In this episode, Christopher Aris (University of Kent) shares the work he is doing on dental development. By accessing tooth enamel in the permanent teeth of people in the past, Chris examines how enamel secretion rates (or growth rates) changed between Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Early and Late Medieval, and clinical modern samples.

Besides getting into the nitty-gritty of what dental studies and destructive sampling involves, we also talk about the challenges of this work and a project Chris did for his Master’s creating a method of determining sex from juvenile skeletal remains from permanent molars.

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