Dr. Sara Juengst, PhD
Sara L. Juengst, PhD, is a bioarchaeologist who studies how socio-economic changes impacted past human groups in terms of health, diet and kinship. Dr. Juengst recently received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work mainly focuses on the Andean highlands of Peru and Bolivia, but she has also worked in the United States and Canada. Dr. Juengst's research has been funded by national organizations such as National Geographic and Sigma Xi. Using skeletal and dental analyses to explore the past, she has written several articles concerning dental health and past medical intervention, including “Three Trepanned Skulls from the Copacabana Peninsula, Bolivia, 800 BC - AD 200” published in the International Journal of Paleopathology
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The Top Things We Can Learn From Ancient Teeth
April 29th 2015In the modern era, teeth are important for people to take care for many reasons, including general health, function and, of course, a welcoming smile. For archaeologists and other people interested in the past, teeth are important as they act as portals into past diets, food preparation, family relationships and childhood health.
