Increased tooth wear, enamel hypoplasia, and calculus suggest dietary stress during the village’s early role supplying urban Jerusalem, while later improvements reflect growing prosperity.

Horizontal grooves in skeletal teeth (linear enamel hypoplasia) are an indication of physiological stress on an individual in early childhood, between six months and six years of age. Disclaimer ...

I have maintained a long term research program into "enamel hypoplasia"; a methodological tool that is suited to the overwhelming prevalence of teeth in the fossil and prehistoric record. This tool ...