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Dental Microwear Analysis and Australopithecines
This is pretty cool. Researchers examined several species of monkey teeth in order to determine the microwear patterns produced by a variety of different diets. They then turned their attention to the...
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A New Method of Determining Age From Teeth
This is way cool! The new technique, developed by researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, determines the amount of carbon-14 in tooth...
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Neanderthal Teeth: How Did They Grow?
The above is a human tooth. If you look closely you can see faint grooves running horizontally across it’s surface. These grooves are called perikymata and represent growth. More specifically they...
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Viking Teeth
According to New Scientist VIKING warriors may have filed deep grooves into their teeth to indicate class or military rank. From the article: Caroline Arcini of Sweden’s National Heritage Board...
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