A significant number of Middle to Late Pleistocene sites contain primarily (and sometimes
only) deciduous teeth (eg, Grotta del Cavallo, Mezmaiskaya, Blombos). Not surprisingly …

The aims of this study were to investigate the effect of allometry on the shape of dm2 and M1
crown outlines and to examine whether the trajectory and magnitude of scaling are shared …

The application of microtomography (mCT) to dental morphological studies has unveiled a
new source of palaeobiological information, particularly in the analysis of the internal …

Dental analyses of the Holocene Khoesan populations of southern Africa can provide insight
into the biological evolution of an anthropologically important people. There have been …

The determination of the precise position of permanent first and second modern human
molars, following standard tooth identification criteria, is often difficult because of their …

Iranian archaeology has had a keen interest in exploring unexplained events occurring
during the 5th to the 2nd millennium BC on the Central Iranian Plateau. This is represented …

As discussed in 3.6 above, the study was divided into two phases. Phase I was carried out,
a) to test the “inputs” to the analyses to see if the qualitative diagnostics of teeth from …

Dental anthropology utilizes information obtained from the teeth of either skeletal remains of
prehistoric or modern human populations in order to reach for conclusions regarding various …