Tissue proportions and enamel thickness distribution in the early Middle Pleistocene human deciduous molars from Tighenif, Algeria;Proportions des tissus et distribution de l'épaisseur de l'émail des molaires déciduales humaines du début du Pléistocène moyen de Tighenif, Algérie

Comptes Rendus - Palevol

Volumn 9, Issue 6-7, 2010, Pages 341-348

  Zanolli, Clément ^a   Bayle, Priscilla ^a,b   Macchiarelli, Roberto ^a,c  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Early Middle Pleistocene; Enamel thickness; Human deciduous molars; Microtomography; Tighenif; Tissue proportions

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOSSIL RECORD; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HUMAN EVOLUTION; NEANDERTHAL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PLEISTOCENE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ALGERIA; EUROPE;

HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS;

EID: 78649448291     PISSN: 16310683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2010.07.019     Document Type: Article

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