A reassessment of the Neanderthal teeth from Taddeo cave (southern Italy)

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 377-387

  Benazzi, Stefano ^a   Viola, Bence ^a,b   Kullmer, Ottmar ^c   Fiorenza, Luca ^c,d   Harvati, Katerina ^e   Paul, Tobias ^a   Gruppioni, Giorgio ^f   Weber, Gerhard W ^a   Mallegni, Francesco ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^e Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoecology   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dental remains; Dental tissue proportions; Enamel thickness; Micro Computed tomography; Middle paleolithic; Virtual reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ENAMEL; FOSSIL; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; NEANDERTHAL; PALEOLITHIC; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ITALY;

EID: 80052312651     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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