Toothpicking and Periodontal Disease in a Neanderthal Specimen from Cova Foradà Site (Valencia, Spain)

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Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Lozano, Marina ^a,b   Subirà, Maria Eulàlia ^c,d   Aparicio, José ^e   Lorenzo, Carlos ^a,b   Gómez Merino, Gala ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d MINOA SL Arqueologia i Serveis   (Spain)

^e Secció d'Estudis Arqueològics Valencians   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUTH HYGIENE; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY THERAPEUTIC DEVICE; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; SPAIN; TOOTH PAIN; TOOTHPICK;

ANIMALS; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAXILLA; NEANDERTHALS; PERIODONTAL DISEASES; SPAIN; TOOTH;

EID: 84885828734     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076852     Document Type: Article

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