Interproximal grooves on the Middle Pleistocene hominin teeth from Yiyuan, Shandong Province: New evidence for tooth-picking behavior from eastern China

Quaternary International

Volumn 354, Issue , 2014, Pages 162-168

  Sun, Chengkai ^a,b,c   Xing, Song ^b,c   Martín Francés, Laura ^d   Bae, Christopher ^e   Liu, Liqun ^a   Wei, Guangbiao ^f   Liu, Wu ^b  

^a Shandong Museum   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^d CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f China Three Gorges Museum   (China)

Author keywords

Eastern China; Homo erectus; Interproximal groove; Tooth picking behavior; Yiyuan

Indexed keywords

HOMO ERECTUS;

EID: 84920190681     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.03.008     Document Type: Article

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