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New hominin dental remains from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)
20 July 2024
In this contribution, we present the context of the findings, describe the morphology of the teeth, and analyze them to assess their identity and taxonomic affiliation.
In the recent years, collaborators of the Tanzania Human Origins Research (THOR) project have recovered two hominin teeth聽during surveys at Olduvai Gorge. In this contribution, we present the context of the findings, describe the morphology of the teeth, and analyze them to assess their identity and taxonomic affiliation. Teeth are also analyzed using synchrotron microtomography (渭CT)-based methods for the first time as far as the Olduvai hominin record is concerned. Here, we provide a description and a morphometric analysis of the new dental remains, suggesting a taxonomic attribution.
Alessandro Riga,聽Thomas W. Davies,聽Beatrice Azzar脿, Giovanni Boschian,聽Costantino Buzi,聽Jackson S. Kimambo,聽Giorgio Manzi,聽Fidelis T. Masao,聽Amon Mgimwa,聽Happiness Nyambo,聽Paul Tafforeau,聽Wilson Jilala,聽Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi, Marco Cherin