Microscopic study of milk teeth reveals mystery of death of Iberian culture newborns buried inside homes; the study in the Journal of Archaeological Science
All the people who lived and were buried in Barmaz necropolises during the Neolithic period had the same access to food resources
A new method to calibrate exploration with microcomputed tomography (MicroCT) using dental tissue, that will enable analysis of bone pathology and the variation of mineral density
Neanderthal and modern human children living during the Upper Palaeolithic may have faced similar levels of childhood stress but at different developmental stages
What Bronze Age teeth say about the evolution of the human diet: scientists extract microbiomes from two 4,000 year old teeth at Killuragh Cave
Childhood vitamin D deficiency was likely prevalent during industrialization in England: the deficiency was indicated in the teeth of three-quarters of individuals, especially males
What did people eat in Mesolithic Scandinavia? A new study of the DNA in a chewing gum shows that deer, trout and hazelnuts were on the diet
Vikings in Varnhem, Sweden, suffered from tooth decay: lesions and abrasions on teeth reveal dental problems and attempted treatments
Neanderthals are not the only species whose dentition is characterized by the possession of thin enamel: it was previously found in Homo Antecessor
A widely accepted theory of Native American origins coming from Japan has been attacked in a new scientific study, which shows that the genetics and skeletal biology “simply does not match-up”.