Toothpicking in early Homo OH 62 from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania): An indirect evidence of intensive meat consumption?

2020/04/01 by Almudena Estalrrich, José Antonio Alarcón, Antonio Rosas · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Primate Behavior and Ecology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102769

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Citations

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Discussions

• For #FossilFriday, here's an image of high-resolution dental casts of the OH 62 Homo habilis individual, showing the grooves that this individual made using a toothpick for many years. From Almudena [bsky, 7 points, 0 comments]