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Dental Evidence in Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Humphrey Humphreys
Humphrey Humphreys*
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
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Extract

Teeth are the most indestructible of all organic structures. Even in life 98 percent of their enamel is hard mineral matter and this dental durability has resulted in many extinct animals being known only by the fossil forms of their teeth. That is why the vocabulary of the vertebrate palaeontologist abounds in the names of species and orders ending in the Greek root ‘odont’.

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Research Article
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Antiquity , Volume 25 , Issue 97 , March 1951 , pp. 16 - 18
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1951

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