Middle Stone Age human teeth from Magubike rockshelter, Iringa Region, Tanzania.

ABSTRACT: In 2006, six isolated hominin teeth were excavated from Middle Stone Age (MSA) deposits at the Magubike rockshelter in southern Tanzania. They comprise two central incisors, one lateral incisor, one canine, one third premolar, and one fourth premolar. All are fully developed and come from the maxilla. None of the teeth are duplicated, so they may represent a single individual. While there is some evidence of post-depositional alteration, the morphology of these teeth clearly shares features with anatomically modern Homo sapiens. Both metric and non-metric traits are compared to those from other African and non-African dental remains. The degree of biological relatedness between eastern and southern African Stone Age hunter-gatherers has long been a subject of interest, and several characte

SUBMITTER: Willoughby PR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6067719 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature