Fig. 1: Growth Lines Inside a Neanderthal Tooth (IMAGE)

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Fig. 1: Growth Lines Inside a Neanderthal Tooth

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Growth lines inside a Neanderthal tooth (left -- diagonally running lines) and on the outside (right -- horizontal curved lines). Counts and measurements of these lines helped to determine that the child was approximately 8-years-old when it died.

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Tanya Smith, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology

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