The Whole Tooth: New Method to Find Biological Sex From a Single Tooth (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

The Whole Tooth: New Method to Find Biological Sex From a Single Tooth

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Tooth of a European-American buried in San Francisco in the 1850s. Teeth are often found in archaeological sites but may not be associated with a complete skeleton. A new technique developed at UC Davis allows archaeologists to find a person's biological sex based on a single tooth, up to at least 7,300 years old.

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Jelmer Eerkens/UC Davis

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