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- Title
Aproximación y comparativa en el estudio dental de diversas poblaciones prehistóricas.
- Authors
LEÓN CRISTÓBAL, ALEJANDRO
- Abstract
This paper aims to show, in the first place, the dental morphologic characteristics of the species Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens, Denisovans and Homo floresiensis. And from there, the second principal object is to attain a comparative analysis of such morphologies between the species Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis. Through dental anthropology, dental remains f indings in archeological sites has led and still leads to a significant increase in the amount of information that may be drawn from such human populations. Due to dental anthropology, evidence of diet, oral diseases and pathologies, evolution of the mandible and, therefore, of the size of the cranium and encephalon, even of the individual's body dimension have been extracted. Genetics have proven that some modern populations share ancient genes, present in DNA, with species such as Denisovans, primarily in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Likewise, this paper will adress the phenomena of hybridization in species, an increasingly clear event among species that had a major impact on morphologic traits of these human groups. Lastly, the discovery of species such as Homo floresiensis suggests that evolution took different forms, expressed in the dental remains of Homini and therefore demonstrating that there is still much to be know about human evolution.
- Subjects
SOUTHEAST Asia; OCEANIA; NEANDERTHALS; HUMAN evolution; COMPARATIVE anatomy; DENISOVANS; DENTAL anthropology; PATHOLOGY
- Publication
Cuadernos de Arqueología de la Universidad de Navarra, 2022, Vol 30, p1
- ISSN
1133-1542
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15581/012.30.002