The Science and Art of Neandertal Teeth [Slide Show]

The fossilized teeth of the Neandertals are scientifically informative--and pleasing to the eye

Of all the human ancestors represented in the fossil record, Neandertals are the best known. A significant proportion of what scientists have learned about the Neandertals is based on a set of remains that the Croatian paleontologist Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger recovered between 1899 and 1905 from a rock shelter in the town of Krapina, some 60 kilometers north of Zagreb. The Krapina sample dates to between 120,000 and 130,000 years ago, during the Pleistocene epoch, and includes multiple representatives of nearly every bone and tooth of the body.

Early on, Gorjanović-Kramberger took an interest in the teeth from Krapina, noting anomalies such as taurodontism, in which the pulp chamber expands into the roots. First described from the Krapina remains, taurodontism turns out to be common in Neandertals, although not exclusive to them. Since Gorjanović's time, studies of the more than 275 Neandertal teeth from Krapina have yielded key insights into Neandertal life history.

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rchaeologists digging up the remains of Manchester’s grimmest Victorian slum near the new Co-op building have helped Dean Kirby make a surprising discovery – and bring to light a long-forgotten family tragedy ... IT might just be a hole in the ground to any Tom, Dick or Harry passing in the street above. But this was the not-so-sweet home of my long-lost Victorian forefather, William Kirby. He was a farm labourer who fled County Mayo in the west of Ireland following the potato famine and became a fishmonger in ‘Angel Meadow’ – Manchester’s filthiest and most violent slum.

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rchaeologists digging up the remains of Manchester’s grimmest Victorian slum near the new Co-op building have helped Dean Kirby make a surprising discovery – and bring to light a long-forgotten family tragedy ... IT might just be a hole in the ground to any Tom, Dick or Harry passing in the street above. But this was the not-so-sweet home of my long-lost Victorian forefather, William Kirby. He was a farm labourer who fled County Mayo in the west of Ireland following the potato famine and became a fishmonger in ‘Angel Meadow’ – Manchester’s filthiest and most violent slum.

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Archaeologists digging up the remains of Manchester’s grimmest Victorian slum near the new Co-op building have helped Dean Kirby make a surprising discovery – and bring to light a long-forgotten family tragedy ... IT might just be a hole in the ground to any Tom, Dick or Harry passing in the street above. But this was the not-so-sweet home of my long-lost Victorian forefather, William Kirby. He was a farm labourer who fled County Mayo in the west of Ireland following the potato famine and became a fishmonger in ‘Angel Meadow’ – Manchester’s filthiest and most violent slum.

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Archaeologists digging up the remains of Manchester’s grimmest Victorian slum near the new Co-op building have helped Dean Kirby make a surprising discovery – and bring to light a long-forgotten family tragedy ... IT might just be a hole in the ground to any Tom, Dick or Harry passing in the street above. But this was the not-so-sweet home of my long-lost Victorian forefather, William Kirby. He was a farm labourer who fled County Mayo in the west of Ireland following the potato famine and became a fishmonger in ‘Angel Meadow’ – Manchester’s filthiest and most violent slum.

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