Hypodontia of permanent teeth among Middle Palaeolithic hominids: an early case dated to ca. 92 000±5000 years BP at the Qafzeh site
✍ Scribed by Anne-Marie Tillier; Israel Kaffe; Baruch Arensburg; Mario Chech
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 241 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1047-482X
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✦ Synopsis
The analysis of the maxillae and mandible belonging to a Middle Palaeolithic child has provided evidence of the early appearance of a developmental dental anomaly among Homo sapiens. The material came from the Near Eastern site of Qafzeh. In the mandible there was agenesis of the left second premolar and congenital absence of the right could not be totally excluded. Additional analyses including two presumed cases of dental development anomalies within contemporaneous prehistoric populations showed that tooth agenesis also can affect the anterior region of the mandible, and could be clearly separated from ante-mortem tooth loss caused by trauma.