The Upper Paleolithic inhabitants of Manot Cave: the dental perspective
Author(s): Rachel Sarig; Ofer Marder; Omry Barzilai; Bruce Latimer; Israel Hershkovitz
Year: 2017
Summary
The study on the partial calvarium discovered at Manot Cave, Western Galilee, Israel (dated to 54.7 ± 5.5 kyr BP, Hershkovitz et al. 2015), revealed close morphological affinity with recent African skulls as well as with early Upper Paleolithic European skulls, but less so with earlier anatomically modern humans from the Levant (e.g., Skhul). The ongoing fieldwork at the Manot Cave has resulted in the discovery of several new hominin teeth. These include a lower incisor (I1), a right lower first deciduous molar (dm1), a left upper first deciduous molar (dm1) and an upper second molar (M2) all from area C (>32 kyr) and a right upper second molar (M2) from area E (>36 kyr). The current study presents metric and morphological data on the new Manot Cave teeth. These new data combined with our already existing knowledge on the Manot skull may provide an important insight on the Upper Paleolithic population of the Levant, its origin and dietary habits.
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The Upper Paleolithic inhabitants of Manot Cave: the dental perspective. Rachel Sarig, Ofer Marder, Omry Barzilai, Bruce Latimer, Israel Hershkovitz. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. 2017 ( tDAR id: 431657)
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Keywords
General
Dental Attrition
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Dental Morphology
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Geometric Morphometric
Geographic Keywords
West Asia
Spatial Coverage
min long: 25.225; min lat: 15.115 ; max long: 66.709; max lat: 45.583 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 15778