fossils

Ancient Plaque Reveals Details About Our Ancestors’ Lives

There’s a surprising amount of information stored in the hardened plaque, or calculus, between...

Ancient Plaque Reveals Exotic Diets 3,700 Years Ago

A study of ancient proteins in human plaque has revealed that oriental elements and...

Ancient Enamel Reveals Ancestors’ Role in Human Family Tree

Proteins embedded in 800,000-year-old dental enamel have revealed the position of Homo antecessor in...

Ancient Humans Consumed Hard Foods Without Damaging Their Teeth

Hard plant foods may have made up a larger part of early human ancestors’...

Teeth Indicate Gender Equality in Ancient Scandinavian Society

The Scandinavian countries’ culture of equality between the sexes may go back a long...

Ancient Teeth Reveal a New Evolutionary Cousin

An international team of researchers used uranium series analysis to date teeth and bone...

10,000-Year-Old Chewing Gum Reveals Early Scandinavian DNA

The first human beings who settled in Scandinavia more than 10,000 years ago left...

Ancient Ancestor Shares Modern Dental Development

A relative of modern humans that lived at least 104,000 years ago in northern...

Tooth Fossils Reveal 2.4 Million Year Old Diets

A recent examination of fossilized dental enamel has revealed that the early hominins Homo...

Tooth Fossils Reveal Lead Exposure Among Neanderthals

Using evidence found in teeth from two Neanderthals from southeastern France, researchers from the...