2024-2025

Riga A., Davies T.W., Azzarà B., Boschian G., Buzi C., Kimambo J.S., Manzi G., Masao F.T., Mgimwa A., Nyambo H., Tafforeau P., Jilala W., Moggi-Cecchi J., Cherin M. (2024) Journal of Human Evolution 193, 103556.
NEW HOMININ DENTAL REMAINS FROM OLDUVAI GORGE (TANZANIA)

ABSTRACT

In the recent years, collaborators of the Tanzania Human Origins Research (THOR) project have recovered two hominin teeth during surveys at Olduvai Gorge. In this contribution, we present the context of the findings, describe the morphology of the teeth, and analyze them to assess their identity and taxonomic affiliation. Teeth are also analyzed using synchrotron micro-tomography-based methods for the first time as far as the Olduvai hominin record is concerned. Here, we provide a description and a morphometric analysis of the new dental remains, suggesting a taxonomic attribution.