New hominin dental remains from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)

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 microtomography (μCT)-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.

New hominin dental remains from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)
Alessandro Riga, Thomas W. Davies, Beatrice Azzarà, Giovanni Boschian, Costantino Buzi, Jackson S. Kimambo, Giorgio Manzi, Fidelis T. Masao, Amon Mgimwa, Happiness Nyambo, Paul Tafforeau, Wilson Jilala, Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi, Marco Cherin