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Beeswax as Dental Filling on a Neolithic Human Tooth

Evidence of prehistoric dentistry has been limited to a few cases, the most ancient dating back to the Neolithic. Here we report a 6500-year-old human mandible from Slovenia whose left canine crown bears the traces of a filling with beeswax. The use of different analytical techniques, including sync...

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Autores principales: Bernardini, Federico, Tuniz, Claudio, Coppa, Alfredo, Mancini, Lucia, Dreossi, Diego, Eichert, Diane, Turco, Gianluca, Biasotto, Matteo, Terrasi, Filippo, De Cesare, Nicola, Hua, Quan, Levchenko, Vladimir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3446997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23028670
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0044904