Estimating the sex of the youngest individuals from Sima de los Huesos via dentition

Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - 08:30 in Health & Medicine

thanks to the analysis of 32 dental pieces using micro-computed tomography a team led by Cecilia García Campos, a researcher in the Dental Anthropology Group at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, has estimated the sex of at least 15 individuals from the population of Sima de los Huesos site in the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain). The results are published in the Journal of Human Evolution.

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