For the second year, we are carrying an archaeological excavation, coordinated by Prof. Stefano Benazzi, at Torre di Uluzzo near Lecce, in Southern Italy. We are looking at Middle and Upper Palaeolithic deposits with a a focus on the Uluzzian culture, that we still do not know if it was made by Neanderthals or by Homo sapiens.
Were Neanderthal’s teeth truly adapted to resist to heavy mechanical loads? Our new study published in the Journal of Human Evolution
Our new study on the biomechanics of Neanderthal’s anterior dentition has been recently published in the Journal of Human Evolution. Neanderthal anterior teeth are very