Criterios para conocer la edad de muerte de los fósiles a partir de sus dientes
- Bonmatí, Alejandro
- Lira Garrido, Jaime Ernesto
- Martínez Mendizábal, Ignacio Manuel
ISSN: 1132-9157
Year of publication: 2010
Volume: 18
Issue: 3
Pages: 310-320
Type: Article
More publications in: Enseñanza de las ciencias de la tierra: Revista de la Asociación Española para la Enseñanza de las Ciencias de la Tierra
Abstract
The main stages of Homo sapiens physical development (infancy, childhood, juvenility, adolescence and adulthood) can be delimited using the eruption sequence of the deciduous and permanent teeth. Paleoantropologists take advantage of the regularity in the tooth emergence and replacement pattern to infer the age-at-death of fossil remains that preserve the dentition or part of it. In the present work, we offer some guidelines to develop a workshop using some fossil hominin cranial specimens. This activity aims to present the general public with the Principle of Actualism used by palaeontologists while working with the fossil record.