Marina Martínez de Pinillos, a researcher at the Dental Anthropology Group, presented this CENIEH project at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, held in Reno (Nevada).
Presentation of Ratón Pérez Collection (RP Collection) project. Its objective is to expand and manage this collection of milk teeth for paleoanthropological and forensic research. This project includes the tooth collection campaigns, management of the RP collection, and making it available to the scientific community, and the launch of the Ratón Pérez Collection website.
Gracias a los niños y niñas que han donado sus dientes a través de campañas de recogida realizadas en toda España, la Colección se acerca a las 4.000 piezas dentales, la mayoría de las cuales son caninos e incisivos
The Ratón Pérez collection is the result of a citizen science project that began to take shape in 2014 at the National Centre for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH) in Burgos, through tooth collection campaigns carried out in the framework of the European Researchers' Night.