Two- and three-dimensional evaluation of dental tissues has become routine in human taxonomic studies over the years. However, most of our knowledge of the variability of enamel and dentin dimensions of the human evolutionary lineage comes from the study of the permanent dentition, and in particular the molars. This leads to a biased view of the variability of these traits. Because of their early formation and rapid development, deciduous teeth allow for more simplified inferences regarding the...

Personal identification of an unknown deceased individual is crucial in our society for both legal and humanitarian reasons. Therefore, human skeletal collections are an important source of information for physical anthropologists to establish and develop rigorous methods to obtain reliable data on the individual under study. A few dental and osteological reference samples exist (Dayal et al., 2009; Voisin et al., 2012), but due to the current low early mortality rate, none of them contain large...

El objetivo de este informe es presentar la gran colección de dientes deciduos de niños identificados que se encuentra en el Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) en Burgos, España.