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    Human tooth sharpening is the practice of manually sharpening the teeth, usually the front incisors. Filed teeth are customary in various cultures. Many...
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    being a girl to becoming a woman. Human tooth sharpening Teeth blackening Humphrey, Louise T.; Bocaege, Emmy (2008). "Tooth Evulsion in the Maghreb: Chronological...
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  • with the intent to encourage intentional scarring or keloiding Human tooth sharpening – generally used to have the appearance of some sort of animal....
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    groups possessed different tooth patterns, which aids with the classification of fossils. Most extant mammals including humans are diphyodonts, i.e. they...
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    A tooth (pl.: teeth) is a hard, calcified structure found in the jaws (or mouths) of many vertebrates and used to break down food. Some animals, particularly...
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    blackened teeth differentiated humans from animals. Teeth blackening is often done in conjunction with traditions of tooth sharpening and dental evulsion, as...
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  • New Zealand, Dr. R.G. Every, made the claim that human tooth grinding was actually tooth sharpening, The biological relevance of this behaviour and its...
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  • Saw (section Toothed saws)
    blade, wire, or chain with a hard toothed edge used to cut through material. Various terms are used to describe toothed and abrasive saws. Saws began as...
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  • all saber-toothed cats, Lenny is a scimitar-toothed cat as stated in the book Ice Age: The Essential Guide. Runar was the chieftain of the human tribe shown...
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    humans. However, it has been hypothesised, based on the growth rates of teeth and tooth enamel, that Neanderthals matured faster than modern humans,...
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  • "Sliver tooth" saws have teeth on both sides but they have different profiles. The (usual) front side have teeth with a regular style tooth. The back...
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  • to commercially sharpen a knife (producing a hollow grind), but an individual may then sharpen the same knife with a natural sharpening stone or an even...
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    Shaped like a toothed cylinder. Saw sharpening files are usually single cut to deliver a smooth finish. They are suited to sharpening saw blades and...
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    Elephant (redirect from Elephant tooth)
    it and tusks were sometimes covered with sharpened iron or brass. Trained elephants would attack both humans and horses with their tusks. They might have...
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    sketched with obsidian and then deepened and finished with a worn shark tooth. The remaining hair-line cuts were then either errors, design conventions...
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    Choppers were used in equal amounts for woodworking, presumably for sharpening spears, and meat processing. However, choppers were used for many different...
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    was a girl estimated to be between 13 and 15 years old (based upon her tooth development), popularly referred to as "Juanita" or "The Ampato Ice Maiden...
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  • in Western Australia. A review of tooth specimens of kangaroo species collected at the site discovered a human tooth was included and the archaeological...
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    unidentified tool, and an antler tool which might have been used for sharpening arrow points. There was also an unfinished yew longbow that was 1.82 m...
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    million-year-old infant tooth from Barranco León, Orce, Spain, these were the oldest human fossils known from Europe, although human activity on the continent...
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    changes as the horse ages; they develop a distinct wear pattern, changes in tooth shape, and changes in the angle at which the chewing surfaces meet. This...
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    were found to have undergone the removal of one or more deciduous canine tooth buds. In an older age group (3–7 years of age), 72% of the 111 children...
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    Cynocephaly (category Mythological human hybrids)
    journey, possibly describing a group of Mentawai people (who practice tooth sharpening), living on an island between India and Sumatra: Fifteen days after...
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  • Beak (section Egg tooth)
    mandible, with a corresponding notch on the lower mandible. They use this "tooth" to sever their prey's vertebrae fatally or to rip insects apart. Some kites...
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  • condensational, condensative, condense, dense, density, nondense, superdense dent- tooth Latin dens, dentis bident, bidental, dandelion, dental, dentary, dentate...
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    titanium. Depleted uranium is favored for the penetrator because it is self-sharpening and flammable. On impact with a hard target, such as an armored vehicle...
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  • rallying round the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, and was sharpening his "beak and claws" to disembowel "the curs who will bark and yelp"....
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  • and working undercover. Guest appearance of DI Ben Jones 114 4 "Red in Tooth & Claw" Steve Hughes Lisa Holdsworth 18 January 2017 (2017-01-18) August–September...
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    early humans outside the African continent. At Kozarnika, in the ground layers, dated to 1.6-1.4 Ma, archaeologists have discovered a human molar tooth, lower...
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  • Cat-Cat Fruit: Model Saber-Tooth Tiger enables him to transform into a saber-toothed tiger or a saber-toothed tiger-human hybrid. Who's-Who is voiced...
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