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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Teeth blackening (redirect from Tooth painting)
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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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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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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List of Ice Age characters (redirect from Saber-toothed squirrel)
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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"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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Neanderthal (section Interbreeding with modern humans)
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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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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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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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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Devil's Lair (section Human material)
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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Piranha (section Relationship with humans)
language. It is formed from two words, pirá meaning 'fish' and sainha meaning 'tooth'; the same word is used by Indians to describe a pair of scissors. Another...
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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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Capacocha (section Non-human sacrifice and offerings)
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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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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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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Horse (section Interaction with humans)
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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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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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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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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posture. Hamsters' incisors never stop growing and they have a ‘self-sharpening’ system where the incisors grind against each other while gnawing, which...
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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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is clichéd in its portrayal of life on earth as a slow-motion ballet of tooth and claw....In short, the innovations that made Attenborough's previous...
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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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