Human tooth sharpening is the practice of manually sharpening the teeth, usually the front incisors. Filed teeth are customary in various cultures. Many...

being a girl to becoming a woman. Human tooth sharpening Teeth blackening Humphrey, Louise T.; Bocaege, Emmy (2008). "Tooth Evulsion in the Maghreb: Chronological...

with the intent to encourage intentional scarring or keloiding Human tooth sharpening – generally used to have the appearance of some sort of animal....

groups possessed different tooth patterns, which aids with the classification of fossils. Most extant mammals including humans are diphyodonts, i.e. they...

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...

blackened teeth differentiated humans from animals. Teeth blackening is often done in conjunction with traditions of tooth sharpening and dental evulsion, as...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

humans. However, it has been hypothesised, based on the growth rates of teeth and tooth enamel, that Neanderthals matured faster than modern humans,...

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...

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...

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...

sketched with obsidian and then deepened and finished with a worn shark tooth. The remaining hair-line cuts were then either errors, design conventions...

Choppers were used in equal amounts for woodworking, presumably for sharpening spears, and meat processing. However, choppers were used for many different...

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...

in Western Australia. A review of tooth specimens of kangaroo species collected at the site discovered a human tooth was included and the archaeological...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

journey, possibly describing a group of Mentawai people (who practice tooth sharpening), living on an island between India and Sumatra: Fifteen days after...

condensational, condensative, condense, dense, density, nondense, superdense dent- tooth Latin dens, dentis bident, bidental, dandelion, dental, dentary, dentate...

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...

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"....

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...

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...

posture. Hamsters' incisors never stop growing and they have a ‘self-sharpening’ system where the incisors grind against each other while gnawing, which...