A Mesolithic case of odontoma?
An ovoid yellowish object has been discovered in an Early Mesolithic collective burial located in the Meuse Basin: the Autours rockshelter (Prov. of Namur, Belgium). It was found among commingled hand and foot bones in a small crack of the rockshelter wall. Mineralogical, radiological and microscopic analyses showed that it was most probably a complex odontoma.
Polet
Caroline
C
Laboratory of Anthropology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, rue Vautier 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium. caroline.polet@sciencesnaturelles.be
Louryan
Stéphane
S
Werquin
Jean-Pierre
JP
D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D006882:Hydroxyapatites / Q000032:analysis; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D009810:Odontoma / Q000737:chemistry / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000266:history*; D010161:Paleodontology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D006882:Hydroxyapatites