Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - The Modified Teeth of Sinanthropus officinalis: Evidence of Animal Process
AU  - Puech PF
AU  - Puech S
Y1  - 1991
VL  - 29
IS  - 3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 175
EP  - 179
KW  - Sinanthropus
KW  - Gouge mark
KW  - Animal process
N2  - 
N2  - The activity of scavenging animals in an important factor affecting the distribution, preservation and morphology of bone, SEM was used to distinguish surface wear patterns of Peking man collected by Zdansky at Zhoukoudian by comparison with other Sinanthropus teeth from Southern China. With tooth marks of the porcupine, a species that accumulates bones in caves, the hominid teeth points to one agent of accumulation of the Sinanthropus fossil assemblage.
ER  -