Modern Human
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Object Details
- Discipline
- Anthropology
- Region
- South American Region
- Description
- This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
- White plastic cast of a modern human skull. The mandible is attached but can move. There are grooves near the roots of the upper premolars on both the left and right side. Some of the molars are missing from both the maxilla and mandible. There is tooth wear, also called attrition, on the front teeth of both the maxilla and mandible.
- Number of objects in this record
- 1
- Record Last Modified
- 16 Oct 2020
- USNM Number
- EO400968
- Object Type
- Education and Outreach collections
- Is this real?
- No, it's a cast.
- Life Stage
- Adult
- Material
- Plastic, Paint
- Sex
- Male
- Collecting Locality
- South America
- Scientific Name
- Homo sapiens
- See more items in
- Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
- Taxonomy
- Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Tetrapoda, Mammalia, Theria, Primates, Hominidae
- Topic
- Education & Outreach
- Record ID
- nmnheducation_11049168
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/38e8db1db-725c-403f-8e2c-d747208ef6ed
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