A chip off the early hominin tooth: Researchers develop method for determining the diet of our early ancestors
Sunday, September 19, 2010 - 23:28
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Were our early mammalian ancestors vegetarians, vegans or omnivores? It's difficult for anthropologists to determine the diet of early mammalians because current fossil analysis provides too little information. But a new method that measures the size of chips in tooth fossils can help determine the kinds of foods these early humans consumed.