In this work, we experimentally tested the effectiveness of horse teeth as retouchers. To perform this study, we used 41 modern horse teeth to shape flakes of various raw materials by applying different techniques. The resulting use-wear traces were analysed using high-resolution methods and then...
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A STUDY of the ancestral cousins of modern horses has upset conventional views on what teeth can tell us about the diet of extinct animals. It was assumed that grazing animals such as horses had high-crowned teeth with enamel ridges, for eating grass. The new research suggests that this was...
Nucleotide sequence data indicate that the 'kakuten' is very similar to and has a close phylogenetic relationship to a horse; thus, we conclude that kakuten' artefacts are fashioned from the teeth of a horse.Hironaga KakoiMasahiko KurosawaHiroshi TsunekiThe Journal of Gemmology...