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Author Message   Sidescraper_gal hunter Username: Sidescraper_gal Post Number: 541 Registered: 7-2004 Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:14 am:        All: Julien Riel-Salvatore has a nice little find about the dental hygiene of Spanish Neandertals c. 63,000 bp. It's right here: http://averyremoteperiodindeed.blogspot.com/2007/09/clean-toothed-neanderthals.html He says, and I"ve read the article he quotes, that "toothpicking" goes back to about 2myr, with the rise, apparently of H.erectus. But he has some other pertinent comments about what this "toothpicking" actually means for language capacity. Which, judging by the evidence, Neandertals seem to have had. Anne G

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