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Alessia Nava1,2, Federico Lugli3,4, Matteo Romandini5,6

  • 1DANTE-Diet and Ancient Technology Laboratory, Department of Maxillo-Facial Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy; alessia.nava@uniroma1.it federico.lugli6@unibo.it marco.peresani@unife.it w.muller@em.uni-frankfurt.de stefano.benazzi@unibo.it.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|November 3, 2020
PubMed
Summary

Neanderthals weaned their infants similarly to modern humans, around 5 to 6 months old. This finding, based on dental analysis, suggests comparable early life metabolic demands between Neanderthals and modern humans.

Keywords:
Neanderthal ontogenydental histologylife historiesnursing strategyspatially resolved chemical analyses

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