Fossil Teeth Reveal Man's Early Reliance on Rainforest Resources (2 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Fossil Teeth Reveal Man's Early Reliance on Rainforest Resources (2 of 4)

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This is Batadomba-lena rock shelter, where the earliest fossil human teeth used in this study were found. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 13, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Patrick Roberts at the University of Oxford in Oxford, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Direct evidence for human reliance on rainforest resources in late Pleistocene Sri Lanka."

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[Credit: Patrick Roberts]

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