Fossil tooth of a sambar deer (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Fossil tooth of a sambar deer

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Fossil tooth of a sambar deer, from which a tooth enamel sample was taken for the zinc isotope analysis. This species of deer is still found today in Southeast Asia, and Laos specifically.

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MPI f. Evolutionary Anthropology

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The image may only be used in connection with reporting on the article/research by Bourgon et al. (2021).

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