“Given that there are only a handful of human fossils from Upper Paleolithic sites in the Mediterranean region,” Christian Tryon, University of Connecticut professor of anthropology told UConn Today, “I knew we had something exciting.”
Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science newsChristian Tryon, a professor of anthropology at the University of Connecticut, knew stone tools, but he didn’t know teeth.
He was looking at a photograph of just that, ancient dentition recovered from a decades-old archaeological site in Lebanon. The photograph had come from the papers of a close associate of Rev. J. Franklin Ewing, the original expedition leader.At first, Tryon thought the teeth belonged to the remains of an ancient child named “Egbert” by Ewing, bones long considered lost.
Tryon showed the photograph and others to his research partner, Shara Bailey, director of the Center for the Study of Human Origins at New York University. Expert in teeth, she picked up on subtle differences in these, which must have come from two individuals, according to anTryon and Bailey have tried to piece together whatever evidence they can of the ill-fated excavation, which dug down through 75 feet of sediment at the stone shelter site and uncovered millions of artifacts and fossils.
By looking at the images available – including radiographs of the first child’s teeth – Tryon and Bailey estimated the children to be between 7 and 8 years old, based on their dental development. They were likely
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