The team, composed of Italian and German researchers, analyzed two deciduous teeth from the prehistoric sites of Riparo Bombrini in Western Ligurian Alps and Grotta di Fumane in Western Lessini Mountains, northern Italy.
The teeth, a deciduous incisor and an upper deciduous incisor, were found in 1976 and 1992, respectively but so far it had been impossible to establish their origins.
"Today, it was possible thanks to new technologies and digital methods such as ancient DNA and high-resolution computed tomography as well as radiocarbon dating," the team leader Stefano Benazzi, a physical anthropologist of the University of Bologna, told Xinhua news agency on Friday.
By Ruchi Singh
reporter
Park Sae-jin
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