- Project title
- Neanderthal masticatory biomechanics
- Description of the project
- Investigate the ingestion and mastication of recent humans and fossil hominins such as Neanderthals in a biomechanical framework. Due to their good preservational status, La Ferrassie 1, La Quina H5 and H18 are important specimens to include. Micro-CT data allows to segment individual teeth and to model the structures of the skull including sinuses and cortical and trabecular bone. These data are then subjected to biomechanical simulations using Finite Element Analysis.
Works done by the platform AST-RX
