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Ancient Mexican may have had fangs for dentures

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Posted on: June 14th, 2006
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“A man whose 4,500 year-old skeleton was found in may have worn ceremonial dentures made from wolf or jaguar fangs, in one of the earliest examples of dentistry in the Americas, scientists said on Wednesday.

The skeleton, found buried in volcanic ash beneath a cliff painted with ancient rock art in a remote mountain region of western , dates from around 2,500 B.C. The man was between 28 and 32 years old and stood about 5 feet 1 inch (1.55 metres) tall, said University of Connecticut researchers. “

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