Non‐Carious Cervical Lesions in Wild Primates: Implications for Understanding Toothpick Grooves and Abfraction Lesions
Several attrition/abrasion NCCLs resembled or have characteristic features of "toothpick grooves" known from hominin samples, suggesting the need for further comparative analyses between human and non-human primates. The absence of abfraction lesions supports the view that abfraction may be related to contemporary human behaviors. These findings emphasize the value of non-human primate data for interpreting NCCLs in both contemporary and ancient human populations.
Authors
- Carolina Loch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8949-4008)
- Anderson T. Hara (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9822-6064)
- Mugino O. Kubo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7748-7377)
- Luca Fiorenza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7110-3398)
- Kristin L. Krueger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8132-7675)
- Kazuha Hirata
- Ian Towle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0939-7222)
- Joel D. Irish (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7857-8847)
- Matthew R. Borths (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3840-5308)
Institutions
- Indiana University Health (US)
- Duke University (US)
- Loyola University Chicago (US)
- University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)
- Kyoto University (JP)
- Discovery Institute (US)
- Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (AU)
- Inuyama Chuo Hospital (JP)
- Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (US)
- Monash University (AU)
- Liverpool John Moores University (GB)
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
- University of Otago (NZ)
Publication Details
- Journal
- American Journal of Biological Anthropology
- Published
- 2025-09-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.70132
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 24.82
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Monash University
- Liverpool John Moores University