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Journal of Human Evolution xxx (2012) 1 e10 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Journal of Human Evolution journal homepage: www.els /locate/jhevol Tooth wear, Neanderthal facial morphology and the anterior dental loading hypothesis Anna F. Clement a, *, Simon W. Hillson a, Leslie C. Aiello b a Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, UK b Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc., 470 Park Avenue South, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10016, USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The Anterior Dental Loading Hypothesis states that the unique Neanderthal facial and dental anatomy Received 3 November 2009 was an adaptive response to the regular application of heavy forces resulting from both the masticatory Accepted 10 November 2011 and cultural use of the anterior teeth. Heavy anterior tooth wear frequently observed in Neanderthal specimens is cited as a main source of evidence for heavy forces being applied to these teeth. From this, it Keywords: might be predicted that the wear shown on the anterior teeth of Neanderthals would greatly exceed that Paleolithic of the posterior teeth and that this differential would be greater than in other hominins with different Homo facial morphologies. Inuit Anterior dentition In this paper, a new me