Earliest evidence for invasive mitigation of dental caries by Neanderthals

• Alisa V. Zubova,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

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• Lydia V. Zotkina ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: lidiazotkina@gmail.com (LVZ); olsenj@arizona.edu (JWO)

  Affiliation Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1912-3882

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• John W. Olsen ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lidiazotkina@gmail.com (LVZ); olsenj@arizona.edu (JWO)

  Affiliations Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5295-7451

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• Alexander M. Kulkov,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Research Centre for X-ray Diffraction Studies, Saint Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

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• Vyacheslav G. Moiseyev,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

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• Anna A. Malyutina,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0964-2611

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• Roman V. Davydov,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

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• Sergey V. Markin,

  Roles Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

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• Eugene A. Maksimovskiy,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1555-2719

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• Pavel V. Chistyakov,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

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• Andrey I. Krivoshapkin,

  Roles Supervision, Validation

  Affiliations Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, Archeology and Paleoecology of Stone Age in Central Asia (APSACA), Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5327-3438

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• Ksenia A. Kolobova

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, Archeology and Paleoecology of Stone Age in Central Asia (APSACA), Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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