This paper compares the dentition of two samples of populations which lived in the same
sites of Western Liguria (Italy) during the late phases of a hunting and gathering economy
and at the beginning of agriculture respectively. The characteristics considered include
metrics, pathology and wear. The older sample dates back to the Late Epigravettian (X-IX
millennium BC), while the group of early farmers belongs mostly to the Middle Neolithic (IV
millennium BC). The Neolithic group, conforming to the trend generally observed in human�…