“…Activity induced dental modifications (AIDMs) offer evidence on cultural practices and general subsistence economies of ancient societies, together with insights on social distribution of working tasks within the communities. Numerous analyses of prehistoric human samples have detected the use of teeth in the production of diverse cultural items (Bocquentin, ; Bocquentin, Sellier, & Murail, ; Bonfiglioli, Mariotti, Facchini, Belcastro, & Condemi, ; Brown and Molnar, ; Cruwys, Robb, & Smith, ; Eshed, Gopher, & Hershkovitz, ; Frayer and Minozzi, ; Irvine, Thomas, & Dietrich‐Schoop, ; Larsen, ; Larsen, Teaford, & Sandford, ; Lorkiewicz, ; Minozzi, Manzi, Ricci, di Lernia, & Borgognini‐Tarli, ; Molnar, , ; Ravy, Clère, & Puech, ; Tanga, Quintili, Tinarelli, D'anastasio, & Viciano, ). Other examples from the more recent archaeological and ethnographic record contain cases of AIDMs.…”