The Person Behind the Teeth (2025)

This project aims to answer the question, Can an individual’s teeth be used to profile who they were in life? Qualitative and quantitative data taken from a specimen found in a quarry in Louisville, NY, and now stored in the State University of New York at Potsdam’s Biological Anthropology Laboratory, was used to create a biological profile, scoring for three traits: ancestry, sex, and age. Analysis suggests that the specimen to be a European male that was already into their adulthood at the time of death. Police officials who initially discovered the specimen in a working sand quarry believe the remains of this individual come from an unknown disturbed grave from the time of the land’s previous owners.