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- Archaeology and dental forensic: what’s the relationship?Publication . Guez, Glenn; Guimarães, Maria InêsArchaeology is a science combining numerous skills in a multidisciplinary approach. In the presence of human remains, its objectives are the recovery, identification, and analysis on an anthropological purpose to reconstruct the context of the individual's past lives. One of these approaches is in the forensic medicine sciences whose main purpose is the identification of human bodies through bones and teeth in deteriorated corpses. Archaeology and forensic medicine are therefore two intertwined sciences. The goal of this bibliographical review is to summarize the first steps to reconstruct the biological profile of a person using teeth as an object of study. Beginning by explaining the preservation and the type of the tooth sample, then by assessing the two most important biological factors being the sex and the age. This study does not cover all the existing tooth forensic aspects, but the most used one and the promising methods for archaeological context.