Archaeologists Dig Up Gauguin's Molars?

HIVA OA, French Polynesia—Archaeologists have found what may be Paul Gauguin's molars, the Canberra Times reports. The four rotten teeth were discovered at the bottom of a well that Gauguin built on Hiva Oa, on one of the Marquesas Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Gauguin specialist Caroline Boyle-Turner said the teeth most likely belong to the French Post-Impressionist painter, or at least another European, because they are severely decayed. Because Marquese islanders of Gauguin's time did not eat sugar, their teeth did not decay. Gauguin dumped his trash in the well, which sat outside his hut and which was sealed after his death. It was excavated seven years ago, but Boyle-Turner recently gave the first account of objects found there in Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum's annual review, Van Gogh Studies.