Archaeologists have found a hole in a 59,000-year-old tooth, which they say was drilled to treat a painful cavity. The find ...
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Neanderthals had the intelligence and skills to figure out how to deal with cavities with a stone drill
In 2016, a 59,000-year-old lower second molar tooth from a Neanderthal was found in Chagyrskaya Cave in the Altai Mountains ...
A Neanderthal tooth shows clear signs of human intervention to treat bacterial decay, showing that the earliest dentistry ...
Scientists dug up a Paleolithic tooth that shows signs that these hominins may have been capable of executing a precise ...
Molar found in Siberia features deep hole that appears to show earliest known evidence of dental treatment ...
Researchers unearthed a 59,000-year-old Neanderthal molar that shows signs of dental surgery, a discovery that pushes back ...
The prehistoric hominins “apparently were very adept at what we would consider invasive medicine,” said the anthropologist ...
We now know that Neanderthals both had the knowledge to identify a tooth infection and the fine motor skills to drill out the ...
The molar showed that the Neanderthal who underwent the dental procedure was an adult, though the researchers do not know the ...
In a study published in the journal PLOS One, researchers from the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography ...
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