A 59,000-year-old Neandertal molar unearthed in Siberia was drilled with a stone tool – the earliest evidence of primitive ...
59,000 years ago in what’s now southwestern Siberia, a Neanderthal had a toothache. It must have been a doozy because they ...
Cavemen conducted dental surgery tens of thousands of years before anesthetics, reveals new research. Neanderthal dentists ...
The authors of the study, from the Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Science, first discovered the tooth as part ...
Learn how researchers recreated a 59,000-year-old Neanderthal dental procedure and uncovered evidence that ancient humans may ...
Neanderthals had the know-how to identify a tooth infection and the motor skills to drill out the damage, according to a ...