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dentistry-history
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Science Newsscience63 days ago
59,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Molar Shows Evidence of Possible Caries Manipulation
Researchers identified deliberate drilling to treat severe caries in a Neanderthal lower molar found in Chagyrskaya Cave, Russia. The find, published Wednesday in PLOS ONE, pushes back the earliest evidence of dentistry by more than 40,000 years and is the first such case identif…