Cavemen conducted dental surgery tens of thousands of years before anesthetics, reveals new research. Neanderthal dentists ...
59,000 years ago in what’s now southwestern Siberia, a Neanderthal had a toothache. It must have been a doozy because they ...
A battered molar from Chagyrskaya Cave in Siberia may preserve the earliest known evidence of invasive dental treatment — performed not by modern humans, but by a Neanderthal. A new study suggests ...
About 59,000 years ago, a Neanderthal suffered from an awful toothache caused by a deep cavity in one of the molars on the lower jaw. That ​tooth has now been discovered inside a Siberian cave, ...
Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.