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 ...
Researchers unearthed a 59,000-year-old Neanderthal molar that shows signs of dental surgery, a discovery that pushes back ...
Scientists examining the well-preserved skeleton of Amud 7, a six-month-old Neanderthal from an Israeli cave, report body and ...
The prehistoric hominins “apparently were very adept at what we would consider invasive medicine,” said the anthropologist ...
A hole drilled into a 60,000-year-old molar suggests that Neanderthals practiced complex dental care long before modern ...
Now, new research published in the journal PLOS One indicates that they were capable of complex dental interventions, which ...
For decades, many paleoarchaeologists believed Neanderthals went extinct largely because they just weren’t intelligent enough ...
Neanderthal populations in southern Europe collected shellfish throughout the year, with a marked preference for the colder ...
In 1857, the German anatomist Hermann Schaaffhausen analyzed a human fossil with "an extraordinary form" that he had never ...
Neanderthals had the know-how to identify a tooth infection and the motor skills to drill out the damage, according to a ...