Scientists Say a 59,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Tooth Shows Evidence of Surgery
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Scientists Say a 59,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Tooth Shows Evidence of Surgery

A 59,000-year-old tooth hints that Neanderthals may have treated infections with stone tools. Long before modern dentistry, Neanderthals may already have understood something crucial about pain: where it came from and how to relieve it. A 59,000-year-old tooth discovered in Siberia contains evidence that one of our extinct relatives may have deliberately drilled into an [...]