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Neanderthal dentists used stone drills to treat cavities nearly 60,000 years ago, ancient molar suggests
- May 13, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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Neanderthals had the know-how to identify a tooth infection and the motor skills to drill out the damage, according to a study published May 13, 2026, in the open-access journal PLOS One by Alisa Zubova of Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences (Kunstkamera), St. Petersburg, and colleagues.
Originally published at Phys.org