- 59,000-year-old tooth offers a rare glimpse into how Neanderthals handled a medical problem CNN —
- Tooth shows cavemen conducted dental surgery thousands of years before anesthetic NY Post —
- Neanderthals treated a dental cavity by drilling into the tooth New Scientist —
- Neanderthals may have drilled out a cavity 59,000 years ago NPR —
- Neanderthal Dentists Treated Cavities With Stone Drills. Yes, Really Gizmodo —
- 'A remarkable achievement': Neanderthals may have practised dentistry ABC News —
- Neanderthal dentist drilled into decayed tooth almost 60,000 years ago Financial Times —
- 59,000-year-old Neanderthal tooth may be oldest evidence of dentistry Scientific American —
- Neanderthals went to the dentist (really) The Economist —
- Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago Ars Technica —
- Neanderthals weren't so stupid after all! Study reveals how caveman 'dentists' used sophisticated stone drills to treat cavities 60,000 years ago Daily Mail —
- Neanderthals used stone drills to treat cavities 59,000 years ago, tooth suggests The Guardian —
- The first dentist: How a single tooth changes what we thought about Neanderthals Haaretz —
Neanderthal
Extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago
Neanderthals are an extinct group of archaic humans who inhabited Europe and Western and Central Asia during the Middle to Late Pleistocene. Neanderthal extinction occurred roughly 40,000 years ago with the immigration of modern humans (Cro-Magnons), but Neanderthals in Gibraltar may have persisted for thousands of years longer.
Also known as...
Homo neanderthalensis and Neanderthals
Neanderthal dentistry discovered