Roughly 59,000 years ago, deep inside a limestone cave in what is now the Altai Mountains of Siberia, a Neanderthal sat with ...
Neanderthals practiced a surprisingly advanced form of dentistry, detecting tooth decay and removing it with stone drills.
A 59,000-year-old Neanderthal tooth discovered in a cave in Siberia shows clear signs of dental surgery with a small stone ...