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Nature 440, 755-756 (6 April 2006) | doi:10.1038/440755a; Received 22 November 2005; Accepted 1 March 2006; Published online 5 April 2006
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Palaeontology: Early Neolithic tradition of dentistry
A. Coppa1, L. Bondioli2, A. Cucina3, D. W. Frayer4, C. Jarrige5, J. -F. Jarrige5, G. Quivron5, M. Rossi6, M. Vidale7 & R. Macchiarelli8
Abstract
Flint tips were surprisingly effective for drilling tooth enamel in a prehistoric population.
Abstract
Prehistoric evidence for the drilling of human teeth in vivo has so far been limited to isolated cases from less than six millennia ago1, 2, 3. Here we describe eleven drilled molar crowns from nine adults discovered in a Neolithic graveyard in Pakistan that dates from 7,500–9,000 years ago. These findings provide evidence for a long tradition of a type of proto-dentistry in an early farming culture.
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