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Nature 440, 755-756 (5 April 2006) | doi:10.1038/440755a;

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Palaeontology: Early Neolithic tradition of dentistry

Prehistoric evidence for the drilling of human teeth in vivo has so far been limited to isolated cases from less than six millennia ago. 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.

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