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A 59,000-Year-Old Tooth Reveals that Neanderthals Performed Dental Surgery without Anesthesia and with Stones
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In the cave of Chagyrsskaya, located in southern Siberia, archaeologists dug up a molar a decade ago that belonged to a Neanderthal of 59,000 years ago. The piece caught his attention because it had a deep hole and a study published in 2026 concluded that it could be the result of an invasive dental intervention made with stone tools, at a time when there were no modern anesthesia techniques.
·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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