The molar showed that the Neanderthal who underwent the dental procedure was an adult, though the researchers do not know the ...

We now know that Neanderthals both had the knowledge to identify a tooth infection and the fine motor skills to drill out the ...

Researchers unearthed a 59,000-year-old Neanderthal molar that shows signs of dental surgery, a discovery that pushes back ...

The prehistoric hominins “apparently were very adept at what we would consider invasive medicine,” said the anthropologist ...

Archaeologists analyzed a Neanderthal molar that seems like it was intentionally drilled, but some experts are skeptical ...

A hole drilled into a 60,000-year-old molar suggests that Neanderthals practiced complex dental care long before modern ...

An articulated Neanderthal skeleton that was discovered during an excavation at the famous Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan.

A hole found in a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal tooth was likely made by a stone drill, making the discovery the oldest ...

Molar found in Siberia features deep hole that appears to show earliest known evidence of dental treatment ...

The Shanidar Cave discovery shows Neanderthals lived complex lives, cared for their dead and shared human traits.

For decades, many paleoarchaeologists believed Neanderthals went extinct largely because they just weren’t intelligent enough ...