Earliest evidence of dental caries manipulation in the Late Upper Palaeolithic

Prehistoric dental treatments were extremely rare, and the few documented cases are known from the Neolithic, when the adoption of early farming culture caused an increase of carious lesions. Here we report the earliest evidence of dental caries intervention on a Late Upper Palaeolithic modern human...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Oxilia, Gregorio, Peresani, Marco, Romandini, Matteo, Matteucci, Chiara, Spiteri, Cynthianne Debono, Henry, Amanda G., Schulz, Dieter, Archer, Will, Crezzini, Jacopo, Boschin, Francesco, Boscato, Paolo, Jaouen, Klervia, Dogandzic, Tamara, Broglio, Alberto, Moggi-Cecchi, Jacopo, Fiorenza, Luca, Hublin, Jean-Jacques, Kullmer, Ottmar, Benazzi, Stefano
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4504065/