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Neanderthal Tooth Shows 59,000-Year-Old Dental Treatment

A peer-reviewed study suggests Neanderthals used stone tools to treat severe tooth decay.

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Neandertal Tooth Shows Stone-Tool Drilling as Oldest Evidence of Complex Dental Care

Neanderthal Tooth Shows Earliest Known Dental Surgery, Study Finds

Oldest Known Handheld Wooden Tools, 430,000 Years Old, Unearthed in Greece

Moroccan Hominin Fossils Dated to 773,000 Years Bolster African Roots of the Homo Sapiens Lineage

Study Finds Cannibalised Neanderthal Women and Children at Belgium's Goyet Caves 45,000 Years Ago

Study Finds Early Humans in Italy Butchered Straight‑Tusked Elephants and Turned Bones Into Tools

Portugal’s First Neanderthal Footprints Point to Coastal Living and Hunting Tactics

New Tests Date Greece’s Petralona Skull to at Least 277,000 Years

850,000-Year-Old Child Vertebra Reveals Europe’s Earliest Cannibalism

Child Vertebra With Cut Marks Confirms Cannibalism by Homo antecessor at Atapuerca

Neanderthals’ 125,000-Year-Old “Fat Factory” Confirmed as First Large-Scale Bone-Grease Operation

Science Advances Paper Corroborates 23,000-Year-Old White Sands Footprints

Forensic Police Authenticate 43,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Fingerprint in Spain

Study Dates Earliest European Whale Bone Tools to 20,000 Years Ago

Spanish Pebble Yields 43,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Face Abstraction, Fingerprint

1.4-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Oldest Human Face in Western Europe

Discovery of 'Pink' Fossil Redefines Early Human History in Western Europe

1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints Show Two Hominin Species Coexisted in Kenya

Fossil Footprints Reveal Coexistence of Two Early Human Species in Kenya