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Hi Manish and Tom

Prehistoric
Dentistry

see also Prehistoric Diets

 

Ancient Middle American

other on-line resources

dentistry history -- Wikipedia

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Dental Cosmos
early history of dentistry
1859 - 1936

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Teeth Offer Clues to Human Diet Evolution LiveScience (5/9/08)

On 06 April 2006 it was announced that the earliest dental instruments had been found in Pakistan:

Prehistoric Dental Instruments Found in Pakistan
-- Ker Than (Thursday, April 06, 2006) -- FOXNews

"Scientists found 11 teeth from the skeletons of 4 females, 2 males and 3 individuals of unknown gender in a [9,000-year-old] cemetery in Pakistan's Baluchistan province that show signs of having undergone painful dental procedures."

 

From our friends at Texas A&M Anthropology in the News  . . .
(Fricday , 10 November 2006)

Not Just Nuts and Berries for These Hominids
Science (11/9/06)


One of the the teeth of four individuals of Paranthropus robustus
(also known as Australopithecus robustus)
from the Swartkrans Cave in South Africa.
(Science)


Australopithecus robustu
Paranthropus in southern Africa 1 million years ago.

 



Roberto Macchiarelli
University of Poitiers

"Researchers using a bow and flint-tipped drill to bore through a tooth."


Roberto Macchiarelli
University of Poitiers

"A close-up of the reconstructed drill boring into a tooth."


Roberto Macchiarelli
University of Poitiers

"A Neolithic molar that shows signs of having been worked on by a prehistoric dentist."

"Analysis of the teeth shows prehistoric dentists had a go at curing toothache with drills made from flint heads. . . ."

"A total of eleven drilled crowns were found, with one example showing evidence of a complex procedure involving tooth enamel removal followed by carving of the cavity wall. . . ."

"The form of dental treatment seen at Mehrgarh [Pakistan] continued for about 1,500 years, before the practice was stopped in the area. . . ." -- (11/04/2001) BBCNews


 


 

Ancient Middle America

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    Question:

    "What do you supposed happened between the Neolithic and the time of the Post Classic prehistoric Maya to have people adapt prehistoric dentistry from fixing problem teeth to fixing up teeth just for looks"?

     

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