| Dirty Teeth Reveal Ancient Peruvians Ate Well - Discovery News (2008-12-02) |
| 1 - Evidence From Dirty Teeth: Ancient Peruvians Ate Well - Science Daily (2008-12-03) |
Ew! Bad Teeth Reveal What Ancients Ate - MSNBC (2008-12-01)
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
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- 9,000-Year-Old Drilled Teeth Are Work of Stone Age Dentists (April 05, 2006) -- National Geographic News
- Stone age man used dentist drill, Stone age people in Pakistan were using dental drills made of flint 9,000 years ago, according to archaeologists -- (Thursday, April 06, 2006) BBCNews
- Ancient humans opened wide SCIENCE: Researchers discover humans drilled teeth 9,000 years ago (Thursday, April 06, 2006) -- Duluth News-TribUniverse
- Other evidence was first reported about 5 years ago
Ancient Middle America
other on-line resources
dentistry history -- Wikipedia
search dentistry history on JSTOR
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"The procedure [in Pakistan] could not have had an aesthetic purpose, since its results were not easily visible, [Roberto Macchiarelli, a paleoanthropologist at the Université de Poitiers and lead author of the study] added." -- National Geographic News
Later on, prehistoric Post Classic Maya people began drilling and filing their teeth for beauty's sake. They carved their teeth and inlaid them with jade.
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" This Maya jaw was found on Ambergris Caye [Belize]. Take a close look at the shape to which the teeth were carved. Originally, the upper and lower teeth would have fit together like a zipper."
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"Mayan jade inlay in an anterior tooth,
circa A.D. 900." -- ADA
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Question:
- CHEMISTRY AND HOMINID FOSSILS: How to extract information about diet from those ancient teeth and bones (isotopic analysis to reconstruct diet) -- Dr Julia Lee-Thorp
- 9,000-Year-Old Drilled Teeth Are Work of Stone Age Dentists (April 05, 2006) -- National Geographic News
- 9000-Year-Old Dental Drill Is Found -- AOL News
- A pre-Columbian cavity - evidence of prehistoric dentistry -- Discover , Dec, 1997
- Prehistoric Dental Instruments Found in Pakistan -- Ker Than (Thursday, April 06, 2006) -- FOXNews
- Prehistoric dentistry evidence found: Tiny holes found in teeth suggest even prehistoric an may have had to fear the dentist's drill -- (11/04/2001) BBCNews
- Prehistoric Trip to the Dentist Had to Hurt -- CNN (4/5/06)
- Research Digs Up Examples of Ancient Dentistry -- NPR (4/6/06)
- Researchers say prehistoric man invented dental drill 9000 year -- Discovery Channel
- Stone age man used dentist drill: Stone age people in Pakistan were using dental drills made of flint 9,000 years ago, according to archaeologists -- (Thursday, April 06, 2006) BBCNews
- Yeeowww! Prehistoric Dentists Used Stone Drills -- LiveScience (4/5/06)
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