Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

A species gone for nearly two centuries may be inching back into the public conversation as researchers consider whether ...

This means that the patient not only survived the procedure but then went on to chew enough food over the course of time to ...

Neanderthals were the first dentists and used stone drills to treat cavities nearly 60,000 years ago, archaeologists have ...

A battered molar from Chagyrskaya Cave in Siberia may preserve the earliest known evidence of invasive dental treatment — performed not by modern humans, but by a Neanderthal. A new study suggests ...

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The Toba supereruption 74,000 years ago was so massive it may have plunged Earth into years of darkness and cold, leading some scientists to believe humanity nearly went extinct. Yet archaeological ...

An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may have originated 500,000 ...

Psychology spent 150 years studying the present. A new science is reading minds across centuries—and one of its founders saw ...