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Some 59,000 years ago, a Neanderthal developed a toothache. What happened next was, in many ways, astonishing. wapo.st/48WvYXj
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A Neanderthal with a cavity opened wide for a stone drill
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Neanderthals used rock drills to treat an infected tooth, according to a study that pushes back the earliest known evidence of dentistry by more than 40,000 years.
Carolyn Johnson