Neanderthal

A deep hole discovered in a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal tooth was likely created intentionally using a stone drill, making it the oldest known evidence of deliberate dental surgery in human history. This remarkable finding from Chagyrskaya Cave in Siberia challenges the long-held assumption that advanced medical procedures were exclusive to Homo sapiens. Instead, it suggests our extinct evolutionary cousins possessed the cognitive ability to diagnose a medical problem and the fine motor skills to treat it using specialized tools. Prehistoric Root Canal The 59,000-year-old lower left second molar was originally unearthed in 2016, but researchers were initially unsure what caused the deep, unusual concavity on its surface. Recent experimental evidence and microtomographic analysis have now revealed that the hole was intentionally