Strange wear marks on the teeth of Paleolithic people in Central Europe have long puzzled scientists, but new research may ...

“The enamel wear on cheek surfaces struck me as very similar to the wear caused by labrets and other facial piercings that ...

Researchers have long wondered about the mysterious flat patches they found on the teeth of Ice Age Europeans. These dental ...

A group of Ice Age hunter-gatherers living in central Europe may have adorned their faces with cheek piercings at as early as ...

The piercings many have been associated with community participation and major life events. Skulls from Paleolithic Europe’s ...

Ice Age Europeans may have sported cheek piercings, suggested by unusual dental wear patterns analyzed by anthropologist John Willman. His study proposes that these piercings, or labrets ...

A new research suggests that cheek piercings were popular as long ago as 30,000 years, with teenagers and children as young as 10 years old sporting labrets during the Ice Age. 30,000 years ago ...

But one researcher thinks he's solved the mystery: Ice age people as young as 10 years old rocked cheek piercings. These piercings likely signaled a person's membership in a group, according to ...

Labrets are a certain kind of facial piercing—holes are made in the cheek, close to the mouth and ... But there was a big difference: the flat spots on the Pavlovian teeth were on the sides ...

A new study posits a theory that this damage came not from eating or carrying an object in the mouth, but from cheek piercings The study posits that these piercings—which could have been placed as ...