These Paleolithic Skulls Had Odd Tooth Damage. One Anthropologist Says It was Caused By Cheek Piercings.
The piercings many have been associated with community participation and major life events. Skulls from Paleolithic Europe’s ...
Flat patches on ancient Europeans' teeth reveal possible cheek piercing tradition
A biological anthropologist at the University of Coimbra in Portugal is hypothesizing that the mysterious flat patches found on the sides of teeth in ancient Europeans may have been due to the ...
Ice Age Kids Sported Cheek Piercings, 29,000-Year-Old Teeth Suggest
Strange wear marks on the teeth of Paleolithic people in Central Europe have long puzzled scientists, but new research may ...
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Did These Ice Age Europeans Wear Cheek Piercings?
Wear patterns on the teeth of skeletons found in Central Europe suggest children as young as 6 may have been wearing labrets ...
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Paleolithic kids had cheek piercings 29,000 years ago — and the proof is in the teeth
Parents in the Ice Age let their kids get away with some pretty wild stuff.
Ice Age hunter-gatherers may have had cheek piercings, even as children
A group of Ice Age hunter-gatherers living in central Europe may have adorned their faces with cheek piercings at as early as ...
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30,000 years ago, these Europeans wore cheek piercings
30,000 years ago, European children were already wearing cheek piercings. This discovery, resulting from the analysis of ancient teeth, sheds light on the social practices of Ice Age populations. The ...
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Shocking! Research reveals Ice Age kids rocked cheek piercings 30,000 years ago
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 ...