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Evidence of caries treatment on a 60,000-year-old tooth found in Russia pushes back the birth of dentistry, a skill that archaeologists didn't expect to encounter in Neanderthals
In the early days of paleontology, Neanderthals got a bad rap and were depicted as primitive, brutish, ape-like creatures. That image has long changed, as discoveries in recent decades have shown that our evolutionary cousins buried their dead, cared for the sick and injured, and that most of us carry a bit of their DNA in our genome.
