What did they pack it with after? Otherwise it would start decaying again quickly.
Every time I think about Neanderthals I just get an image in my head that they were smart nicer versions of us so they didn’t survive when we decided to just kill them all like we do everything else
This is such a fascinating story.
I wonder if this is a good interpretation of the fossil because I can understand pulling it out but without knowing the science drilling into a painful and infected tooth is quite counter-intuitive.
They’ve been around for ~150k years. That’s plenty for trial and error.
It is a lot of time and it is possible in trying to knock a bad tooth out with a rock they inadvertently gouged the infection out and the penny dropped.
I’m wondering when fermentation became common practice, because I’m curious if they had anything to give their patient to forget the pain.
Didn’t know they had talking teeth as well!
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