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Knowledge of proto-dentistry by the people of…
Knowledge of proto-dentistry by the people of the Indus Valley Civilization, from the early Harappan periods, is evidenced by archaeologists studying the remains of two men from Mehrgarh in 2001.
It will be announced in the scientific journal Nature in April 2006, that the oldest (and first early Neolithic) evidence for the drilling of human teeth in vivo (i.e., in a living person) was found in Mehrgarh.
According to the authors, their discoveries point to a tradition of proto-dentistry in the early farming cultures of that region.
"Here we describe eleven drilled molar crowns from nine adults discovered in a Neolithic graveyard in Pakistan that dates from seven thousand five hundred to nine thousand years ago. These findings provide evidence for a long tradition of a type of proto-dentistry in an early farming culture."
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The Great Crossroads
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