Early evidence for the treatment of dental pathology is found primarily among food-producing societies associated with high levels of oral pathology. However, some Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers show extensive oral pathology, suggesting that experimentation with therapeutic dental interventions may have greater antiquity. Here, we report the second earliest probable evidence for dentistry in a Late Upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherer recovered from Riparo Fredian (Tuscany, Italy).

The dawn of dentistry in the late upper Paleolithic: An early case of pathological intervention at Riparo Fredian

BOSCHIAN, GIOVANNI;TOZZI, CARLO;
2017-01-01

Abstract

Early evidence for the treatment of dental pathology is found primarily among food-producing societies associated with high levels of oral pathology. However, some Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers show extensive oral pathology, suggesting that experimentation with therapeutic dental interventions may have greater antiquity. Here, we report the second earliest probable evidence for dentistry in a Late Upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherer recovered from Riparo Fredian (Tuscany, Italy).
2017
Oxilia, Gregorio; Fiorillo, Flavia; Boschin, Francesco; Boaretto, Elisabetta; Apicella, Salvatore A; Matteucci, Chiara; Panetta, Daniele; Pistocchi, Rossella; Guerrini, Franca; Margherita, Cristiana; Andretta, Massimo; Sorrentino, Rita; Boschian, Giovanni; Arrighi, Simona; Dori, Irene; Mancuso, Giuseppe; Crezzini, Jacopo; Riga, Alessandro; Serrangeli, Maria C; Vazzana, Antonino; Salvadori, Piero A; Vandini, Mariangela; Tozzi, Carlo; Moroni, Adriana; Feeney, Robin N. M; Willman, John C; Moggi Cecchi, Jacopo; Benazzi, Stefano
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