Chomping at the Bit for Ancient Dentistry

If you’re interested in ancient dentistry, then you’re chomping at the bit over the significant discoveries so far uncovered this year.In A pril, researchers identified the oldest known evidence for filling caries, commonly called cavities. The evidence comes from an Italian site where archaeologists found two incisors belonging to a 13,000 year old person. This date is near the end of the Upper Pleistocene (geologic chronology) and Upper Paleolithic (technological chronology) periods.