London – The first case of dental “intervention” took place in the final moments of the Upper Paleolithic. A multidisciplinary study that describes a rudimentary form of intervention on a tooth affected by caries, belonging to a man who lived about 14,000 years ago in Shelter Villabruna (Veneto Dolomites), has been published in Scientific Reports. The work was conducted by an international research team that includes Gregorio Oxilia, PhD candidate from the Biology Department of the University of Florence, and Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi, anthropology associate, as well as researchers from the Universities of Bologna, Ferrara, Siena, Tubingen and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig). (9Colonne)
