Researchers have long wondered about the mysterious flat patches they found on the teeth of Ice Age Europeans. These dental ...

Early Cheek Piercings Found in Paleolithic Skeletons, Unique Dental Features Hints at Facial Adornments Biological ...

The piercings many have been associated with community participation and major life events. Skulls from Paleolithic Europe’s ...

Strange wear marks on the teeth of Paleolithic people in Central Europe have long puzzled scientists, but new research may ...

A group of Ice Age hunter-gatherers living in central Europe may have adorned their faces with cheek piercings at as early as ...

A biological anthropologist at the University of Coimbra in Portugal is hypothesizing that the mysterious flat patches found on the sides of teeth in ancient Europeans may have been due to the ...

30,000 years ago, European children were already wearing cheek piercings. This discovery, resulting from the analysis of ancient teeth, sheds light on the social practices of Ice Age populations. The ...

A study of Paleolithic skeletons from Central Europe suggests people's teeth were worn down and crowded together because of ...

A new research suggests that cheek piercings were popular as long ago ... what caused the wear in the Pavlovians," he said. "Getting your first labret seemed to have occurred in childhood, since ...

The term labret comes from the Latin word for "lip" and refers to a type of piercing that is inserted into a person's lower lip or cheek area. The use of labrets is well known in both modern and ...

A new study posits a theory that this damage came not from eating or carrying an object in the mouth, but from cheek piercings The study posits that these piercings—which could have been placed as ...