For decades, archaeologists have studied the remains of Pavlovian peoples, who lived in Central Europe between 29,000 and 25,000 years ago. These Paleolithic hunter-gatherers, named after the Pavlov ...

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

Wear patterns on the teeth of skeletons found in Central Europe suggest children as young as 6 may have been wearing labrets ...

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

A new research suggests that cheek piercings were popular as long ago as 30,000 years, with teenagers and children as young as 10 years old sporting labrets during the Ice Age.

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 ...

Though Willman wasn’t the first to propose the cheek piercing hypothesis ... happens if you wear braces or retainer to straighten your own teeth.” Because researchers have identified 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 ...

Ice Age Europeans may have sported cheek piercings, suggested by unusual dental wear patterns analyzed by anthropologist John Willman. His study proposes that these piercings, or labrets ...

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 ...