Strange 'Labret' Piercings Found in Ice Age Skeletons, Reveal Unique Dental Features 30,000 Years Ago New research has shed ...

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

These piercings likely signaled a person's membership in a group, according to John Willman, a biological anthropologist at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, but they also caused teeth to move.

Parents in the Ice Age let their kids get away with some pretty wild stuff.

What could have caused such distinct damage? The theory Willman settled on looked outside of eating, and indeed, beyond the sphere of actions undertaken merely for survival. Instead, Willman’s ...

John Willman, a biological anthropologist at Portugal’s University of Coimbra, outlines his theory in a new paper published in the Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. Willman examined dozens 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 lawsuit filed by former Santa Anita public relations director Mike Willman accuses track executives of lying during the ...

It was a mystery that similarly intrigued biological anthropologist John Willman of the University of Coimbra in Portugal. “There was a long history of discussion of the strange wear on the canines ...

Credit: John C. Willman / University of Coimbra Strange, flat patches on the teeth of ancient Europeans have puzzled archaeologists for centuries. But one researcher thinks he's solved the mystery ...