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Ice age Europeans as young as 10 years old rocked cheek piercings 30,000 years agoA 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 ...
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 ...
New scientific research suggests that cheek piercings were popular as long ago as 30,000 years, as chipped teeth and bones ...
A group of Ice Age hunter-gatherers living in central Europe may have adorned their faces with cheek piercings at as early as ...
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 ...
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Paleolithic kids had cheek piercings 29,000 years ago — and the proof is in the teethParents in the Ice Age let their kids get away with some pretty wild stuff.
The hypothesis of facial piercings offers a new perspective. John Willman, an anthropologist at the University of Coimbra, suggests that labrets, worn in the cheek or lip, caused this wear. The ...
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