<p><img width="150" height="150" src="https://sqpn.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/SCI103-post-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" />Sixty thousand years before modern dentistry, a Neanderthal endured a 35-minute stone-tool drilling procedure — no anesthesia — and survived. Caroline Knight explains what a 59,000-year-old infected molar reveals about prehistoric medicine.</p>
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