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Oldest tooth filling was made by an Ice Age dentist in Italy

Brian Owens · April 7, 2017 ·

Scared of the dentist? Be glad you don’t live in the Ice Age. A pair of 13,000-year-old front teeth found in Italy contain the earliest known use of fillings – made out of bitumen. The teeth, two upper central incisors belonging to one person, were discovered at the Riparo Fredian site near Lucca in northern […]

Feral Hogs Root Through History

Brian Owens · February 21, 2017 ·

Archaeological sites inside Florida Air Force bases are threatened by foraging pigs. Feral swine, first introduced by some of the earliest European explorers to America, have been roaming Florida for the past 500 years, and are now present in at least 35 states. The invasive pigs are well-known as a destructive environmental menace, tearing up […]

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