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c. 13,000 BC · Taforalt, Morocco · Africa · Science

Hunter-gatherers with rotten teeth, long before bread

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In Morocco's Grotte des Pigeons people buried their dead 15,000–14,000 years ago, in what may be North Africa's oldest cemetery. Nearly every adult had decayed teeth: these hunter-gatherers ate so many acorns and pine nuts that their cavity rates rival those of later farmers.