People were having their teeth drilled up to 9,000 years ago. A Neolithic graveyard at Mehrgarh in Pakistan held eleven molars from nine adults with holes drilled while they were alive.

7000 BC · 5500 BC · apart: 1500 years

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• The tooth drillers of Mehrgarhc. 6000 BC · Balochistan, Pakistan. A Neolithic graveyard at Mehrgarh yielded eleven molars from nine adults with neat holes drilled while their owners were alive. The burials are 7,500–9,000 years old, making this the earliest evidence of a kind of proto-dentistry among early farmers.

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