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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Nicole Wootton-Cane

The surprising amount archaeologists learned from 10,000-year-old teeth

Scientists have made new discoveries about the lives of the world’s first farming communities after analysing 10,000-year-old teeth.

Researchers from Durham University used the jaws of 71 people, dated from across the Neolithic period, to understand how people moved between communities in ancient Syria.

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