For those of us who, in our teenage years, rocked baggy jeans, wallet chains, oversized hoodies featuring our favourite metal acts, and sometimes even eyebrow piercings, Chocolate Starfish and the ...

Strange wear marks on the teeth of Paleolithic people in Central Europe have long puzzled scientists, but new research may ...

Wear patterns on the teeth of skeletons found in Central Europe suggest children as young as 6 may have been wearing labrets ...

The piercings many have been associated with community participation and major life events. Skulls from Paleolithic Europe’s ...

A group of Ice Age hunter-gatherers living in central Europe may have adorned their faces with cheek piercings at as early as ...

Parents in the Ice Age let their kids get away with some pretty wild stuff.

A new study posits a theory that this damage came not from eating or carrying an object in the mouth, but from cheek piercings The study posits that these piercings—which could have been placed ...

Ice Age Europeans may have sported cheek piercings, suggested by unusual dental wear patterns analyzed by anthropologist John Willman. His study proposes that these piercings, or labrets ...

30,000 years ago, European children were already wearing cheek piercings. This discovery, resulting from the analysis of ancient teeth, sheds light on the social practices of Ice Age populations. The ...

But one researcher thinks he's solved the mystery: Ice age people as young as 10 years old rocked cheek piercings. These piercings likely signaled a person's membership in a group, according to ...