Neanderthals had the know-how to identify a tooth infection and the motor skills to drill out the damage, according to a study published May 13, 2026, in the open-access journal PLOS One by Alisa Zubova of Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences (Kunstkamera), St. Petersburg, and colleagues.
Probably just used a larger stone.
“Nurse, prep patient.”
“Yes, doctor.”
hits patient in the head with a club to knock him out
Yokel anesthesia
😂 In Earth’s Children, the main character occasionally uses anesthetic beverages to operate on others painlessly. I don’t know how documented that is. When I have some free time, I’ll look up anesthetic use during the
neolithicupper paleolithic.I suppose they could make wine, but anything stronger would require distilling. I’m not sure if they were capable of that? Though maybe there were other things they could smoke or ingest. Opium comes to mind, but not sure if that was available in the geographic regions you would find Neanderthals?
ah, yes, alcohol. Why not ! I don’t know where opium grows. In the books they use datura !
I don’t think there is evidence of neanderthals making pottery. Unlikely that they would be able to make alcohol.
https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/09/17/in-the-wild-chimps-likely-ingest-the-equivalent-of-several-alcoholic-drinks-every-day/ Wouldn’t necessarily need pottery.
That’s true enough, but also not reliable. There are not perfectly rotten fruits lying around at all times and places to be used for tooth surgery.
There are if you start taking them with you because funny fruit makes you feel good.
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