Dentistry in 7000 BC, in Mehrgarh, Indus valley « Hindu focus

• Dentistry in 7000 BC, in Mehrgarh, Indus valley « Hindu focus

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  • The findings, to be reported Thursday in the scientific review Nature, push back the dawn of dentistry by 4,000 years to around 7000 B.C. The drilled molars come from a sample of 300 individuals buried in graves at the Mehrgarh site in western Pakistan, believed to be the oldest Stone Age complex in the Indus River valley.