Comment on Neanderthal dentists used stone drills to treat cavities nearly 60,000 years ago, ancient molar suggests

LimpRimble@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• newton@feddit.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ty, best one ive heard today🤣

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Nurse, prep patient.”

  “Yes, doctor.”

  hits patient in the head with a club to knock him out

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  • muhyb@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yokel anesthesia

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• Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  😂 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 neolithic upper paleolithic.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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?

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    • Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ah, yes, alcohol. Why not ! I don’t know where opium grows. In the books they use datura !

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    • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t think there is evidence of neanderthals making pottery. Unlikely that they would be able to make alcohol.

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      • Mike_The_TV@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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.

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