About 42,000 years ago, the Neanderthals — the stocky cousins of modern humans — fashioned tiny jewelry beads from animal teeth, shells and ivory, a new study finds. The finding is momentous, as it ...

FROM LOGBOOK: PACKAGE OF HUMAN TEETH AND FIBRE. Appear to be partly strung as a necklace? Labels with objects indicate they may be a necklace or necklaces from the William Gabb collection.

Human teeth that were worn as pendants were unearthed from the ruins of the 9,000-year-old Turkish city Çatalhöyük. This is the first documented case of human teeth being made into jewelry in the Near ...