More than 6,500 years ago, someone carefully drilled a hole in a human tooth, strung it on a cord and likely used it as a necklace. Found during field surveys at the Vinča cultural site of Jablanica in Serbia, the human tooth was originally misidentified as an animal tooth bead until archaeologi...

Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-08-museum-shelf-mystery-reveals-year.html)

Sponsored