PALEONTOLOGY
Dental delight: perfectly preserved 70 000 year old tooth found in France

Researchers unearthed a tooth estimated to be around 70,000 years old, at the archaeolocial site of Montmaurin, in Haute-Garonne, near the Spanish border. The incisor, believed to have belonged to a Neanderthal adult, was found in the Coupe-Gorge cave.

The tooth was found on August 11, just a few days after archaeologists continued excavations that were abandoned in the 1960s.

Humanoids populating the region 700 centuries ago were believed to be nomads. Earlier research showed that the Coupe-Gorge cave, in the southern Haute-Garonne area, may have been used as a gathering place where nomads brought animals for consumption.

Cutting tools made of stone and leftovers of meals were found..

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