Neanderthals had the know-how to identify a tooth infection and the motor skills to drill out the damage, according to a study published May 13, 2026, in the open-access journal PLOS One by Alisa Zubova of Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences (Kunstkamera), St. Petersburg, and colleagues.
😂 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
neolithicupper paleolithic.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?
ah, yes, alcohol. Why not ! I don’t know where opium grows. In the books they use datura !