Our ancestors had dental problems and bad breath for 15 thousand years before the beginning of agriculture and food production, thought to be linked to the development of caries. The revelation comes through skeletons discovered in Morocco.
The hunter-gatherers who occupied the cave of Pigeons near the Moroccan town of Taforalt, there are between 13,700 and 15,000 years, had serious dental hygiene. According to the authors of a study published on Monday in the U.S., in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 51 percent of adult tooth decay had found magazine. Evidence found at the scene suggest that those prehistoric man ate acorns, pine nuts and walnuts, rich in fermentable carbohydrates, explain the study authors, led by Louise Humphrey Museum of Natural History in London.Bacteria probably consumed carbohydrates who were in the teeth of those men leading to rot.
‘Most occupants of that cave had caries and abscesses and they must often have toothaches and bad breath, “notes a statement Isabelle de Groote, teacher of anthropology at the University of Liverpool John Moore, who participated in the study.
The frequency and severity of caries found in that group of prehistoric men clearly show that consumption of berries can be bad for health dentistry such as foods with refined sugar in modern societies, commented.
According to these paleontologists, discovery calls into question the hypothesis advanced so far that dental caries would probably began with agriculture for about 11 thousand years.
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