The piercings many have been associated with community participation and major life events. Skulls from Paleolithic Europe’s ...

Willman of the Laboratory of Prehistory (CIAS) at the University of Coimbra observed distinctive wear on the buccal (cheek ..

Strange wear marks on the teeth of Paleolithic people in Central Europe have long puzzled scientists, but new research may ...

A group of Ice Age hunter-gatherers living in central Europe may have adorned their faces with cheek piercings at as early as six-years-old. Although the author of a recent study published in the ...

A new research suggests that cheek piercings were popular as long ago as 30,000 years, with teenagers and children as young as 10 years old sporting labrets during the Ice Age. 30,000 years ago ...

Labrets are a certain kind of facial piercing—holes are made in the cheek, close to the mouth and then something is inserted. In modern times, such objects tend to be made of stainless steel.

But one researcher thinks he's solved the mystery: Ice age people as young as 10 years old rocked cheek piercings. These piercings likely signaled a person's membership in a group, according to ...