European children were already wearing cheek piercings. This discovery, resulting from the analysis of ancient teeth, sheds light on the social practices of Ice ...

Ice Age Europeans may have sported cheek piercings, suggested by unusual dental wear patterns analyzed by anthropologist John Willman. His study propo ...

Metal hooks weighed down with milk pots skewered the flesh of men’s backs as tridents pierced their cheeks and tongues.

A mom is warning other parents after she kissed her daughter while wearing a lip-plumping gloss – and gave her a “red burn”. Sarah Davies, 41, applied the Too Faced Lip Injection Maximum Plump Extra ...

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

For decades, archaeologists have studied the remains of Pavlovian peoples, who lived in Central Europe between 29,000 and ...

A biological anthropologist at the University of Coimbra in Portugal is hypothesizing that the mysterious flat patches found on the sides of teeth in ancient Europeans may have been due to the ...

A group of Ice Age hunter-gatherers living in central Europe may have adorned their faces with cheek piercings at as early as ...

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

A new research suggests that cheek piercings were popular as long ago as 30,000 years, with teenagers and children as young ...