What a Bronze Age Skeleton Reveals About Cavities
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For nearly 4,000 years, a Bronze Age man’s skeleton lay quietly hidden in a limestone cave in Ireland. But recently, his remains, including a couple of well-preserved molars, came to light. Those teeth tell a new story about the connection between modern diets and cavity-causing bacteria.
Lara Cassidy, a geneticist at the Trinity College Dublin who specializes in ancient human DNA, was surprised to find an abundance of genetic material from one of the major causes of cavities and tooth decay, on the ancient man’s
