A Maya child, as young as seven years old, has been found to have worn jade “tooth gems,” a discovery that sheds new light on ...

Archaeologists already knew that adult Maya had tooth inlays, but this is some of the first evidence that children also had ...

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Archaeologists have long known that dental inlays were common among Maya adults, but now new evidence shows that children as young as seven years old also sported jade tooth gems. An examination of ...