Now, a researcher in Portugal has put forth an interesting explanation: cheek piercings. John C. Willman of the Laboratory of Prehistory (CIAS) at the University of Coimbra has suggested that ...

Ice Age Europeans may have sported cheek piercings, suggested by unusual dental wear patterns analyzed by anthropologist John Willman. His study proposes that these piercings, or labrets ...

A new study posits a theory that this damage came not from eating or carrying an object in the mouth, but from cheek piercings The study posits that these piercings—which could have been placed ...

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 ...

The term labret comes from the Latin word for "lip" and refers to a type of piercing that is inserted into a person's lower lip or cheek area. The use of labrets is well known in both modern and ...

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 ...

“The enamel wear on cheek surfaces struck me as very similar to the wear caused by labrets and other facial piercings that are found in some bioarchaeological, ethnographic, and clinical case ...

A new study posits a theory that this damage came not from eating or carrying an object in the mouth, but from cheek piercings The study posits that these piercings—which could have been placed as ...

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.