This is a microphotograph of the tooth crown in occlusal view with indication of the surface covered by beeswax (within the yellow dotted line). [Bernardini F, Tuniz C, Coppa A, Mancini L, Dreossi D, et al. (2012) Beeswax as Dental Filling on a Neolithic Human Tooth. PLoS ONE 7(9): e44904. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044904]
They obviously didn’t have pliers or they could have employed the same sort of modern medicine the Brits were reduced to under their fine socialist health care regimen...
Bears have dentists!
Or, maybe, the person with the cracked tooth simply ‘chewed’ beeswax into the crack by chowing down on some honeycomb, because their jaw was too sore to chomp seeds or meat; and Jewish penicillin (chicken soup) hadn’t been invented yet.
They died soon after of anaphylactic shock from all the bee stings received while raiding the hive.
