Dr Lydia Zotkina: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- archaeologist at the Russian Academy of Sciences and co-author
- Quoted on
- Dentistry access
- Press citations held
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 10 Sept 2026
“What struck me, and continues to strike me, is what an incredibly strong-willed person this Neanderthal must have been. They must have surely understood that although the pain of the procedure was greater than the pain of the inflammation, it was only temporary and had to be endured.”
Where Dr Lydia Zotkina has been quoted
- Neanderthals used stone drills to treat cavities 59,000 years ago, tooth suggeststheguardian.com · 10 Sept 2026
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