6,500 years ago, someone drilled a human tooth and wore it as a pendant; archaeologists found it sitting in a Serbian museum collection

It sat on a museum shelf for nearly twenty years, unseen, mistaken for something far more common. But now a closer look at a tiny, worn tooth is giving a remarkable glimpse into how Neolithic people in the Balkans may have remembered, and perhaps even honored, the dead, states an archaeology report by Phys Org.