Human tooth jewelry lies in ruins of 900,000-year-old Turkish town

Chatalhöyük ruins researchers in central Turkey have discovered evidence that residents once wore human teeth as jewelry.

A group of archaeologists discovered three human teeth stored while at a dig in the proto-neolitic city, a site of U's world heritage NESTO.

The teeth date back about 6,500 years to Christ, and two showed signs that they were created in a conical form using a micro-shop so that they could place a wire and be used as jewelry.

Researchers believed that teeth came from middle - aged adults and were removed after death, according to a report by Forbes magazine contributors.

At its height, Chatalhöyük had a population of about 8,000 who, in time, were forced to move further out of the city to find land for pasture, new land parcels for agriculture and firewood.

Chatalhöyük is one of the earliest examples of dense urban living, with more than 8,000 residents. It was eventually abandoned about 5950 BC because of climate change and poor resources for life.

Otherwise, Chatalhöyük is one of the most important archaeological sites in the world. The city's inhabitants were early farmers, and unlike later cities, there is no visible hierarchy, no house for priests or princes, no temples, no public space.

The city survived for about 2,000 years, but new research shows that a combination of disease, violence and ultimately climate change eventually leads to its destruction.