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Cavemen carried amputations 30,000 years ago.....
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Remarkable new findings show that patients survived the prehistoric procedures even though they happened thousands of years before the discovery of antiseptics - which are required to fight off post-surgery infections that usually lead to death.
Experts discovered the skeleton of a Stone Age human male in a cave in Borneo who had his left foot surgically removed and lived for around another ten years.
The patient is thought to be aged 11 when his foot was cut off with the "clean sloping cut" ruling out the possibility of an accident.
Boffins are convinced that the find is the first example of a complex operation and "rewrites history of human medical knowledge".
Tim Maloney, of Australia's Griffith University, told the journal Nature that it shows "a really strong case the community had developed advanced medical understandings". |
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"If I remember rightly they found evidence of trepanning in prehistory.
I wonder why they cut the boys foot off..."
Yes I visited a cave where they said there was multiple skulls with evidence of trepanning. For the life of me I can't remember which cave  |
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How wild is it that we're able to even work these things out?! Like, look at a 30k year old skeleton and go "yep, this guy had his foot cut off 10 years before he died". Mad. |
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"How wild is it that we're able to even work these things out?! Like, look at a 30k year old skeleton and go "yep, this guy had his foot cut off 10 years before he died". Mad."
The "clean" cut removal of the foot as a child would be obvious from the bone and because he was juvenile when the amputation took place, the age at death can be fairly well estimated from the adult skeleton. |
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"How wild is it that we're able to even work these things out?! Like, look at a 30k year old skeleton and go "yep, this guy had his foot cut off 10 years before he died". Mad.
The "clean" cut removal of the foot as a child would be obvious from the bone and because he was juvenile when the amputation took place, the age at death can be fairly well estimated from the adult skeleton. "
Yeah alright, when you put it like that...
It's still wild, okay? |
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"Remarkable new findings show that patients survived the prehistoric procedures even though they happened thousands of years before the discovery of antiseptics - which are required to fight off post-surgery infections that usually lead to death.
Experts discovered the skeleton of a Stone Age human male in a cave in Borneo who had his left foot surgically removed and lived for around another ten years.
The patient is thought to be aged 11 when his foot was cut off with the "clean sloping cut" ruling out the possibility of an accident.
Boffins are convinced that the find is the first example of a complex operation and "rewrites history of human medical knowledge".
Tim Maloney, of Australia's Griffith University, told the journal Nature that it shows "a really strong case the community had developed advanced medical understandings"."
How do they know he identified as a stoneage male?
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"How wild is it that we're able to even work these things out?! Like, look at a 30k year old skeleton and go "yep, this guy had his foot cut off 10 years before he died". Mad.
The "clean" cut removal of the foot as a child would be obvious from the bone and because he was juvenile when the amputation took place, the age at death can be fairly well estimated from the adult skeleton.
Yeah alright, when you put it like that...
It's still wild, okay? "
The bone would also show signs of healing, which is why we know survival rates for prehistoric surgery were high. |
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"Remarkable new findings show that patients survived the prehistoric procedures even though they happened thousands of years before the discovery of antiseptics - which are required to fight off post-surgery infections that usually lead to death.
Experts discovered the skeleton of a Stone Age human male in a cave in Borneo who had his left foot surgically removed and lived for around another ten years.
The patient is thought to be aged 11 when his foot was cut off with the "clean sloping cut" ruling out the possibility of an accident.
Boffins are convinced that the find is the first example of a complex operation and "rewrites history of human medical knowledge".
Tim Maloney, of Australia's Griffith University, told the journal Nature that it shows "a really strong case the community had developed advanced medical understandings".
How do they know he identified as a stoneage male?
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There are structural differences in the skeleton, the pelvis being one of the main ones |
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"How wild is it that we're able to even work these things out?! Like, look at a 30k year old skeleton and go "yep, this guy had his foot cut off 10 years before he died". Mad.
The "clean" cut removal of the foot as a child would be obvious from the bone and because he was juvenile when the amputation took place, the age at death can be fairly well estimated from the adult skeleton.
Yeah alright, when you put it like that...
It's still wild, okay? "
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"Remarkable new findings show that patients survived the prehistoric procedures even though they happened thousands of years before the discovery of antiseptics - which are required to fight off post-surgery infections that usually lead to death.
Experts discovered the skeleton of a Stone Age human male in a cave in Borneo who had his left foot surgically removed and lived for around another ten years.
The patient is thought to be aged 11 when his foot was cut off with the "clean sloping cut" ruling out the possibility of an accident.
Boffins are convinced that the find is the first example of a complex operation and "rewrites history of human medical knowledge".
Tim Maloney, of Australia's Griffith University, told the journal Nature that it shows "a really strong case the community had developed advanced medical understandings".
How do they know he identified as a stoneage male?
There are structural differences in the skeleton, the pelvis being one of the main ones "
They still potentially misgendered this individual lol |
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Is an alternative that the boy was a servany that tried to escape so They cut off one foot to stop him from running again. The other servants looked after him and he survived 10 more years? I heard a broadcast about this and i wondered if they had settled on an explanation without sufficient evidence  |
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"Is an alternative that the boy was a servany that tried to escape so They cut off one foot to stop him from running again. The other servants looked after him and he survived 10 more years? I heard a broadcast about this and i wondered if they had settled on an explanation without sufficient evidence "
They should be able to work out if it's likely he did heavy labour, as he'd have evidence of large muscle attachment if they can see the bones of the arms and shoulders. However, if he had the amputation as a child and lived about 10 more years, he died in his mid 20s, so might not have lots of evidence of a hard physical life. |
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"Remarkable new findings show that patients survived the prehistoric procedures even though they happened thousands of years before the discovery of antiseptics - which are required to fight off post-surgery infections that usually lead to death.
Experts discovered the skeleton of a Stone Age human male in a cave in Borneo who had his left foot surgically removed and lived for around another ten years.
The patient is thought to be aged 11 when his foot was cut off with the "clean sloping cut" ruling out the possibility of an accident.
Boffins are convinced that the find is the first example of a complex operation and "rewrites history of human medical knowledge".
Tim Maloney, of Australia's Griffith University, told the journal Nature that it shows "a really strong case the community had developed advanced medical understandings".
How do they know he identified as a stoneage male?
There are structural differences in the skeleton, the pelvis being one of the main ones
They still potentially misgendered this individual lol"
Oh lol, I see |
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