Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
There are variety of possible reasons for the ancient practice of trepanation, or drilling holes in a person’s skull, but whatever you call it, it was brain surgery. What is surprising is how good ancient practitioners were at it, and how similar trepanations were around the world.
A new science paper may have a clue as to how that happened. In 1999, a 5,000-year old cow skull was unearthed at an archaeological dig in France. It had a hole in it. Researchers assumed the hole was a gore from another cow’s horn, and put it away. A more recent examination shows that it was surgery.Physical analysis of the hole, which measures…
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