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Post by M. Hawbaker on Sept 8, 2022 15:20:55 GMT
NEW YORK (AP) — The 31,000-year-old skeleton of a young adult found in a cave in Indonesia that is missing its left foot and part of its left leg reveal the oldest known evidence of an amputation, according to a new study. Scientists say the amputation was performed when the person was a child — and that the “patient” went on to live for years as an amputee. The prehistoric surgery could show that humans were making medical advances much earlier than previously thought, according to the study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers were exploring a cave in Borneo, in a rainforest region known for having some of the earliest rock art in the world, when they came across the grave, said Tim Maloney, an archaeologist at Griffith University in Australia and the study’s lead researcher. Though much of the skeleton was intact, it was missing its left foot and the lower part of its left leg, he explained. After examining the remains, the researchers concluded the foot bones weren’t missing from the grave, or lost in an accident — they were carefully removed. The remaining leg bone showed a clean, slanted cut that healed over, Maloney said. There were no signs of infection, which would be expected if the child had gotten its leg bitten off by a creature like a crocodile. And there were also no signs of a crushing fracture, which would have been expected if the leg had snapped off in an accident. This shows that the prehistoric foragers knew enough about medicine to perform the surgery without fatal blood loss or infection, the authors concluded. apnews.com/article/science-health-606cbfe3040b8fed2b9435fb1fbc2d29
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Sept 8, 2022 15:21:24 GMT
I found this story interesting given my own leg situation.
Also interesting that this shows that "primative" Stone Age people already had fairly advanced medical knowledge contray to how the evolutionists would like to portray them as just slightly less hairy apes.
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Post by barb43 on Sept 10, 2022 17:35:42 GMT
This is a really fascinating discovery! Great article! edited to add: The only thing I'd ever heard about amputations were those done during the Civil War, and mm, boy, was that ever a mixed bag of horrors. Some soldiers survived, but the rate of infection was terrible. Stone Age folks must not have had a way to pass down too much of the information they gathered.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Sept 10, 2022 17:56:08 GMT
Stone Age folks must not have had a way to pass down too much of the information they gathered. I suspect that we would be truely shocked if we knew just how much our earliest ancestors once knew that was later lost due to cataclysmic events like Noah's Flood and the Tower of Babel.
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Post by barb43 on Sept 10, 2022 18:17:39 GMT
I suspect that we would be truely shocked if we knew just how much our earliest ancestors once knew that was later lost due to cataclysmic events like Noah's Flood and the Tower of Babel. Wow! I'll bet you're right! I'd never thought of that before!
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