The ancient cow's skull opening, shaped almost in a square and framed by scrape marks, resembles two instances of
human skull surgery from around the same time in France, say biological anthropologists Fernando Ramirez Rozzi of CNRS in Montrouge, France, and Alain Froment of IRD - Museum of Man in Paris.
Not exact matches
Humans have been performing brain
surgery — or at least drilling holes in one anothers»
skulls — for thousands of years.
It was clear from the long straight lacerations that the
human skulls had undergone some sort of primitive brain
surgery.
Evidence of
skull surgery on
humans, whether for medical or ritual reasons, goes back about 11,000 years (SN: 5/28/16, p. 12).
About 5,000 years ago,
humans used crude stone tools to puncture a hole in a cow's head, making it the earliest known instance of
skull surgery in an animal.
About 5,000 years ago,
humans used crude stone tools to puncture a hole in a cow's head, making it the earliest known instance of
skull surgery in an...
A re-analysis of a 5,000 - year - old cow's
skull suggests
humans were performing cranial
surgery on animals as well — but why would they even bother?