First evidence of brain surgery in Bronze Age Harappa

We report here the first unequivocal case of ancient brain surgical practice, known as trepanation, observed similar to 4300 years ago in a Bronze Age Harappan skull. A decade ago, a Neolithic skull from Burzahom super(1-3)in the Kashmir Valley was reported with multiple trepanations as the first ca...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Current science (Bangalore) 2011-06, Vol.100 (11), p.1621-1622
Hauptverfasser:	Sankhyan, A. R., Schug, G. R.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Bronze age Paleoanthropology SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE Skull
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