The amputee lived in the Linearbandkeramik period, when European hunter-gatherers began subsistence farming Photo: HULTON
Posted on 01/31/2010 7:01:48 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Early Neolithic surgeons used a sharpened flint stone and rudimentary anaesthetics to amputate the elderly man's left forearm, and treated the wound in sterile conditions, experts believe.
Evidence of the early surgery was unearthed by Cécile Buquet-Marcon and Anaick Samzun, both archaeologists, and Philippe Charlier, a forensic scientist, during work on a tomb discovered at Buthiers-Boulancourt, about 40 miles south of Paris...
Tests showed that the humerus bone had been severed above the elbow in what scientists described as "an intentional and successful amputation".
The patient, who is likely to have been a warrior, is thought likely to have damaged his arm in a fall, animal attack or battle.
Pain-killing plants such as the hallucinogenic Datura are likely to have been used in the operation, and the wound was probably cleaned using antiseptic herbs like sage, the scientists said...
Researchers have also recently reported signs of two other Neolithic amputations in Germany and the Czech Republic.
Stone Age doctors were previously known to have performed trephinations, making incisions in the skull, but not amputations.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The amputee lived in the Linearbandkeramik period, when European hunter-gatherers began subsistence farming Photo: HULTON
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Anyone who doesn't get that shouldn't be on this thread ;)
Did he have health insurance?
Proves the existence of time travelers!
I can accept a lot of what scientists say about the distant past -- but they always seem to push it too far. Is there any evidence of the use of Datura in this particular instance? Or are we just engaging in bald speculation?
Since when does science == wild ass guessing??
Evolution and Global Warming are filled with people who like to assume, guess, speculate and model, and then declare the result to the "science".
Obamacare?
Yeah, that looks like early Obamacare in action.
I’m sure a related find reveals the antiquity of the joke, “Busier than a one-legged Neolithic Linearbandkeramik period hunter-gatherers in an ass-kickin’ contest.”
Did someone say Datura??????
"I told Gern not to worry it wasn't going to hurt at all. He was quite the ladies man, even with one arm!"
The “physician” could have saved the limb, but he was a greedy Stone Aged doctor who was looking for a bigger reimbursement.
It was the day after the amputation that Ooog, (D) submitted the first legislation aimed at single payer health care.
Ooog’s bill did not pass, and he was fed to the lions soon after.
Remiss of my to not ping you special. [blush]
BTW, why not just change your handle to “Zombie Cucumber” and get it over with? ;’)
The pic looks like a gathering of LGBT (fags) in SF.
I started reading it until i got to the part
“EXPERTS BELIEVE” and then gave up..
You know, I’ve gotten very sick of modern “historians”, “scientists”, “anthropologists”, and kin assuming that every human being born before the twentieth century must have been a moron. Of course “[specialty] is surprised to learn that [ancient culture] did [something]”. When you assume they were all as dumb as a post in the first place, everything they did right is a surprise...
But of course, these were the items of which we speak:
Helen was quite the cougar even back then!
An elderly warrior?
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