[SunkenCiv]

The amputee lived in the Linearbandkeramik period, when European hunter-gatherers began subsistence farming Photo: HULTON

[SunkenCiv]

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[freedumb2003]

Little did any know that they used primitive salt shakers as their medical instruments.

Anyone who doesn't get that shouldn't be on this thread ;)

[central_va]

Did he have health insurance?

[miliantnutcase]

Proves the existence of time travelers!

[ClearCase_guy]

Pain-killing plants such as the hallucinogenic Datura are likely to have been used in the operation

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".

[Krankor]

Obamacare?

[datura]

Did someone say Datura??????

[central_va]

"I told Gern not to worry it wasn't going to hurt at all. He was quite the ladies man, even with one arm!"

[turfmann]

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.

[GSP.FAN]

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..

[Señor Zorro]

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...

[Eepsy]

I never cease to be amazed when people are surprised at the fact that ancient men were just like them, wanting to save their elders and minimise pain- as if common decency was invented no more than a hundred years ago.

Talk about hubris....

[ottbmare]

Bet that was fun. < /s> (shaking head in horrified contemplation of that scene)

[colorado tanker]

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...

I'm thinking more along the lines of an alcoholic beverage. Like beer, the miracle drug.