August
16
/ 2016
A step by step academic investigation into how Bronze Age medics conducted trepanation operations in Siberia has been conducted based on a male skull found last year in the Nefteprovod II burial ground at Anzhevsky archaeological site, southeast of Kansk in Krasnoyarsk region. The 'patient' died at the age of between 30 and 40, and archeologists are confident the markings on the ancient bone were from surgical intervention and not ritualistic practices. They also believe that this man, whose remains were buried with a cranked or crooked knife, lived for a period of time after his surgery. His left parietal bone had an opening with evident signs of bone healing, as well as indications of an inflammatory reaction on the
