CAVE PEOPLE HAD ADVANCED MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE: New Discovery Claims
Buried in an exceedingly shallow grave deep in a remote Indonesian cave, archaeologists have found the bones of a young individual who they assert might rewrite medical history. Using radiocarbon dating techniques, scientists estimate the body could have lain intact for 31,000 years within the Liang Tebo subside of Borneo’ jap province of Kalimantan.
The person was between the ages of nineteen and twenty-one before his death from unknown causes, the researchers said. The remarkably intact skeleton was found in 2020 by Australian and Indonesian archaeologists, who say the amputation reveals the appreciable surgical ability and is the oldest example within the anthropology record, shaking our understanding of Stone Age man’s ingenuity. Read More