History rewritten - 31,000 year old amputation discovered

A team of Indonesian and Australian archaeologists including academics from Griffith University and The University of Western Australia have unearthed the earliest known evidence of a surgical amputation, dating back at least 31,000 years, in a limestone cave on the island of Borneo.
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