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24: Self Experimentation, Amputation Archaeology, and Learning to Love PowerPoint

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The Amputation of Legs in Southeast Asia

The amputation suggests that at least some foragers of Southeast Asia had developed significant medical knowledge and techniques long before the Neolithic Revolution. We possibly would have known it at least 31,000 years ago, which is absolutely wild to me. The authors on the paper itself say, understanding of this aspect of Homo sapon's prehistory may be affected by poor preservation of pathological bone but also by preconceptions about the primitive nature of earlier medical socio cultural practices.

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