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Missing foot reveals world’s oldest amputation

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The Cave Addi and His Colleagues Were Working in Is Called Liang Tebo

The cave addi and his colleagues were working in is called liang tebo. They are famous for their examples of early human art, such as stencils of hands. But they also found something more. At a close to a mete down, we uncovered a very well defined deliberate burial with stone burial markers and with brightly colored red oca or earth pigment. We can say they likely died around 31 thousand years before present. Finds like this are exceptionally rare.

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