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Ancient Amputation

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Amputation in Borneo

Body found buried in Borneo is missing a foot and lower leg. Age of death suggests surgery occurred in their pre-teen to early teenage years. They went on to live into adulthood, dying and being buried in Leang Tebok. During that time, other signals within the skeleton suggest they weren't highly mobile. Some pressure was occasionally put on their stump, facilitating their ossification on the amputation surface.

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