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Ancient Amputation

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The Amputation of the Left Leg and the Foot

31,000 years ago someone is performing an amputation on this person. The lower left leg bones and the foot appear to have been amputated. This person probably lived between six and nine years following that operation then died of something else. We don't know whether they would have given this person anything likened to rehabilitation in a modern context.

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