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

Let's Learn Everything!

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Is There Evidence That We Were Amputating the Ends of People's Fingers?

There is tentative evidence that we were amputating the ends of people's fingers in a ritual format around 3,000 years ago. And what they were seeing was literally that the ring finger was physically shorter than it should have been. It goes to show you that there's so much like there's, there's just too much missing in our understanding of that.

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