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Evidence of Surgery 4,000 Years Ago Uncovered in Central Asia - Archaeology Magazine

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Burial of two Oxus children, Uzbekistan LECCE, ITALY—Evidence of trepanation has been discovered on the skull of a 4,000-year-old child whose remains were unearthed in southern Uzbekistan by a team of archaeologists from Italy and Uzbekistan, according to a Live Science report. The five-year-old had been buried alongside a younger child at the site of the Oxus settlement of Djarkutan. The surgery had been performed with stone or bone tools, perh…

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