Neolithic-era medicine may have been more advanced than thought

[TylerDurden]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7072726/Stone-Age-amputee-proves-Neolithic-medics-more-advanced-than-previously-thought.html

It's so annoying. By "Stone Age" I naturally assumed, up till now, that that term referred to the palaeolithic, but it seems I was mistaken and it covers part of the Neolithic era as well. It does confuse things a bit.

[roony]

Actually this is a better indication of the level of technology they had :

"Stone Age doctors were previously known to have performed trephinations, making incisions in the skull, but not amputations."


Trephination, is a far more sophisticated form of medicine then amputation, this proves they had technology in excess of just herbs & sage, they had real technology


That hand was more likely to have been amputated in a battle, then surgery, if they have the technology to perform complex surgery like Trephination, they had the technology to heal or attach a hand back, easily

[Raw Kyle]

Trephination is drilling a hole in the skull. I could do that a lot easier then reattaching a hand.