WHY OUR ANCESTORS DRILLED HOLES IN EACH OTHER’S SKULLS
Thousands of years ago, people were performing a form of surgery called ‘trepanation’ that involves boring holes through a person’s skull. Anthropological accounts of 20th-Century trepanations in Africa and Polynesia suggest that, in these cases at least, trepanation was performed to treat pain – for instance, the pain caused by skull trauma or neurological disease. Trepanation may also have had a similar purpose in prehistory. Many trepanned skulls show signs of cranial injuries or neurological diseases.
Disponível em: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160826-why-our-ancestors-drilled-holes-in-each-others-skulls. Acesso 14 mar 2019.
Existe evidência de que a trepanação acontecia há mais de 7 mil anos e era praticada em diversos lugares, como Grécia Antiga, América do Norte e do Sul, África, Polinésia e Leste da Ásia.
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