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Copper Age woman survived two skull surgeries up to 4,500 years ago (www.livescience.com)
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Thousands of years ago, a woman underwent two surgeries to her head โ€” and survived both procedures, her skull reveals.

Scientists in Spain made the discovery after analyzing the woman's skeletal remains, which were unearthed at a Copper Age burial site known as Camino del Molino, located in Caravaca de la Cruz in southeastern Spain, according to a study published in the December issue of the International Journal of Paleopathology.

The woman, who was between 35 and 45 years old when she died, was one of 1,348 individuals found at the funerary site, which was used from 2566 to 2239 B.C. However, unlike the other skeletons, her skull showed evidence of a series of trepanations, which are surgical procedures that involved drilling or scraping holes through the skull to expose the dura mater, the outermost layer of tissue surrounding the brain and spinal cord, as a form of medical treatment.

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[โ€“] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the surgeries were so good then why is she dead?

[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every surgery ultimately results in a fatality eventually.

[โ€“] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ooh, my favorite surgery factoid... Robert Liston had a patient die of infection after a surgery, as did his assistant, whose fingers he accidentally amputated in the process. A witness to this event died of shock.

Liston's surgery had a 300% fatality rate.

[โ€“] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

The curse of surgery!

[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Researchers think she lived several months after the second surgery.

Success!

[โ€“] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

She may have survived them, but she didn't enjoy them.

[โ€“] Muddbiker@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Collections can finally stop looking for her...

[โ€“] eran_morad@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Bruv, that sounds fucking brutal.