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According to a recent study, scientists found bones buried for 31,000 years in an Indonesian cave. It noted that the individual underwent surgery, indicating stone age medical expertise. Read more about this discovery.

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Tim Maloney, Author provided Modern medicine seems to advance with time thanks to research breakthroughs. Hence it’s often thought that further into the past, only simpler medical practices existed.

Until recently, archaeologists assumed surgery was something only Neolithic farmers had developed, but now a 29000 BC amputee example from Borneo says otherwise.

Signs of successful amputation in a child who lived over 31,000 years ago