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A 31,000-year-old skeleton found in the Liang Tebo cave of Indonesian Borneo has a surgically amputated leg. It is by far the oldest surgical amputation ever found, and completely upends our understanding of the development of prehistoric medicine. The previous record-holder, a Neolithic farmer with an amputated left forearm found in France, is only about […]