31,000-Year-Old Skeleton May Be Earliest Known Human Amputee

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31,000-Year-Old Skeleton May Be Earliest Known Human Amputee
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A 31,000-year-old skeleton discovered in a cave in Borneo may be the earliest evidence of a surgical amputation in humans and has scientists rethinking the time of medical knowledge advancement. MedTwitter SurgTwitter

A 31,000-year-old skeleton discovered in a cave in Borneo may be the earliest evidence of a surgical amputation in humans.

The finding has scientists rethinking the idea that medical knowledge advanced when people switched from foraging to farming societies at the end of the Ice Age. The people who lived in Borneo 31,000 years ago were foragers.

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