Skeleton missing lower left leg and dated to 31,000 years ago provides the earliest known evidence for surgical limb removal.
The left tibia and left fibula of an individual who lived some 31,000 years ago show healed amputation sites.The skeleton of a person who lived 31,000 years ago bears hallmarks of the deliberate removal of their lower left leg — the earliest known evidence of surgical amputationDiscovered on the island of Borneo, the remains pre-date the previous oldest known case of limb amputation
Archaeologists once described southeast Asia “as a cultural backwater”, says study co-author India Dilkes-Hall, an archaeologist at the University of Western Australia in Perth. “There’s always been this trope that not a lot happened there.” The lower third of the person’s leg was missing, and the tibia and fibula — the bones between the knee and ankle — ended in a clean cut. This level of precision indicates that the limb was not lost in an accident or an animal attack. The bones lacked the type of mark typically left by an infection, suggesting that the wound had been cleaned and protected from contamination.
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