Trepanation: History, Discovery, TheoryRobert Arnott, Stanley Finger, Chris Smith This volume will look at the history of trepanation, the identification of skulls, the tools used to make the cranial openings, and theories as to why trepanation might have been performed many thousands of years ago. |
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adult ancient Anthropology archaeological Aymyrlyg Bennike brain bregma Bronze Age Bull Soc Anthrop burial cemetery century circular cranial surgery cranial trepanation craniotomy cranium cultures cylindrical saw death depressed fracture diameter Diseases in Antiquity drilling dura mater early edges epilepsy evidence examples excavated Figure fragments frontal bone Galen Gokhman grave head injury headache Heister Hippocrates Hippocratic History Horsley Inca incision individual instrument Iron Age lesion Lisowski London Lorenz Heister male margins medicine medieval Mesolithic method Mexico Monte Alban Museum Neolithic Oaxaca occipital occipital bone ofthe opening operation Paleopathology parietal bone patient Paul Broca perforation period Peru Peruvian population post-mortem practice probably procedure Prunières recovered region removed reported right parietal sagittal suture Sandison scalp scraping showed skeletal remains skeletons skull fracture South specimens Squier stone suggest surgeon surgical survived suture technique tion trauma trépanation trepanation holes trepanned skulls trephine Vasilyevka ventricles wound