TrepanationRobert 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. |
Contents
Trepanation in Europe | 53 |
Trepanation in Africa Asia and The Americas | 189 |
Trepanation in Western Medicine | 251 |
Global Perspectives and Future Research | 305 |
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adult ancient Anthropology archaeological Aymyrlyg Bennike brain bregma Broca Bronze Age Bull Soc Anthrop burial cemetery century circular cranial surgery cranial trepanation craniotomy cranium cultures cylindrical saw death depressed fracture diameter Diseases drilling dura mater early edges epilepsy evidence examples excavated Figure fragments frontal bone Galen Gokhman grave head injury headache Heister Hippocrates Hippocratic Horsley Inca incision individual instrument intentionally left blank Iron Age lesion Lisowski Lorenz Heister male margins medicine medieval Mesolithic method Monte Alban Museum Neolithic Oaxaca occipital occipital bone opening operation palaeopathology parietal bone patient Paul Broca period Peru population post-mortem practice probably procedure Prunières recovered region removed reported right parietal scalp scraping showed signs of healing skeletal remains skeletons skull fracture South specimens Squier stone suggest surgeon surgical survived suture technique temporal tion trauma trépanation trepanation defects trepanation holes trepanned skulls trephine Tuva Vasilyevka ventricles wound