Nature, Published online: 07 September 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-02340-4
Evidence that a child in a hunter-gatherer society survived amputation offers a remarkable insight into the origins of surgery. It challenges the current view that such procedures emerged alongside farming some 10,000 years ago.
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