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Bronze Age Brain Surgery Evidence Discovered in Turkey

by Rathi Manohar on September 02, 2010 at 7:25 PM General Health News

Brain surgeries were performed in the Bronze age as evidence in the form of scalpels and skulls were discovered in Ikiztepe, an early Bronze Age settlement in Turkey.

Bronze Age Brain Surgery Evidence Discovered in Turkey

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Onder Bilgi director of excavations at Ikiztepe, has discovered a razor-sharp 4000-year-old scalpel at Ikiztepe in the Black Sea province of Samsun in Turkey.

"We have just found two cutting blades made of obsidian, a volcanic glass that forms a sharp edge when it fractures. The obsidian must have been imported from another region as there is no natural source of it in the area. We found the blades next to a circular clay platform that may have been used for religious ceremonies. The blades are double-sided, about 4 centimetres long, and very, very sharp. They would still cut you today," New Scientist quoted Bilgi as saying.

When asked what made him think they were used for surgery, Bilgi said: "We have found traces of cuts on skulls in a nearby graveyard. Out of around 700 skulls, 14 have these marks. They could only have been cut with a very sharp tool. At this time, 4000 years ago or more, it could only have been an obsidian blade. The cut marks show that a blade was used to make a rectangular opening all the way through the skull. We know that patients lived at least two to three years after the surgery, because the skull has tried to close the wound."

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