ANCIENT INDIA: ‘Brain surgery' during Harappan civilisation?

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TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER?: Scholars have recorded striking similarities in trepanation techniques across the continents - Special Arrangement.

The Harappan skull indicates an "unequivocal case" of a surgical practice known as trepanation, says a research paper

Scientists at the Anthropological Survey of India claim to have found evidence of an ancient brain surgical practice on a Bronze Age Harappan skull.

The skull, believed to be around 4,300 years old, bears an incision that indicates an “unequivocal case” of a surgical practice known as trepanation, says a research paper published in the latest edition ofCurrent Science.

Trepanation, a common means of surgery practised in prehistoric societies starting with the Stone Age, involved drilling or cutting through the skull vault, often to treat head injury or to remove bone splinters or blood clots caused by a blow to the head.

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