Publication year: 2012
Source:World Neurosurgery
Xianli Lv, Zhongxue Wu
The term trepanation describes the removal of sections of bone from the cranium. Although others may have made earlier reference to trepanation, Chinese archeologists have made aware of a skull discovered at the Early Neolithic site Dawenko from approximately 4300 to 2500 BC, Taian, Shandong, China, in 1995, and, after careful examination of the specimen, suggested that the procedure had been performed on a living patient who subsequently survived. Archeological evidence supports that the practice was indeed widespread.
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