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Why our ancestors drilled holes in each other's skulls - Racheal Edoamen - 09-24-2019
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160826-why-our-ancestors-drilled-holes-in-each-others-skulls
Why our ancestors drilled holes in each other's skulls
Thousands of years ago, people were performing a form of surgery called "trepanation" that involves boring holes through a person's skull. For a large part of human prehistory, people around the world practised trepanation: a crude surgical procedure that involves forming a hole in the skull of a living person by either drilling, cutting or scraping away layers of bone with a sharp implement.
To date, thousands of skulls bearing signs of trepanation have been unearthed at archaeological sites across the world.
This was mainly done as there were beliefs that this would help with mental illnesses as well as various other sickness. Considering the answer to curing most sickness qat the time was to use a good leech, this practise was not strange. Although this was an actual solution it was often misused, as unqualified people attempted use this to fix homosexuality, as well as to cure people with schizophrenia and mental instability.
RE: Why our ancestors drilled holes in each other's skulls - Radu Almasanu - 09-25-2019
What I would like to know the most is the survival rate of this surgery, how did the brain survive this or better yet if people survived this surgery how did the brain evolve to function with a hole in the skull because filling that hole may never happen, and what's the difference between someone with a hole in their head compared to a normal/average person, so many questions, but in the end who thought that putting a hole in a person's head will help their pain or mental illness, and how they come to this conclusion. it's kinda fascinating/sad how people were willing to do this knowing that there might be a high chance of dying or if you survive you never will be the same. man people really have come a long way if you look back at it now.
RE: Why our ancestors drilled holes in each other's skulls - Idris_A - 09-27-2019
(09-25-2019, 11:10 AM)Radu Almasanu Wrote: What I would like to know the most is the survival rate of this surgery, how did the brain survive this or better yet if people survived this surgery how did the brain evolve to function with a hole in the skull because filling that hole may never happen, and what's the difference between someone with a hole in their head compared to a normal/average person, so many questions, but in the end who thought that putting a hole in a person's head will help their pain or mental illness, and how they come to this conclusion. it's kinda fascinating/sad how people were willing to do this knowing that there might be a high chance of dying or if you survive you never will be the same. man people really have come a long way if you look back at it now.What is really personally disheartening is that some people were not give a choice and we forced to do it just so they could be seen as normal and fit into society.
Imagine being forced to undergo a highly deadly surgery just because you were eccentric or different.