Thousand-year-old British skull shows cranial surgery.

Fenris

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Tue Oct-05-04 01:13 PM
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Thousand-year-old British skull shows cranial surgery.

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Medieval surgeons were advanced

Surgeons were carrying out complicated skull operations in medieval times, the remains of a body found at an archaeological dig show.

A skull belonging to a 40-year-old peasant man, who lived between 960 and 1100AD, is the firmest evidence yet of cranial surgery, say its discoverers.

The remains, found in Yorkshire, show the man survived an otherwise fatal blow to the head thanks to surgery.

Nearly 700 skeletons were unearthed by English Heritage at a site near Malton. Scientists have been examining the remains from the now deserted village of Wharram Percy.

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