Our ancestors' medical knowledge is better than we thought.
He avoided problems like fatal blood loss that could have occurred as a result of the operation, indicating that the leg had been carefully amputated during his boyhood.
The team also claims that in order to expose and navigate the veins, vessels, and nerves and prevent deadly blood loss and infection, the surgeon or surgeons who carried out the operation 31,000 years ago must have had an in-depth understanding of limb anatomy and the muscular and circulatory systems.
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