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Adam Brumm, The Conversation

In 31,000-year-old grave in Borneo, researchers find signs of world’s earliest successful amputation

It suggests that human medical knowledge and surgical procedures were far more advanced in the distant past of our species than previously thought.

Tim Ryan Maloney, The Conversation
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Adam Brumm, The Conversation
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Adhi Oktaviana, The Conversation
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India Ella Dilkes-Hall, The Conversation
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Maxime Aubert, The Conversation
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Melandri Vlok, The Conversation
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Renaud Joannes-Boyau, The Conversation
· Sep 10, 2022 · 11:30 pm
How we discovered world’s oldest known cave painting of animals in a secret Indonesian valley

Dating to at least 45,500 years ago, the art portrays images of the Sulawesi warty pig.

Adam Brumm, The Conversation
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Adhi Oktaviana, The Conversation
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Basran Burhan, The Conversation
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Maxime Aubert, The Conversation
· Jan 15, 2021 · 11:30 pm
Is this 40,000-year-old Borneo cave painting the world’s oldest figurative artwork?

Rock art discovered in Borneo’s limestone caves in the 1990s are thought to be older than earlier thought.

Pindi Setiawan, The Conversation
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Adam Brumm, The Conversation
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Maxime Aubert, The Conversation
· Nov 15, 2018 · 07:30 pm