A person’s limb is removed for various health reasons amputation According to a new discovery, the process was even applied tens of thousands of years ago. Archaeologists excavating a cave in Indonesia made an important discovery in the skeleton, which was determined to belong to a young human.

archaeologists, that the leg was amputated in the skeleton of a young person found the findings. According to the study published in the journal Nature, the teen’s amputation was done while he was still in childhood. The most interesting thing is that the skeleton 31 thousand years it was.

The boy survived several years after the amputation:

While examining the skeleton, scientists discovered that in the leg bone growth and healing scars Stumbled upon. These scars indicate that the young person has recovered from the amputation and live another six to nine years showed. But he turned out to have died in his late teens or early twenties.

So, how did they find out that this child was amputated instead of forcibly? While scientists can’t definitively answer this question, the child’s skeleton holds great clues. Because he showed a healing process, and in this process he signs that the young person is being cared for was found. Therefore, the boy saw the loss of his leg as an operation rather than a punishment or ritual.

The new discovery also heightened curiosity about 31 thousand years ago. Scientists at the time what kind of stone surgical instruments would have been used? began to investigate.