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Chopping wood or similar, maybe? I think it’d be a miracle they didn’t bleed out but I’m not a doctor. The next sentence in the article suggests it couldn’t ha
by CSSer 4y ago
Chopping wood or similar, maybe? I think it’d be a miracle they didn’t bleed out but I’m not a doctor. The next sentence in the article suggests it couldn’t have been an accident but the reasoning seems odd.
- rippercushions 4y agoCauterizing wounds with fire as a way of stopping bleeding out and infection has been known for a long time. Alternatively, when slave boys were castrated/emasculated to become eunuchs, they would be buried up their necks in sand until the wound healed. Apparently the death rate was still massive though.
- scohesc 4y agoDo you have any reading material about this? I'm genuinely curious what burying surgical wounds in sand would do to help encourage healing... Or maybe it didn't?
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- Rebelgecko 4y agoWhat kind of tools did they use to chip wood back then?
- MichaelCollins 4y agoHand axes, probably formed using with biface knapping but possibly with ground edges. But either way, hafted axes aren't known to have existed that far back, so a leg-severing axe accident seems implausible to me.
- bayesian_horse 4y agoThey probably knew to bind off the limb.
- nxmnxm99 4y agoCutting wood with a tool sharp enough 30k years ago to hack off a limb in one fell swoop is... unlikely lol