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Not to be gruesome but these folks were constantly chopping each other up with sharp bits of metal. It was the major hobby and profession of much of the adult
by carapace 4y ago
Not to be gruesome but these folks were constantly chopping each other up with sharp bits of metal. It was the major hobby and profession of much of the adult male population, eh?
- MichaelCollins 4y agoI don't think many soldiers are anatomy experts. Chopping somebody up in combat is different than taking a body apart piece by piece and studying the way the organs are. Accurate knowledge of human anatomy in the modern era can be credited to the sometimes clandestine dissection of cadavers by doctors and other medical researchers, not the armies who merely chopped people up.
- carapace 4y agoI'm just pointing out that we don't have to postulate human sacrifice to account for people knowing what organs looked like. They would have had occasion to see them for themselves often enough during wartime, and cleaning up after battles. > Accurate knowledge of human anatomy in the modern era can be credited to the sometimes clandestine dissection of cadavers by doctors and other medical researchers, not the armies who merely chopped people up. Sure, sure, but we're talking about fairly accurate sculptures (? I haven't looked yet) of organs from an earlier era, eh?
- posterboy 4y agoNot at all. The piacenza liver is a blob for all I know.
- midislack 4y agoEverybody in those days would have butchered their own animals. A pig or deer has the same compliment of organs that a person does. Anatomists were not the first people to discover or catalog organs.