I’m not saying I find it compelling evidence, but they note that ‘[t]he team looked elsewhere for evidence of finger amputation in other societies and found mor

I’m not saying I find it compelling evidence, but they note that ‘[t]he team looked elsewhere for evidence of finger amputation in other societies and found more than 100 instances where it had been practic[c]ed. “This practice was clearly invented independently multiple times,” they state.‘ And people have done (and continue to do) some rather gruesome and barbaric things based on religious beliefs. Digit mutilation seems rather benign, really.