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Skull & Pleistocene mammoth femur, Bronze Age. The skull shows four healed trepannings, excavated from Jericho, 2200-2000 BC. Diseased femur with large bone cysts from a small mammoth, Pleistocene Age, Alaska, USA, between 3 million and 100,000 years old. Trepanning (cutting holes in the skull bone) was probably intended to release evil spirits believed to cause illness.
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Science Museum/London/Great Britain
Unique Identifier
ART422543
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Public
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3504px × 2479px
Photo Credit
SSPL/Science Museum / Art Resource, NY
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Bone
Bronze Age (3000-1000 BCE)
Jericho, Israel
Mammoth
Skull
Trephination