Advanced Ancient Medical Knowledge

Apart from enigmatic works in stone there are also telltale signs of extremely advanced

surgical procedures that were performed in days long past. These come in the form of numerous

skulls from the Neolithic age that appear to have been trepanned. Trepanning involves inserting

plates into a patient’s skull. It’s a delicate and quite advanced medical procedure. Richard

Mooney explains the process in his book

 colony earth in this way:

"Trepanning today is an operation in which a section of bone in the skull is removed, either to

ease pressure caused by a tumor or blood clot, or to remove splinters of bone caused by a skull

fracture, and the cavity closed by a plate. The operation is hardly minor and requires great skill

and care to perform. It is difficult to believe that Neolithic man - if he was, as has been thought,

extremely primitive - could have carried out such operations with the crudest techniques, a flint

knife, and no anesthetics or notions of hygiene."

Evidence shows that the survivors of this ancient cranial treatment also went on to live for

years afterwards, this is very remarkable considering that up until quite recent times, patients

undergoing any type of trepanning had a very high mortality rate due to infection, blood

poisoning and the other obvious complications involved with cranial surgery. Still more evidence

of ancient trepanning also comes to us from the former Soviet Union where examination of

several skulls unearthed at Ishtikunuy near Lake Sevan in Armenia, indicate a similar highly

developed technique of cranial surgery employed over 4000 years ago! One patient had obviously

suffered a serious head injury and the prehistoric surgeon had neatly plugged the fracture by

using a carefully shaped wedge that had been delicately crafted from animal bone. The skull

showed obvious signs that the patients bone tissue had then grown over and enveloped the plug

which adequately indicates that the person had survived the operation and lived for quite some

time afterwards.

Another similar skull was found revealing that one woman had been operated upon to remove

an inch wide object that had smashed through her skull, penetrating directly into the brain but the

surgeon had cut around the object to remove the splinters and again closed the wound using a

section of crafted animal bone. Such an operation would have been incredibly complex and

would also have undoubtedly involved brain surgery and yet the growth of the bone over the

wound again shows that this patient of prehistoric times was then able to live on for many years

afterwards.