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The burial contained two non-adult individuals, aged approximately three and five. The older child’s skull shows unmistakable signs of trepanation, a deliberate opening in the cranial bone likely made with stone or bone tools.
Archaeologists in Uzbekistan have discovered a 4,000-year-old child’s skull with signs of cranial trepanation at Djarkutan, the earliest documented