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A group of scientists recently published evidence of what they believe is the first known medical amputation of a limb. They say an individual had their foot removed in an operation in Borneo.
The 31,000-year-old skeleton of a young adult found in a cave in Indonesia that is missing its left foot and part of its left leg reveal the oldest known evidence of an amputation, according to a new study.