BRISBANE, Sept 8: Modern medicine seems to advance with time thanks to research breakthroughs. Hence it’s often thought that further into the past, only simpler medical practices existed. The medical expertise of foraging communities such as hunter-gatherers has been thought to be rudimentary and unchanging. It’s been argued that shifts towards settled agricultural life within the past 10,000 years were what created new health problems and advances in medical culture; this includes surgery. Published today in the journal Nature, we […]
Until recently, it was believed that complex medical practices, including amputations, were developed around 10,000 years ago. The earliest example of an. 08.09.2022, Sputnik International