It Appears That Caveman Ugh,

was more medically skilled than we had at first thought, if new evedence at at Buthiers-Boulancourt, about 40 miles (65km) south of Paris is to be believed, scientists unearthed evidence of the surgery during work on an Early Neolithic tomb, they found that a remarkable degree of medical knowledge had been used to remove the left forearm of an elderly man about 6,900 years ago, even more incredible patient seems to have been anaesthetised, the conditions were aseptic, the cut was clean and the wound was treated, according to the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap), one of the intriguing aspects, was the absence of forearm and hand bones, a battery of biological, radiological and other tests showed that the humerus bone had been cut above the trochlea indent at the end “in an intentional and successful amputation”, Mrs Buquet-Marcon said that the patient, who is likely to have been a warrior, might have damaged his arm in a fall, animal attack or battle, the discovery demonstrates that advanced medical knowledge and complex social rules were present in Europe in about 4900BC, and that major surgery was likely to have been more common than we realised, Mrs Buquet-Marcon said, so caveman Ugh was not as simple as we had first thought.