www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27100920
Wait, the steppes weren't original in that either?
thehindu.com/books/archaeometallurgy-of-indus-civilisation/article2913312.ece
Archaeo-metallurgy of Indus civilisation, 20 Feb 2012
(The full article is worth a read)
Just saying - before steppists try to copyright/patent/trademark trepanation too next, as some "steppe IE" innovation. You know, the way they tried with wheeled carts (fail), chariots (fail), horse-riding and horse-domestication (fail), metallurgy (fail), "PIE" (fail, that's why Patterson says they need to look for "PIE" in Caucasus, because Yamna can't be "PIE" urheimat; steppes not even "Indo-Iranian" urheimat as per Patterson) etc.
But if there was any copying of this, the direction would be from Neolithic India to Eneolithic Russia.
(^Stating this pre-emptively. Since if it had been in the opposite direction, steppists would have made the claim, right?)
Quote:2016 Apr 21. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.22996. [Epub ahead of print]
New cases of trepanations from the 5th to 3rd millennia BC in Southern Russia in the context of previous research: Possible evidence for a ritually motivated tradition of cranial surgery?
Gresky J1, Batieva E2, Kitova A3, Kalmykov A4, Belinskiy A5, Reinhold S6, Berezina N7.
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OBJECTIVES:
It is a big challenge to diagnose the motives behind trepanations in prehistoric crania. Surgical-therapeutic attempts may be apparent by the presence of fractures, however, ritual or nonmedical motives are rarely supported by visible evidence in the bones. This article presents data on the trepanations of several individuals from South Russia dating to the Eneolitic and Bronze Age that may indicate a ritual procedure. In these crania an operation was performed in the identical location, the midline, furthermore in one of the most dangerous places, on the obelion. No evidence for traumatic or other pathological reasons for performing the operations was observable.
Wait, the steppes weren't original in that either?
thehindu.com/books/archaeometallurgy-of-indus-civilisation/article2913312.ece
Archaeo-metallurgy of Indus civilisation, 20 Feb 2012
(The full article is worth a read)
Quote:A.R. Sankhyan and G.H Weber draw our attention to a multi-trephines skull from the Neolithic pit-dwellers of Burzahom in the Kashmir valley, probably suggestive of the practice of trepanation in prehistoric India, and push the archaeology of surgery into a hoary past.
Just saying - before steppists try to copyright/patent/trademark trepanation too next, as some "steppe IE" innovation. You know, the way they tried with wheeled carts (fail), chariots (fail), horse-riding and horse-domestication (fail), metallurgy (fail), "PIE" (fail, that's why Patterson says they need to look for "PIE" in Caucasus, because Yamna can't be "PIE" urheimat; steppes not even "Indo-Iranian" urheimat as per Patterson) etc.
But if there was any copying of this, the direction would be from Neolithic India to Eneolithic Russia.
(^Stating this pre-emptively. Since if it had been in the opposite direction, steppists would have made the claim, right?)