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Saturday Afternoon Strings: Chris Thile and Michael Daves at NPR

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austin_blue12/21/2013 3:32:53 pm PST

re: #1 freetoken

They have holes in their heads…

A STUDY OF PERUVIAN TREPANATION IN 1000 YEAR OLD SKULLS

Surgeons have been saw crazy for a long time.

Saw a trepanation exhibit at the Smithsonian a few years back. It was often used to allow “bad spirits” to leave the body. Think schizophrenia. They had one poor guy’s skull that looked like chicken wire. Must have been a hardy soul to survive having thirty, quarter-sized chunks of his skull taken out over decades.