Scientists have discovered remarkable evidence that the first known successful limb amputation on a human occurred about 31,000 years ago, according to a new study. A human skeleton dating to the ...

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NEW YORK — 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, ...

The world's earliest limb amputation — dating back 31,000 years — has been discovered in Borneo. In a study published in the journal Nature, a group of archaeologists and palaeopathologists from ...

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