Sophisticated skull surgery (Image: Istanbul University)
Önder Bilgi talks about his discovery of a razor-sharp 4000-year-old scalpel and what it was originally used for
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At an early Bronze Age settlement called , in the Black Sea province of Samsun in Turkey. The village was home to about 300 people at its peak, around 3200 to 2100 BC. They lived in rectangular, single-storey houses made of logs, which each had a courtyard and oven in the front.
You have found what appear to be scalpels.
That’s right. We have just found two cutting blades made of obsidian, a volcanic glass that forms a…
