How do archaeologists know that trepanning happened when the cavemen were alive? They could have died, their skin rotten away, and their skulls – some caveman’s art project.

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How do archaeologists know that trepanning happened when the cavemen were alive? They could have died, their skin rotten away, and their skulls – some caveman’s art project.

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Answer 1

Because when bones have been broken in some way and then healed you can see that, so the trepanned skulls have the round hole, with regrown bone around them.