Ante Mortem Cranial Trepanation in the Late Bronze Age in Western Siberia

• Published in: International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
• Main Authors: Slepchenko, S. M., Vybornov, A. V., Slavinsky, V. S., Tsybankov, A. A., Matveev, V. E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: Yenisei River; ob river; Siberia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oa.2543; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Foa.2543; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/oa.2543

Abstract We report a case study of cranial trepanation in a male subject 30 to 40 years of age from the Nefteprovod II burial ground in the Anzhevsk archeological site. This burial dates back to the Late Bronze Age, in particular the Karasuk culture located in the Minusinsk Basin on the Yenisei Rive...