Skull with frontal trepanation

"Los Millares Society

Common diseases were treated with herbs and healing plants. However, they practiced surgery such as the extraction of a tumour from an individual ´s head through trepanation (perforation of the skull ) with surgical equipment made in flint and copper.

Material: Bone
Dimensions: Maximum width 14,50 cm; Maximum length 20 cm
Provenance: Los Blanquizares de Lébor, Totana (Murcia): Burial cave/Unknown
Excavation,1928, Cuadrado Ruiz, Juan"