Man from Pritschöna
The man from Pritschöna is a skeleton find from 1910 that was found in a gravel pit in Pritschöna , municipality of Schkopau in the Saale district in Saxony-Anhalt . Since the deceased was buried lying on his side with his legs drawn up, dating to the Neolithic is likely. The two holes in the skull are trepanations . The flattened edges of the mutilation demonstrate the successful healing process.
Compared to other regions, the number of prehistoric trepanations documented in Central Germany is high. More than a dozen findings have been described from the Cord Ceramic Culture alone . Most of them come from Saxony-Anhalt. As a rule, middle-aged men were trephined; only very rarely have such interventions on women's skulls come down to us.
The Pritschöna man is preserved in the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle .
literature
- Renate Schaberg: Neurosurgery in the Stone Age. In: Harald Meller (ed.): Beauty, Power and Death. Halle ad Saale 2001, p. 100.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 54 ″ N , 11 ° 57 ′ 45 ″ E