M0014688: Trephined skull, Neolithic period

Date:
June 1956
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/131/27
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M0014688: Trephined skull, Neolithic period. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced October 2021: Trephined skull, Neolithic period.

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of a trephined skull from a person from the Neolithic period. The skull indicates that the subject of the operation survived for a long time. Reproduced in Lucas-Championnière, Just: Trepanation neolithique, trepanation pre-Colombienne, trepanation des Kabyles, trepantion traditionnelle, Paris : G. Steinheil, 1912

Publication/Creation

June 1956

Physical description

1 photograph sheet film negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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