| | Trephinning in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | Trephinning appears to have been a truly global phenomenon, found in populations around the world dating as far back as (Latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle east (but later elsewhere)) Neolithic times. |
 | | A study of lesions on seventy-two intentionally-modified crania from (additional info and facts about Cholula) Cholula reflecting both sexes, all ages, and chronological phases spanning 700 years concluded that the lesions appeared to have been deliberately inflicted not for pain relief but for either ritual or preventive medical purposes. |
 | | A study of ten low status burials from Late Classic (additional info and facts about Monte Alban) Monte Alban concluded that the trephinning had been applied non-therapeutically, and, since multiple techniques had been used and since some people had received more than one trephinning, the trephinning had been done experimentally. |
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