The transition to settled agricultural societies in the Neolithic period was traditionally believed to have sparked the first major innovations in medicine. However, the discovery of the ancient amputation in Borneo challenges this view, indicating that sophisticated medical knowledge and skills may have existed earlier than the Neolithic period.
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