[AMP-L] 3000-year-old Chinese Foot Amputation May Be Oldest Ever [Video]

[Wayne Renardson]

via Ancient Origins:

Researchers in China believe a skeleton found in a tomb in the 
northwest of the country is the earliest known example of foot 
amputation as punishment for a crime, reports the South China Morning 
Post .  

The foot amputation was carried out as a punishment and not for 
medical reasons, the researchers maintain, since a biomedical 
examination failed to identify any cause for the amputation. 

The victim lived for at least five years after the amputation. The team of 
researchers from Peking University, led by postdoctoral researcher Li 
Nan, has published a paper in Acta Anthropologica Sinica on the 
findings of their study.   

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Wayne R.