Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/05/29/extraordinary-4000-year-old-skull-reveals-medical-milestone.html
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I disagree with this interpretation. This is just further evidence for the existence of the ancient skeleton people whose existence inspired Halloween costumes and stop-motion Ray Harryhausen movies.
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Trephenation is a known thing. What’s amazing is that these researchers have never apparantly heard of it.
I think they probably are aware of it, I think it’s the specifics of the surgery that they find interesting, specifically going after cancer… 
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The researchers talk about cut marks on the skulls around the lesions, but don’t seem to be describing trephenation.
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I’m certainly not discounting the possibility(or, across a sufficiently large sample size, virtual certainty) of female combatants; but it seems…a trifle optimistic…to see injuries consistent with violent trauma and think “warrior” rather than “estimates of the civilian casualty ratio tend to be at least 1:1 for conflicts where data is available.”
The fact that they were poking at cancer seems much more intriguing.
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