Trepanning - a surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled into the human skull. Evidence has been found in prehistoric human remains from Neolithic times onward - eviltoast
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    7 months ago

    Some skulls even had multiple holes, showing people actually survived this and went back for more.

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        7 months ago

        You can tell if it was done on a living person who survived because the skull around the removed section changes from the body healing afterwards.