M0003760: Various angles showing trephining in skull from Peru

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Surgery of the frontal sinus of male skull, Peru

Reproduction of a photograph showing various angles of a male skull that had surgery of the frontal sinus. It appears to be quite a rare surgery and there was no evidence of injury as to why this trephining happened. The skull is from the prehistory fort Cinco Cerros in Peru.

December 1933

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8 x 11 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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