Trepanation during the late Neolithic Age from the Mapai cemetery in the Gan‐Qing region, northwestern China—A bioarcheological and experimental study

Abstract

Trepanation skulls have been found clustered in the Gan-Qing region of northwestern China, where the trepanation also demonstrated more signs of healing than those from other areas. In this study, two skulls belonging to the pre-Qiang people from the Mapai cemetery in the late Neolithic period in the Gan-Qing region with trepana-