Bovine brain surgery is pretty rare. So if you were visiting the Neolithic dig site at Champ-Durand in France and you found a roughly 5,200 year-old cow skull with a large hole in it, you’d ...

The skull belongs to a cow (Bos taurus) from a Neolithic site dating back to 3,400 to 3,000 BCE. Discovered in Champ-Durand in France in 1978, the skull has a sizeable hole in it that measures a ...

A previously excavated cow skull from a roughly 5,400- to 5,000-year-old settlement in France contains a ... No damage typical of someone having struck the cow’s head with a club or other weapon ...

April 19 (UPI) --More than 5,000 years ago, a group of people living in what's now France drilled a hole in a cow's head. Researchers believe the ancient bovine skull is the earliest evidence of ...

Humans have been performing cranial surgery and drilling holes in other people’s skulls for a long time. The oldest example of this procedure, called trepanation, dates to 7,300 B.C., accordi… ...