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The bones belong to a young individual from Borneo Island.A team of scientists has unearthed a 31,000-year-old human skeleton with a part of its lower left leg surgically amputated, according to a report in Newsweek. This is believed to be the earliest case of a limb amputation ever found, the outlet further said. The scientists have discovered this skeleton in an Indonesian cave called Liang Tebo.A description about the skeleton has been published in the journal Nature. It says that the bones belong to a young individual from Borneo Island who may have had a surgery to amputate the left lower leg. According to the study, the boy not only survived the surgery but lived for six to nine years more, the outlet further said.Before this discovery, the earliest case of a successful amputation...