[The oldest treated bone fracture in Croatia--130,000 years ago].
BACKGROUND
Numerous hypotheses canibalismus on the cause of Neanderthal death have been proposed, including injury and inappropriate medical trreatment. We aimed to determine the etiology and pathogenesis of the Neanderthal by comparison of historical information with current clinicopathologic knowledge.


METHODS
Evaluation of Neanderthal bones, original Dragutin Gorjanovic reports, and of historical documents. The clinicopathologic data from 135,000-year-old bones were used for comparison with the Mans bones.


METHODS
Diagnostic x-ray procedure for fractured bones with Siemens x-rays.


CONCLUSIONS
Our analysis suggested successful healing of the fractures of the clavicle, radial bone and cranial bone trauma. Neanderthals treated successfully fracture and wounds and amputated forearm with poor result.
Rajković
Zoran
Z
Zabok General Hospital, Zabok, Croatia. zrajkovic@net.hr
Krklec
Vlasta
V
D000818:Animals; D017523:Croatia; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000266:history* / Q000628:therapy; D049690:History, Ancient; D015186:Hominidae; D006801:Humans; D010164:Paleopathology