Sanctuary wrote: tiompan wrote: Of course . Why not ?
It may not have been as common as a couple of centuries ago or today , for the obvious reasons , age of death being younger , recognition , avoidance of some of the contemporary environmental factors etc . But it has been discovered much earlier than the example linked and even earlier in the neolithic and also much earlier than that e.g. The Neandethal cancer found at Krapina is at least 100,000 YA .The genetic propensity was around a long time ago .
Was wondering what they may have used as a 'cure' in those days other than our friend the shaman and was it any good.
Berries came to mind for some reason and when I checked out the possibilities this popped up, albeit in Oz and much more recent!
https://www.theguardian.com/so[...]by-berry-queensland-rainforest
Maybe the Paleolithic diet was recommended . That's what the old folks did .
Even recognising material as being a "cure" would be difficult never mind the problem of it likely being organic and not surviving .
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