Research into the reasons for trepanation (2016)

If you're interested in trepanation, there's a fascinating documentary from the late 90s called 'A Hole in the Head' about people performing self-trepanation. Cooky for sure but I've been fascinated ever since. It has made me wonder what percentage of ancient trepanations were done purely for the mysticism of piercing something which shouldn't be pierced.

In 500 years lobotomy devices will be rediscovered by some scholar, or many other psychiatry procedures that are performed up to date, as rituals.

Drilling someone's mind seems to be a common theme among societies.

Thousands of years of evolution to end up making something like that a part of the science corpus. Discouraging.

There is the problem of pre-history and people not writing stuff down. So the topic is always going to be open to interpretation.

People in the 60's did the hole in the head to get high - more oxygen to the brain. Not everyone but a few people. It could have been a thing like that fashion a few years ago with people getting their tongues split in two - detestable as a thought for most people but with some people who get into it.

I thought that there were also necklaces with the bone discs, not seen any stories of that recently.