Was Stonehenge the world's first cancer treatment center?
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i don't think the concept of cancer existed when the stone henge was built
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Nope. It was first astronomical center like observatorium. In ancient eqypt they tried to cure cancer with leechs
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No one would ever be able to answer that because there are not records from Stonehenge. It was an astrological center and a place of ritual, it could easily have been a place of healing.
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Yes. They also dealt with eating disorders
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Doubt it somehow. Recently there was a proposed theory about it being some kind of 'healing temple' but this idea wasn't particularly well accepted,as there was very little convincing evidence. However, in most places of religious and ritualistic importance, people would of course pray to their gods/spirits to improve their health--especially, I would imagine, in an era when life was very short. Evidence of cancer in the British neolithic/bronze age is pretty rare as most people didn't live much after 40-45. Tooth absess, broken limbs, leg injuries, arthritis,rickets, malnutrition and cranial trauma were common. Less common but also present was deformity and fluid on the brain. Occasionally skulls have been found with evidence of trepanning-maybe these people suffered mental illness or migraine which the tribal shamans/healers tried to 'let out' by removing a roundel of bone. (Believe it or not, a few patients survived.) Other causes of demise have been of the human caused variety--left sided head injury (delivered by a right handed blow) and death by arrow fire (a man was found at the entrance of Stonehenge shot by at least 6 arrows.)
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