Do n’t worry : that vertical cut was made after the depicted object cash in one’s chips . In fact , it ’s an incredibly rarefied lesson of erect skull dissection , most likely perform at the final stage of the 1800s as a teaching aid .
The skull was discovered by Jenna Dittmar from the University of Cambridge in the UK . Found in a dusty part of the University ’s collection , depth psychology of the cut reveals that it was done with reasonable preciseness . Unlike some of the samples that Dittmar has studied — such as sampling from the 1700s , where she noticed aesculapian practitioners had “ sawed off the top of a skull horizontally , like a boil ball , ” reports New Scientist . Nice . [ New Scientist ]
Image by Jenna Dittmar
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