31,000-year-old skeleton with leg amputation earliest known evidence of surgery

theguardian.com

Why not a weapon injury? Because they didn't have sharp swords etc 31000 years ago? Well, we're to believe they had sharp surgical instruments...

This doesn't add up.

Sometimes I think that this amputation could also be the result of a punishment. Pardon my dark fantasy. ;)

But then they wouldn’t have done the post-op care

Depends how dedicated they were to the punishment process.

Or animal bite.