Bovine brain surgery is pretty rare. So if you were visiting the Neolithic dig site at Champ-Durand in France and you found a roughly 5,200 year-old cow skull with a large hole in it, you’d ...

A previously excavated cow skull from a roughly 5,400- to 5,000-year-old settlement in France contains a surgically created hole on the right side, a new study finds.

The skull belongs to a cow (Bos taurus) from a Neolithic site dating back to 3,400 to 3,000 BCE. Discovered in Champ-Durand in France in 1978, the skull has a sizeable hole in it that measures a ...

More than 5,000 years ago, humans living in what's now France drilled a hole in a cow's head. Researchers think it's an example early medical experimentation.

Humans have been performing cranial surgery and drilling holes in other people’s skulls for a long time. The oldest example of this procedure, called trepanation, dates to 7,300 B.C., accordi… ...

Driver unearths giant skull of 6ft 'cow' which roamed the country 7,500 years ago By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Updated: 19:47 EDT, 6 December 2009 . 31. View comments.