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Prosthetic leg with hoofed foot discovered in ancient Chinese tomb

By Owen Jarus
Published January 12, 2016
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A 2,200-year-old prosthetic leg was discovered in a tomb in China and
would've been worn by a man with a deformed knee.

A 2,200-year-old prosthetic leg was discovered in a tomb in China and
would've been worn by a man with a deformed knee. (Images courtesy
Chinese Archaeology)

The 2,200-year-old remains of a man with a deformed knee attached to a
prosthetic leg tipped with a horse hoof have been discovered in a tomb
in an ancient cemetery near Turpan, China.

The tomb holds the man and a younger woman, who may or may not have
known the male occupant, scientists say.

"The excavators soon came to find that the left leg of the male
occupant is deformed, with the patella, femur and tibia [fused]
together and fixed at 80 [degrees]," archaeologists wrote in a paper
published recently in the journal Chinese Archaeology. [[178]In Photos:
Ancient King's Mausoleum Discovered in China]

The fused knee would have made it hard for the man to walk or ride
horses without the [179]prosthetic leg, the researchers found. The man
couldn't straighten his left leg out so the prosthetic leg, when
attached, allowed the left leg to touch the floor when walking. The
horse hoof at the bottom of the prosthetic leg acted like a foot.

The prosthetic leg was "made of poplar wood; it has seven holes along
the two sides with leather tapes for attaching it to the deformed leg,"
the archaeologists wrote. "The lower part of the prosthetic leg is
rendered into a cylindrical shape, wrapped with a scrapped ox horn and
tipped with a horsehoof, which is meant to augment its adhesion and
abrasion."

"The severe wear of the top implies that it has been in use for a long
time," they added.

Radiocarbon dating indicates that the tomb in Turpan (also spelled
Turfan) dates back around 2,200 years. The only other known prosthetic
leg in the world that dates to that time is part of a [180]bronze
leg found in Capua, Italy. That leg was destroyed in a bombing raid
during World War II. [181]Prosthetic toes, dating to earlier times,
have been found in Egypt.

Who used it?

Two other studies, published in the journals Bridging Eurasia and
Quaternary International, provide more details about the man who used
the hoofed leg. Researchers estimate that the man was about 5 feet 7
inches tall, and between 50 and 65 years old when he died.

What caused the odd fusion of his left knee joint? "Different causes,
like [182]inflammation in or around the joint, rheumatism or trauma,
might have resulted in this pathological change," archaeologists wrote
in the journal Bridging Eurasia.

Source .... : http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/01/12/prosthetic-leg-with-hoofed-foot-discovered-in-ancient-chinese-tomb.html
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