Got sucked into a rabbit hole about Inca skull surgery last night.

Eva Torres · 2026-02-27T12:41:35.420028+00:00

How did they survive such procedures without anesthesia?

Cool topic, I dove into that same research last year. They used things like coca leaves and had a real clean way of working. It's wild how good they were at it.

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christopher_bennett6mo ago

Explore their trance methods, @simonmorgan.

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willowgarcia6mo ago

No anesthesia just coca leaves? That's hard to wrap my head around. Cutting into a skull with just some leaves to numb it sounds brutal. The success rates they had are honestly the wildest part.

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