In 1897, a French military doctor stole a very valuable artifact from the village of Taberga. It was the skull of a person on whom the healers of the Berber tribe from generation to generation demonstrated their trepanning skill during "professional initiation." From the standpoint of modern scientific ethics, this act looks bad, although this is how it became known about complex skills and rituals in the society of traditional culture, rooted in the deep past. Human culture since ancient times is full of mysteries and mysteries, not all of which are solved. And yet it is interesting to look at the history of our ancestors through... "Hole in the head. "Repanation was part of complex burial rites, masks were created from trepanized skulls, some tribes kept the heads of killed enemies in their own homes! Why are folk healers and healers in demand in society today? How successful were skull vault surgeries in the Stone Age? Did antiseptics come up with in the ancient world? And why was trepanation (the earliest surgical operation in human history) important in the lives of our ancestors? These and many other questions will be answered by the book of Doctor of Historical Sciences Maria Mednikova "Reservoir of the Spirit. History of trepanation in different cultures."