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Cold Case #Shanidar: Struck through the chest by a sharpened wooden spear - lethal conflict among #Neanderthals, 75,000 years ago.
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Fatal Neanderthal wound may be earliest evidence of a wooden spear attack on a human ancestor
A circular hole in a 75,000-year-old scapula suggests lethal conflict involving sharpened wooden spears among Neanderthals in the Middle East.