A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal may have been killed by a wooden spear to the chest
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Cambridge-led excavators in Iraqi Kurdistan found a 15 mm circular hole in a Neanderthal shoulder blade buried for about 75,000 years under 7.5 m of sediment, consistent with a sharpened wooden spear entering the left chest, piercing a lung and major vessels in a likely deliberate strike toward the heart—the oldest proposed hominin fossil evidence of fatal interpersonal violence with a wooden spear. The same individual had survived an earlier severe facial injury, suggesting Neanderthal care.
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