Fatal wound in 75,000-year-old Neanderthal shoulder blade may be the earliest evidence of a wooden spear attack A round hole in the shoulder blade of a Neanderthal found in a cave in Iraqi Kurdistan could be the earliest known case of deadly violence with a wooden spear in the human fossil record, according to Cambridge archaeologists who published their findings in Scientific Reports... More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/10/wound-in-75000-year-old-neanderthal-shoulder-blade/ Follow @archaeology #archaeology #anthropology #neanderthal