75,000-year-old Neanderthal may have been killed by a wooden spear

A 15-millimetre circular hole in a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal shoulder blade from a cave in Iraqi Kurdistan suggests the individual was killed by a sharpened wooden spear that entered the left chest and passed through a lung. Cambridge researchers say the rounded wound points to a wooden tip, making it possibly the oldest fossil evidence of fatal violence with such a weapon.