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A Neanderthal’s Shoulder Blade from Shanidar Cave May Bear Evidence of the Oldest Known Fatal Spear Wound

15 October 2026 at 18:04
The shoulder blade is such a wide and flat bone that in some areas it becomes almost translucent when held up to the light. That is why it is rare to find it whole, even in modern burials, and why it so surprised archaeologists from the University of Cambridge that from Shanidar Cave, in Iraqi […]

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