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Neanderthal murder mystery reveals a tale of violence and compassion

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Neanderthal whose life came to a brutal end 75,000 years ago when a sharpened wooden spear plunged into the individual’s chest in one of the earliest known examples of a possible homicide. A neat, circular hole in the homin...

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