Perhaps this is evidence of a genocide? I have always found it a bit suspicious that our Neanderthal cousins disappeared at about the same time as us Africans turned up, I mean our species seems to have a bit of built in aggression to those considered them rather then us and you can imagine how much that might have mattered between species. On the other hand we have no reason to suppose that Neanderthals where any more angelic than us, so the injury probably is "self inflicted".
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