McFreedom

The AP has a story about how they found a Neanderthal skull with an axe mark in it. I was going to link to this with a sarcastic comment about how fairly intelligent primates have been killing each other for tens of thousands of years, but instead I'm linking to it to note its breathtaking lack of information stretched into a full piece. The victim was killed either by someone he knew, or someone he didn't know. And he was nursed back to health by someone a little before he died, except that there is absolutely no evidence for that other than the conjecture that he would've been too dazed to fend for himself. And it includes this gem:

The location and angle of the cut indicate that the individual attacked was either in front of or behind the victim, the Zollikofer's team reported.

Wow. That is a stunning piece of scientific research, to be able to figure out that the attacker was either in front of or - get this - behind the victim. As opposed to, er, what, exactly? Under?