"Neanderthal hunting methods involved hand to hoof combat, and injuries were common."
I read sometime back that the injuries of stone-age hunters, both Neanderthals and Humans, resemble those of rodeo cowboys more than anything else in modern times.
Interestingly, such hunting techniques are still in occasional use. A moose hunter leaped onto the back of his prey here a few years ago and beat the beast into submission. It took considerable time, but it was effective since moose are not familiar with this kind of attack: if we still had big cats it might have been a different story. There were witnesses, some of whom still comment on the technique with derision.