Neanderthal hunting methods involved hand to hoof combat, and injuries were common. They would wrestle the beast to the ground and beat it with clubs and rocks after running it down or ambushing it. They would summon the women to drag the carcass home and cook it, and then sit around and evaluate their performance such as why so and so was gored, bitten or trampled and how to avoid that next time. The women would also sit around while the beast was cooking and evaluate the performance of the hunters, not necessarily hunting related. There was much joking, some of it not so good-natured, which was the origin of the dramatic form that eventually became formalized as the comedy.
"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.