Did prehistoric people ever get killed when they went hunting?

Answer 1

Setting aside the issue of some kind of "dumb" accident, it is almost certain that some prehistoric hunters were killed when actually hunting. Some of the animals they hunted were larger and much more powerful than the hunters themselves, and given the reactions of animals, something disastrous could occur in situations like we imagine regarding hunters. Yes, some hunters back then were undoubtedly killed by animals they hunted.

The hunters of prehistory had the most crude weapons. They were starkly simple, and cannot begin to be compared to the contemporary hunters' weapons. The weapons ancients used included hand axes and spears. They were in many cases elegant weapons, but they lacked the stand-off killing power of a rifle, or even a long bow. That means that the hunters had to be fairly close to animals they were trying to bring down. And in some cases hunters became casualties of the hunt.