That’s obviously false, because regardless of where they are now cultivated, bananas are “native to the tropical region of Southeast Asia. Bananas are likely to have been first domesticated in Papua New Guinea.” Neandertal ate shellfish, seals, dolphins, in addition to mammoths and pretty much anything available to hunt. That list isn’t known to include colobus monkeys, which are native to parts of eastern Africa, and are unknown in Europe (including AFAI’ve ever seen, the fossil record in Europe), which comprises most of the known range of the Neandertal.
Neandertals were NOT misbegotten chimps.
I’d view the Neanderthal as a very advanced extinct ape, the most advanced member of the same family as chimps and gorillas. We are totally unrelated to any of them other than for the remote possibility that we might have been genetically re-engineered somehow or other from one of them. That’s at least possible, if highly unlikely.
dolphins?
You mean there is evidence that they built sea-going boats fast enough to hunt them? Like to see that...