Notice all the academia always portrayed the Neanderthal as light skinned a brutish dumb beastly animal. Lo and behold the Neanderthal dna gene markers are found in all Caucasian Asian races they did not die out only absorbed. These dna markers are not found in any of the non Caucasian Asian races.
My experience has been seeing neanderthals portrayed as dark-skinned. Until recently, that is.