[muawiyah]

You'd really have to be nuts to wander about with an 8" thick fur coat playing with fire. We do have Neanderthal fireplaces AND there are needles.

Since the Neanderthal type lived in Europe over a 300,000+ period of time (as compared to our own 35,000 year occupancy) their stuff is a lot older than ours, subject to the wear and tear of FOUR ICE AGES (with innumerable glacial advances) .

Full DNA analysis has been done for only a handful of Neanderthals as yet, but they got the same stuff ~ they are people ~ not apes at all.

BTW, they could also make pigments (for painting something) and could tan hides.

As is typical of so many uninformed folks in this world, what you end up doing is attacking yet another group of red-heads!

Sure, it's a different red-yellow pigment than the more advanced humans have, but it's still red.

Portrayals of Neanderthal as BLACK or DEEP BROWN are necessarily wrong. Portrayals of other humans as WHITE at the same period of time are also wrong.

[varmintman]

We do have Neanderthal fireplaces AND there are needles.

That isn't the way I read it. Put up or shut up.

"The Middle Paleolithic was the time of the Neanderthal who wore clothing made of animal hides draped around the body and probably bound in place with sinew. Neanderthals did not create any surviving artwork and did not leave behind any evidence of loom or needle."