I have a real (not a replica) Neanderthal stone tool from southern France dated to about 60K years ago.
They had more than 4-hour Viagra back then???
I had an opportunity to handle Neandertal and Homo Sapiens skulls recently. It made me wonder what the cross section of that incredibly long Neandertal skull is compared to H. sapiens.
If the difference is as large as what it looks like, my take on it is that they died in childbirth. Unless they had an extremely large pelvic opening (which I would also like to check out), giving birth would have been very deadly indeed.