Neanderthals were notable for their stocky build, but it is their cranial characteristics that are the most diagnostic: a protruding mid-facial region, emphasize by the lack of a distinct chin, thick, well-developed brow-ridges over the eyes, which are backward into a weakly developed forehead.
Neanderthals use caves and rock shelters where they existed, but in all probability, constructed shelters in open environments. They probably organized in small groups, and ranged over relatively small and fairly circumscribed territories. Like archaic humans in Africa, the Neanderthals made composite tools, hafting stone points onto shafts of organic material (wood, bones, etc).
Who are Neanderthals?
