I recently received this neandertal man from Bully, he had lost colours and spear. Here he is with my original one for comparison:
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]..I changed his mammoth tusk into a hunting flying club because there is no evidence they used ivory and gave to him a new spear with a stone flint point. I made his skin colour lighter because there are now genetic evidences they were fair and blond people with sometimes blue eyes..
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]to compare with Homo sapiens (also from Bullyland) who invaded Europe 30000 years ago an who remained until very late (8000 years ago) dark skin and hair peoples (but with often blue eyes).
Poul Anderson had already described Neandertal people as blond peoples in a short novel "The Long Remembering" a long time ago in the sixties or seventies and Bjorn Kurten, the famous finnish paleontolog wrote "Whites" for Neandertalians and "Blacks" for Cro-manians to be short in its very interesting novel: The Dance of the Tiger (about the meeting between the 2 kinds of men)..