🧬 Neanderthals in Real Life | Hide Processing What you’re seeing: A reconstruction of a Neanderthal scraping an animal hide with a stone tool. This is a plausible behavior based on the broader archaeological evidence for Neanderthal skin processing and stone-tool use. Did Neanderthals really do this? We do not have a preserved Neanderthal outfit, but researchers argue that Neanderthals used stone hide-scrapers to prepare skins, likely for body coverings and other leather uses. Where have their remains been found? Neanderthal fossils and tools have been found across a huge range, from western Europe to western and central Asia, including as far east as Siberia. Why did this matter? Prepared animal skins would have been far more useful than untreated hides in cold conditions, and Neanderthals lived across environments that included cold steppe and temperate woodland settings. Notes: The exact hide, posture, and scraping method shown here are reconstructed. 🎥 All visuals are orig...