BBC describes Neanderthals as white

[Östsvensk]

He was a Neanderthal, and stark naked apart from a fur cape. He had good posture and pale skin, perhaps reddened slightly with sunburn. Around one of his thick, muscular biceps he wore bracelet of eagle-talons. She was an early modern human, clad in an animal-skin coat with a wolf-fur trim. She had dark skin, long legs, and her hair was worn in braids.

Here's what we know sex with Neanderthals was like


So apparently the first humans were dark-skinned and the Neanderthals were white like the Irish.

[Aldaris]

That guy looks like a homeless from my neighborhood. Anyhow, an interesting alternative hypothesis.