Neanderthal portraits strike me as morally offensive, reflecting an arrogant and ignorant form of control over interpretation. These depictions reduce a complex

Neanderthal portraits strike me as morally offensive, reflecting an arrogant and ignorant form of control over interpretation. These depictions reduce a complex ancient species to biased stereotypes, perpetuating assumptions that prove inaccurate over time. It's a distorted construct falsely asserting superiority by condescendingly looking down on our evolutionary past.