125,000-Year-Old Factory

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A new study shows evidence of Neanderthal “fat factories” dating back as far as 125,000 years ago.
The study found inhabitants of the settlement strategically selected the lakeside location for the factory and harvested bone marrow by breaking open the bones as well as through a process of crushing and heating.
The fat factory suggests Neanderthals’ grasp of their survivalist diets, and that they were able to understand their environment and plan ahead for hunting and resource-gathering.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/scienc ... d-factory/

Archeologists on the recent excavation found that Neanderthals intentionally selected the lakeside location to process the bones of at least 172 mammals including deer, horses, and aurochs (a now-extinct species of bovine). According to the study, inhabitants at the site not only broke open large mammal bones to extract the marrow, but they also ground the bones into thousands of fragments and heated them in water to extract calorie-rich bone grease. These findings place estimates of advanced resource collection thousands of years earlier than previously thought.

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[Black Orchid]

Even back then they hunted animal species into extinction.

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Then neanderthals went extinct themselves but I doubt that was major reason for their demise.

[Jasin]

Neanderthal were classic 'home boys'. Never moving far from their established caves or areas. They never followed the game, like nomadic Sapiens did. The down side of this was isolationism and if the game never came near, they had to go without.
With Europe warming in their last 20,000 years, their beneficial body fat and cold climate physics, became a burden. With Sapien competitors arriving more and more, they probably refuged in their isolationism even more so until dwindled and becoming the old Europe folklore of Ogres in Caves, etc. This nature also is what dwindled many Sapien cultures and peoples later on too.
I guess Neanderthal and Denisovan were not overly sociable as most Sapiens.

The Neanderthal could have been superior to Sapiens in many ways, like the White Rhodesian were in their Bush War - but ultimately, the more populating people win out in the end, as did the anti-white blacks in Rhodesia did, even if they died in fighting the Rhodesians to something like 1000 to 1. They just kept coming.

I think this is what ultimately happened with the Neanderthal, Denisovan and other older races. They just couldn't breed up to pace to be competitive and sought refuge in isolation from both Sapiens and alas, themselves.