Why are Neanderthals generally depicted as having dark skin and black hair?

I mean, they lived in Europe. Wouldn't a blonde Neanderthal make more sense? They couldn't have got enough vitamin D if they were dark.Why are Neanderthals generally depicted as having dark skin and black hair?
I agree, Neanderthals were specifically evolved for a colder climate. they would tend to be fair haired and light skinned like modern Irish,Nordic or Scottish people.Why are Neanderthals generally depicted as having dark skin and black hair?
It is a good point. I think it points out a prejudice that most PC anthropologists wouldn't like to admit.
The mosr recent research I've read, is that the Neanderthal DNA, when mixed with Cro-Magnon, likely accounted for the blue-eye gene, and the Blonde/Red -Haired gene commonly found in today's Northern Europeans, before they disappeared entirely, appx. 25,000 years ago...
I guess we shall never know!
Wasn't there some theory that ginger hair may possibly be a gene that Neanderthals had.


But also if they did have dark skin at that time there wouldn't have been enough vitimin D in their diets, so illnesses like rickets would have been rife. Prehaps this contributed to their path to extinction.
Because the French were the first to describe the inferior brutes.
I don't think that they have any proof at all what color skin, hair, or how much hair.