Of course they did! Early man knew how to use fire long before the Neanderthals and it was a skill that was passed on through the evolutionary generations. One of the earliest species of hominids to use fire would have to be Homo Erectus.
We are homo sapiens and we know how to make and use fire.
Caves.
Buck has a flashback from his ancestry of sitting at the fire with a "hairy man" or neanderthal in ancient times. As he sits by the fire he dreams of walking with the man or sitting by the fire.
The cast of Neanderthal - 2001 includes: Mark Byron as Cromagnon Jud Charlton as Neanderthal Kenneth Cranham as Himself - Narrator Cosh Omar as Neanderthal Howard Salinger as Neanderthal Samantha Seager as Neanderthal Miltos Yerolemou as Neanderthal
They buried their dead.
"Scientists believe that Neanderthals coexisted with early humans in Europe."
Because you are a neanderthal.
They lived in caves and rock shelters.
Neanderthal.
I am fairly positive they did not have a government, and I don't know what gave you the idea that they had one.
Neanderthal - album - was created in 2008.
What is a neanderthal