The Misunderstood view of Neanderthal Working from just a few fragments, scientists misinterpreted what they found and drew pictures of cavemen showing what the supposed ancestors of humans looked like. But even though scientists know better, many people today still think that cavemen, whose pictures they saw in school, really existed. And they think the Neanderthal people were an animal-like link in the chain of human evolution. Yes, cavemen existed. They exist today.
Cavemen are just men who live in caves.
It is interesting that the same scientist who search for ancestors of modern man give some of the fossil bones they find a name like Australopithecus . The striking thing about these fossils is that they are so apelike. And yet they call this monkey a hominid along with the Neanderthal which is a true human.