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They were a warrior race that fed on beasts the likes of which we have never seen.

That makes for good movie trailer voiceover, but Neanderthals were "our" contemporaries.

Thats a philosophical question and I agree with you on that, but I was referring to stretchwithme point that they would die quickly.

I am not too interested in bringing them back either, but dinosaurs on the other hand...

What exactly is noble about them? They were probably savage and barbaric; the complete opposite of noble.

The 'Noble Savage' myth is the last vestige of racism still taken seriously by educated Westerners. It seems harmless enough, because the stereotype is positive, but it's still an assumption about moral character based on race.

The problem with the Noble Savage myth is that it is a ridiculous romanticization, much akin to the myth of the "simple, merry country folk." The idea in itself doesn't have anything to do with the race of the savages in question.