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I assume most “cavemen” didn't actually live in caves. Where, then?

I have an image in my mind of Neanderthals living communally in a cave. But I'm sure that's not really the case.

What was their typical domestic situation?
gpt
I don't think anyone knows for certain.  Virtually all of their sites predate the last ice age and were in europe, so most were probably hopelessly destroyed or buried by glaciers.  The cavemen thing arose because most of the earliest neanderthal remains we found were in caves.  That probably has more to do with the stability of the environment there, though.  There are a lot of species whose remains we know mainly from their presence in caves, probably for that reason.  There was a neanderthal site found that wasn't a cave, and had buildings built from mammoth bones.  So, yeah, the flintstones wasn't totally bullshitting us.