NEANDERTHAL

[adjective] - of a type of primitive people who lived in Europe and Asia in the past, or (figurative) (of people or beliefs) very old-fashioned and strongly against social and political change(figurative) He criticized what he described as the 'neanderthal tendencies' of the right wing of the party.Neanderthal man was a type of primitive people who lived mainly in Europe and Asia 250 000 to 30 000 years ago.