NASA: Earth used to be purple

Chlorophyll or retinal? More evidence of a "Purple Dawn":
https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/earth-used-to-be-purple-suggests-study

Purple Dawn:
http://saturndeathcult.com/the-sturn-death-cult-part-1/a-timeless-age-in-a-purple-haze/

Lord Byron:
The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold
and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold....

[Royal colors due to their having been the primary colors of the sky in the two ages preceding ours]...

Creatures adapted to that deep purple twilight age, particularly hominids such as the Neanderthal and dinosaurs, all had the same kinds of huge eyes. Remaining/surviving animals of that age include tarsiers, lemurs, bush-babies, owls and the like.

Rob Gargett ("Subversive Archaeologist") notes that even if you try to draw a yuppified/humanized Neanderthal with the eyes and nose as large as the bones indicate, what you end up with is still outlandish

Realistic Neanderthal reconstruction (Vendramini):

Early human needles are common. Nobody has ever found the first Neanderthal needle since a creature with a 6" long ice-age fur coat does not require needles...

Front view with fur removed: