Hey Brent - have you contacted Maja Seselj, at Bryn Mawr?  Her disstertation work focused on neanderthal growth as it compares to AMH growth, so she will probably be a good resource for this. She's on sabbatical right now, but here's her web page: https://www.brynmawr.edu/people/maja-seselj

Hi! On book by Professor Steven E. Churchill (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=y9XRMUUAAAAJ&hl=en), "Thin on the Ground: Neandertal Biology, Archeology, and Ecology (2014)" you can find a lot of information and where to access data sets (usually as supplementary information on published papers)

Hi there!

You can send an email to specialists from Belgium, some of them did a pretty good work on neanderthals (found in Belgium and abroad). For example, Patrick Semal at the Royal Institute of Natural Sciences ([email protected]) or Michel Toussaint at University of Liège and Public Service of Wallonia ([email protected]).

I'm no expert in hominids but I think they published useful stuff in the journal of the Royal Belgian Society of Anthropology and Prehistory. I guess you would save time by asking them directly what you need. 

In case they wouldn't have time to answer you, you can send a request to our Belgian OsteoArchaeology and Physical Anthropology Society (www.BOAPAS.be) and we'll pass the message to all our members... but Patrick and Michel are the major experts for that matter so I'm sure they have interesting stuff for you.

Good luck

You could look at the database Nespos in Germany it is quiet complrt

Sorry, I am only knowledgeable about more recent populations.

In addition to what I included in response to your inquiry about Neandertal body mass, the following references by Trent Holliday will be useful:

Trinkaus E, Holliday TW, Auerbach BM. 2014. Neandertal clavicle length. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 111:4438-4442.

2012 Holliday TW. Body size, body shape, and the circumscription of the genus Homo. Current Anthropology 53:S330-S345.

2003 Holliday TW, Churchill SE. Gough’s Cave 1 (Somerset, England): An assessment of body size and shape. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum London (Geology) 58:37-44.

2002 Holliday TW. Body size and postcranial robusticity of European Upper Paleolithic hominins. Journal of Human Evolution 43:513-528.

2001 Holliday TW, Ruff CB. Relative variation in human proximal and distal limb segment lengths. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 116:26-33.

1997 Holliday TW. Postcranial evidence of cold adaptation in European Neandertals. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 104:245-258.

1997 Holliday TW. Body proportions in Late Pleistocene Europe and modern human origins. Journal of Human Evolution 32:423-448.

1997 Ruff CB, Trinkaus E, Holliday TW. Body mass and encephalization in Pleistocene Homo. Nature 387:173-176.

2008 Holliday TW. Body proportions of Bichon 1. In F-X Chauvière (ed.), La grotte du Bichon: Un site préhistorique des montagnes neuchâteloises. Neuchâtel, Office et Musée Cantonal d’Archéologie (Archéologie Neuchâteloise, 42).

2006 Holliday TW. Body proportions. In E Trinkaus and J Svoboda (eds.) Early Modern Human Evolution in Central Europe: The People of Dolní Věstonice and Pavlov, pp. 224-232. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2002 Ruff CB, Trinkaus E, Holliday TW. Body proportions and size. In J Zilhão and E Trinkaus (eds.) Portrait of the Artist as a Child. The Gravettian Human Skeleton from the Abrigo do Lagar Velho and its Archeological Context, pp. 365-391. Trabalhos de Arqueologia, Volume 22, Instituto Português de Arqueologia, Lisbon.

2000 Holliday TW. Body proportions of the Paviland 1 skeleton. In SHR Aldhouse-Green (ed.) Paviland Cave and the ‘Red Lady’: A Definitive Report, pp. 199-204. Bristol: Western Academic Specialist Press.

Hi Brent - I'd recommend looking into Todd Yokley's work. He's done some stuff on Neanderthal energetics.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_did_early_humans_eat