[varmintman]

Other than that.... they did have fire (which they had to be terribly careful of with the 8” fur coats), and they did have stone tools. Other hominids appear to have had stone tools as well.

[ZX12R]

Other than that.... they did have fire (which they had to be terribly careful of with the 8” fur coats), and they did have stone tools. Other hominids appear to have had stone tools as well.

Again, if those pictures are an accurate presentation of what they looked like, there is no way that thing used fire or tools. The most likely explanation, if they did, is that the artist's conception is way off.