They were descended from Africans and they were black. White people didn’t move into Europe until the Holocene.
The out-of-Africa humans went to the ME, China, etc-much closer-didn’t get to Europe for awhile.
There is not much evidence of a huge difference in the color of early humans from anywhere, other than it was related to the climate conditions where they came from/moved to-more sun-more pigmentation, less sun, pale skin. And people didn’t seem to move very far in glacial periods-if that is racist, then there are a lot of REAL science deniers out there...