Is it possible to clone a neanderthal person with today's technology?

The DNA- if it could be found at all- would be too degraded for cloning.

No. You would need DNA from the specimen. The cells are all dead, and therefore there is no DNA. Now, if you had a specimen frozen in ice, that would be different because some cells would live.

On a side note, they recently discovered that humans and neanderthals did not interbreed, so no, there is zero chance that there could be a humanderthal

They have sequenced the “first draft” of the Neanderthal genome from that dead DNA. But, still, no dice as far as cloning goes.

Even if it we were to assemble a perfect copy of the neanderthal genome, it is my impression that a fair amount of a person’s development is dictated by the environment provided by the womb, most notably the specific hormones to which it is exposed. I can’t imagine that the womb of a modern woman, and the cocktail of hormones her body gives to the fetus, does not differ significantly from that of a neanderthal; and DNA does not give us the information we would need to recreate those conditions (or so I think: we are not able to ‘read’ genes as of yet, only correlate them with expressions, so we would have to somehow find the relevant sequence, then find a near-identical sequence in a living animal, and then mimic the pre-natal behavior of that animal). So what we cloned would be only a genetic, not an actual reproduction of a neanderthal. Perhaps, however, I am over-estimating the leap that would be required.

Don’t believe them! It’s already been done. There are these secret labs in China and Indonesia where they deal in black market gen-tech. They’ve cloned an army of remote-controlled Neanderthals and are waiting for the right time to strike! They stick these little gizmos in their brains, and they become like semi-autonomous robots who have no fear of death.

Look. I shouldn’t even be saying this, especially in such a public website. However, I think they’re onto me. I may have to go underground for a while. I think someone’s hacked my identity here. This is the God’s honest truth! I swear! Take action while you still can. While your brains are still yours!

It’s been done. George W.

As Laureth said, there is a draft assembly of the entire Neanderthal genome. It would be impossible to synthesize and assemble pieces of DNA as long as would be needed to create an entire “live” synthetic Neanderthal genome (although smaller synthetic genomes have been assembled – the one I know of is Craig Venter’s synthetic Mycoplasma genitalium “JCVI-1.0”) but what WOULD be possible is taking a very similar genome (for example, a human genome) and using targeted mutagenesis to create all the point mutations needed to transform the human genome into what would be a Neanderthal if it could be carried to term. Like Jayne said, the hormones etc. would likely make for a Neanderthal that was not entirely accurate, but the genomic techniques to create a Neanderthal embryo definitely exist.