Checkout the new episode of PBS Eons.  It’s about Neanderthals and how they weren’t much different than us.

Throughout the first half of the 20th century, Neandertals were thought to have been…primitive. Unintelligent, hunched-over cavemen, for lack of a better word. But the discoveries made in that Iraqi cave provided some of the earliest clues that Neanderthals actually behaved — and likely thought and felt — a lot like we do.