This Neanderthal had an impacted molar, and the surrounding teeth have grooves, scratches, and fractures in the enamel.  This shows that the individual may have been using some kind of a toothpick (perhaps a piece of bone, wood or even stiff grass) to try and relieve the pain.

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Fast-accumulating data seem to indicate that our close cousins, the Neandertals, were much more similar to us than imagined even a decade ago. But did they have anything like modern speech and language? And if so, what are the implications for understanding present-day linguistic diversity? Modern language and speech can be traced back to the last common ancestor we shared with the Neandertals roughly half a million years ago, according to new research.

The Neanderthals demise, according to a recent theory, was caused by their vision being highly evolved especially for night vision and because of this, much of their brain use was devoted to this function and not thought or free-thinking as in Homo Sapiens. A strange theory I think.  Wouldn't this cause Neanderthals to be more intelligent? since more thought was needed to process the extra stimuli. 

Living what we think...worshiping a lie.