Absolutely, Neanderthal were committed to social life. Chauvet, which is the most amazing caves of the Stone-Age, depicted a future generation, that is absolutely adorable.

They were meticulous about passing social knowledge from one generation to the next. The cave of Altamira, for example, is exclusively dedicated to understanding galactic time, i.e., the earth's axial procession (Great Age). That's what the bison in the cave are expressions of; visual puns of the galactic core's drift along the Western and Eastern horizons over the course of a Great Age.

Follow the link given below, which is a brief illustrated explanation, because, and to use a cliché, an illustration is worth a thousand words:

https://linguistic-determinism-art-language.blogspot.com/