About Neil Bockoven

Neil Bockoven is an award-winning PhD geologist, journalist, and author who earned his doctorate in geoscience from The University of Texas at Austin. His current interests center on the interaction between Early Modern Humans and Neanderthals during the Paleolithic Age and the amazing related discoveries being made through archaeology and ancient DNA analysis. Neil has been a featured speaker all over the USA. His Facebook page has 25,000 followers, and by posting to other pages, he reaches 4,500,000 followers weekly. In addition to his two novels, Moctu and the Mammoth People and The People Eaters, he has also published a related children’s science book titled When We Met Neanderthals.