Catherine D. Neish

[laughs] And it's where all the learning you do in the classroom through textbooks and courses really clicks.

Dr. Catherine Neish is a professor of earth sciences at Western University, and Sajonk Bunga is a fourth-year PhD student also at Western University.

[upbeat music] What ever happened to the Neanderthals when they went extinct 40,000 years ago? It might surprise you to find out we don't have a good answer for that question.

But there is a team of international archeologists trying to figure it out, including a geoarcheologist from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.