Research Interests & Work in Progress

• Origins and development of Modern Human Behaviour
• Adaptations to Marginal Environments in the Middle Stone Age
• Bioarchaeology
• Subsistence strategies
• Settlement patterns

Teaching Interest & Responsibilities

• Introduction to Anthropology: Becoming Human
• Bioarchaeology
• Human Origins: New Discoveries
• Human and Primate Comparative Osteology
• Advanced Topics In Human Osteology

Affiliations

• ASAPA (Association of South African Professional Archeologists)
• SAfA (Society of Africanist Archeologists) Executive member
• AAPA (American Association of Physical Anthropologists)
• CAPA (Canadian Association of Physical Anthropologists)

Awards & Grants

2012 McDonald Institute D.M. McDonald Grants and Award fund, "Adaptations to Marginal environments in theMiddle Stone Age" £5,000

2011 SSHRC Standard Research Grant "Crossroads in the desert: Pleistocene forager adaptations to marginal enviro

2009 SSHRS Standard Research Grant, ‘Adaptations to Marginal Environments in the Middle Stone Age’ $37, 390. Principal Investigator.

2009 SIGS Department of Social Sciences, University of Toronto, Scarborough $1,700.

2009 Collaborator, University of Cambridge Centre for African Studies Jan Smuts Memorial Fund Study Grant, ‘Middle Stone Age of the Lesotho Highlands’ £1,950 Dr. Brian Stewart, Principal Investigator.

Publications

• Dewar, G. and Orton, J.  (In Press).  Subsistence, settlement, and material   culture on the central Namaqualand coastline In: A. Jerardino,  D. Braun,  and A. Malan (Eds.) Archaeology of the West Coast, South Africa.   Johannesburg:  Witwatersrand University Press.
  
  Dewar G. and Stewart, B.A. (In Press) Crossroads in the desert: MIS 6 to 2. In: Stewart, B. and Jones. S. (Eds.) Africa during stages 6-2: population dynamics and palaeoenvironments Cambridge Monograph of the Proceedings.
  
  Stewart, B.A., Dewar G.I., Schwenninger, J-L., Inglis, R. and Boreham, S.  (In Press). Follow the Senqu: afromontane foragers in late Pleistocene Lesotho. In: Stewart, B. and Jones, S. (Eds.), Africa during stages 6-2: population dynamics and palaeoenvironments Cambridge Monograph of the Proceedings.
  
  Dewar, G., Reimer, PJ., Sealy, J., and Woodborne, S. 2012. Holocene marine reservoir effect correction (ΔR) for the west coast of South Africa. The Holocene. 22 (12): 1438-1446.
  
  Stewart, B.A., Dewar G.I. Morley, M., Inglis, R., Wheeler, M., Jacobs, Z. and  Roberts, R.  2012. Afromontane foragers of the late Pleistocene: site formation, chronology and occupational pulsing at Melikane Rockshelter, Lesotho.  Quaternary International 270: 40-60.
  
  Dewar, G and Stewart, B. 2012.  Preliminary results of excavations at Spitzkloof Rockshelter, Richtersveld, South Africa. Quaternary International 270: 30-39.
  
  Meul, T., Dewar, G., and Schillaci, M.  2011. The Meul Index: a non-destructive method for estimating the cortical index in skeletal samples.    International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 21: 243-246
  
  Dewar, G. and Pfeiffer, S. 2010.  Approaches to estimation of marine protein in human collagen for radiocarbon date calibration. Radiocarbon. 52 (4): 1611-1625.
  
  Dewar, G., Ginter, J., Shook, BAS., Ferris, N,. Henderson, H., 2010.  A Bioarchaeology study of a Western Basin Tradition Cemetery on the Detroit River.  Journal of Archaeological Science 37 (9) 2245-2254
  
  Dewar, G.  2010. Late Holocene burial cluster at Diaz street midden, Saldanha Bay, Western Cape, South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin 65 (191): 26-34