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Research Interests & Work in Progress

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

Teaching Interests & Responsibilities

• Introduction to Anthropology: Becoming Human
• 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

• 2010 $17, 000 Wenner Gren for Adaptations to Marginal Environments in the Middle Stone Age, collaborator
• 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., 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
• Dewar, G. and Pfeiffer, S. 2010. (In press). Approaches to estimation of marine protein in human collagen for radiocarbon date calibration. Radiocarbon. Accepted in January 2010.
• Meul, T., Dewar, G., and Schillaci, M. 2009. The Meul Index: a non-destructive method for estimating the cortical index in skeletal samples. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology DOI: 10.1002/ oa. 1121
• Jerardino, A., Dewar, G., and Navarro, R. 2009. West coast hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies during the Late-pottery period: Borrow Pit Midden, Baboon point, Elands Bay. Journal of Island and Coastal Archeology 4: 37-60.