Genevieve Dewar
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
Dr. Dewar works in southern Africa on issues of human modernity, origins of modern human behaviour, focusing on evidence for Palaeoenvironments, Subsistence and Settlement strategies. She also has an ongoing project here in Ontario using isotopes to better understand the subsistence strategies of an Algonquian group (cemetery) from the Windsor area. She is teaching Introduction to Anthropology and World Prehistory this term and Human Osteology and Human Origins: new discoveries in the winter term. Her current project is called Adaptations to Marginal Environments in the Middle Stone Age.
Research Interest
Bio-archaeology, marginal environments, hunter-gatherers, origins of modern human behaviour
