Genevieve Dewar
@ProfDewar
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Bioarchaeologist, co director of AMEMSA, Associate Professor at University of Toronto, human adaptive flexibility, Lesotho, South Africa, MSA, https://t.co/x0U0ucrzwX
Joined September 2009
Super successful excavation season digging Pleistocene deposits at Spitzkloof B in the southern Namib Desert (South Africa). Preservation improved with depth and we had the most amazing team! @UMichResearch @UTSCAnthroDept @FLINArchaeology @MySPU
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People who have heard of #Lesotho are well informed & those who have visited among the world’s most fortunate. The mountain kingdom is naturally spectacular & culturally rich. That the immoral goons running our government know nothing of it yet demean it anyway is on brand.
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✨👇✨👇Check out our new #OA article in #Azania taking a critical stance on evidence for vast exchange networks connecting E & S Africa in the Late Pleistocene. Delighted 2b part of @abigailmoffett & Anne Haour’s special issue on beads in ancient Africa!
tandfonline.com
Ostriches are peculiar birds and their strangeness has been recognised by southern African hunter-gatherers through multiple symbolic associations. Such qualities are likely to have been enhanced w...
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Congrats Mike! Super excited to be a part of this team! Looking forward to analyzing the micro world of archaeology…
Super pleased to announce that we were successful with our @arc_gov_au LIEF application to fund a massive upgrade of our Flinders Microarchaeology Laboratory, to form what will be AusMAP: the Australian Microarchaeology and Palaeosciences Facility. @Flinders @FLINArchaeology
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Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now that the paperwork is all sorted, I am excited to announce that I will be joining the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta as an Assistant Professor in early 2025! @UAlberta @UofA_Anthro
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Come and work with us at the Flinders Microarchaeology Laboratory and get to stare wistfully at interesting thin sections of archaeological dirt... #geoarchaeology #micromorphology
@Flinders @FLINArchaeology @Disperscapes
Working as part of an Aus and intl team, Flinders archaeologists @MikeGeoarch and Mirani Litster have helped to reassess the route that early humans took to reach Australia, using stone artefacts and animal bones found in a cave on Timor Island. Read more: https://t.co/ZiG1e96IoL
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4th season at Ha Soloja in highland #lesotho well underway! This time a @UMich fieldschool w students & mentors from Lesotho, SA, USA, Canada & China. Pushing into some >100 ka MSA, the highest in southern Africa⛰️🇱🇸🇱🇸🇱🇸#UMMAA @UMichResearch @UTSCAnthroDept @FLINArchaeology
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The Stable Light Isotope Lab @UCT_news and BIOGRIP will be hosting and a week-long course on the Introduction to Theory and Practice of Stable Light Isotope Mass Spectrometry on 3 - 7 June 2024. Registration link > https://t.co/jiWQtImwdE For more info> vincent.hare@uct.ac.za
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THEORY AND PRACTICE OF STABLE LIGHT ISOTOPE MASS SPECTROMETRY
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Much of what we think we know about human evolution has largely been attributed to natural selection. But @UTM paleoanthropologist Lauren Schroeder says there’s reason to reconsider this Darwinian paradigm. #UofT
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Much of what we think we know about human evolution has largely been attributed to natural selection – namely that species evolve by adapting to their environments. But Lauren Schroeder, a paleoant...
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Thank you Nthabeleng Rantso for the translation!
Excited to see this paper on the late Pleistocene / early Holocene fauna from the Robberg technocomplex at Ha Makotoko and Ntloana Tsoana is out with Charles Arthur, Peter Mitchell and Julia Zastrow in QSA, and now the abstract in Sesotho
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Excited to see this paper on the late Pleistocene / early Holocene fauna from the Robberg technocomplex at Ha Makotoko and Ntloana Tsoana is out with Charles Arthur, Peter Mitchell and Julia Zastrow in QSA, and now the abstract in Sesotho
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Excited to see this paper on the late Pleistocene / early Holocene fauna from the Robberg technocomplex at Ha Makotoko and Ntloana Tsoana is out with Charles Arthur, Peter Mitchell and Julia Zastrow in QSA
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The 22nd ICAZ Fish Remains Working Group meeting will be held in Toronto, Canada, from 12 to 17 August, 2024. Abstract submission and registration systems are now open. Additional information can be found on the conference website ( https://t.co/G2ldqvvxWK).
@ICAZ_News
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Join Dr. Lisa Janz on Friday in AP246 to talk about #archaeology in Mongolia, megafauna, hunters and herders! Find out more: https://t.co/aJpfZEt04U
#utsc #events
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So incredibly relieved and proud to announce that our BIG (in all senses) Gigantopithecus blacki paper has finally landed!! Massive shout out to all GIGANTONAUTS -thank you to everyone of you - please feel free to download its available for everyone https://t.co/Fx1J2H1nHZ
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Geoarchaeologist Associate Professor @MikeGeoarch explains why scientists should seek answers hidden in the dirt using proven #archaeological techniques to support new discoveries following recent controversies about #homonaledi at a cave site in Africa 🔗 https://t.co/UpspE2BdGd
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