John Stewart

Professor John Stewart

  • Professor in Evolutionary Palaeoecology
  • Christchurch House C135, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
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Biography

I am an evolutionary palaeoecologist with broad research interests encompassing the use of faunas in reconstructing Pleistocene and Holocene ecologies (and increasingly from the Neogene), understanding the nature, timing and location of ice age refugia for species, and building and testing molecular biogeographical hypotheses on how species respond to environmental change (in collaboration with ancient DNA practitioners). I am also interested in the relationship between species and subspecies level evolution and extinction during the Quaternary; and more recently the use of Quaternary data in conservation biology.

Journal Articles

  • Lord, E., Feinauer, I.S., Soares, A.E.R., Lagerholm, V.K., Näsvall, K., Ersmark, E., Olsen, R.A., Prost, S., Kuzmina, E.A., Smirnov, N.G., Stewart, J.R., Knul, M.V., Noiret, P., Germonpré, M., Ehrich, D., Pokrovsky, I., Fedorov, V.B., Goropashnaya, A.V., Dalén, L., Díez-Del-Molino, D., 2025. Genome analyses suggest recent speciation and postglacial isolation in the Norwegian lemming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122 (28).
  • Stewart, J.R., Alsos, I.G., Brown, A.G., Dalén, L., Heintzman, P.D., 2025. The progressive evolution of cold-adapted species. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 40 (7), 687-698.
  • Olalde, I., Altena, E., Bourgeois, Q., Fokkens, H., Amkreutz, L., Deguilloux, M.-F., Fichera, A., Flas, D., Gandini, F., Kegler, J.F., Kootker, L.M., Leijnse, K., Kooijmans, L.L., Lauwerier, R., Miller, R., Molthof, H., Noiret, P., Raemaekers, D.C.M., Rivollat, M., Smits, L., Stewart, J.R., Anscher, T.T., Toussaint, M., Callan, K., Cheronet, O., Frost, T., Iliev, L., Mah, M., Micco, A., Oppenheimer, J., Patterson, I., Qiu, L., Soos, G., Workman, J.N., Edwards, C.J., Lazaridis, I., Mallick, S., Patterson, N., Rohland, N., Richards, M.B., Pinhasi, R., Haak, W., Pala, M., Reich, D., 2025. Long-term hunter-gatherer continuity in the Rhine-Meuse region was disrupted by local formation of expansive Bell Beaker groups. bioRxiv.
  • García-Rodríguez, O., Hardouin, E.A., Pedreschi, D., Richards, M.B., Stafford, R., Searle, J.B., Stewart, J.R., 2024. Contrasting Patterns of Genetic Diversity in European Mammals in the Context of Glacial Refugia. Diversity, 16 (10).
  • Baca, M., Popović, D., Agadzhanyan, A.K., Baca, K., Conard, N.J., Fewlass, H., Filek, T., Golubiński, M., Horáček, I., Knul, M.V., Krajcarz, M., Krokhaleva, M., Lebreton, L., Lemanik, A., Maul, L.C., Nagel, D., Noiret, P., Primault, J., Rekovets, L., Rhodes, S.E., Royer, A., Serdyuk, N.V., Soressi, M., Stewart, J.R., Strukova, T., Talamo, S., Wilczyński, J., Nadachowski, A., 2023. Ancient DNA of narrow-headed vole reveal common features of the Late Pleistocene population dynamics in cold-adapted small mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 290 (1993).
  • Baca, M., Popović, D., Lemanik, A., Bañuls-Cardona, S., Conard, N.J., Cuenca-Bescós, G., Desclaux, E., Fewlass, H., Garcia, J.T., Hadravova, T., Heckel, G., Horáček, I., Knul, M.V., Lebreton, L., López-García, J.M., Luzi, E., Marković, Z., Mauch Lenardić, J., Murelaga, X., Noiret, P., Petculescu, A., Popov, V., Rhodes, S.E., Ridush, B., Royer, A., Stewart, J.R., Stojak, J., Talamo, S., Wang, X., Wójcik, J.M., Nadachowski, A., 2023. Ancient DNA reveals interstadials as a driver of common vole population dynamics during the last glacial period. Journal of Biogeography, 50 (1), 183-196.
  • Rabiniak, E., Rekovets, L., Stewart, J.R., Dalén, L., Barton, N., Strzała, T., Barkaszi, Z., Kovalchuk, O., 2023. Late Pleistocene and Holocene pikas (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) from Europe and the validity of Ochotona spelaea: New insights based on mtDNA analysis. Palaeontologia Electronica, 26 (1).
  • Lord, E., Marangoni, A., Baca, M., Popović, D., Goropashnaya, A.V., Stewart, J.R., Knul, M.V., Noiret, P., Germonpré, M., Jimenez, E.L., Abramson, N.I., Vartanyan, S., Prost, S., Smirnov, N.G., Kuzmina, E.A., Olsen, R.A., Fedorov, V.B., Dalén, L., 2022. Population dynamics and demographic history of Eurasian collared lemmings. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 22 (1).
  • Cooper, J.H., Stewart, J.R., Serjeantson, D., 2022. The birds of ancient Britain: first recommendations for Category F of the British List. Ibis, 164 (3), 911-923.
  • García-Rodríguez, O., Hardouin, E.A., Hambleton, E., Monteith, J., Randall, C., Richards, M.B., Edwards, C.J., Stewart, J.R., 2021. Ancient mitochondrial DNA connects house mice in the British Isles to trade across Europe over three millennia. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 21 (1).
  • López-García, J.M., Blain, H.A., Sánchez-Bandera, C., Cohen, J., Lebreton, L., Montuire, S., Stewart, J.R., Desclaux, E., 2021. Multi-method approach using small vertebrate assemblages to reconstruct the Marine Isotope Stage 6 climate and environment of the Lazaret cave sequence (Maritime Alps, Nice, France). Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 577.
  • Andreou, D., Antognazza, C.M., Williams, C.F., Bradley, H., Reading, A.J., Hardouin, E.A., Stewart, J.R., Sheath, D., Galligar, A., Johnson, E., Britton, J.R., 2020. Vicariance in a generalist fish parasite driven by climate and salinity tolerance of hosts. Parasitology, 147 (14), 1658-1664.
  • Ochando, J., Carrión, J.S., Rodríguez-Vidal, J., Jiménez-Arenas, J.M., Fernández, S., Amorós, G., Munuera, M., Scott, L., Stewart, J.R., Knul, M.V., Toro-Moyano, I., Ponce de León, M., Zollikofer, C., 2020. Palynology and chronology of hyaena coprolites from the Piñar karstic Caves Las Ventanas and Carihuela, southern Spain. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 552.
  • Frantz, L.A.F., Haile, J., Lin, A.T., Scheu, A., Geörg, C., Benecke, N., Alexander, M., Linderholm, A., Mullin, V.E., Daly, K.G., Battista, V.M., Price, M., Gron, K.J., Alexandri, P., Arbogast, R.M., Arbuckle, B., Bǎlǎşescu, A., Barnettl, R., Bartosiewicz, L., Baryshnikov, G., Bonsall, C., Borić, D., Boroneanţ, A., Bulatović, J., Çakirlar, C., Carretero, J.M., Chapman, J., Church, M., Crooijmans, R., De Cupere, B., Detry, C., Dimitrijevic, V., Dumitraşcu, V., Du Plessis, L., Edwards, C.J., Erek, C.M., Erim-Özdoǧan, A., Ervynck, A., Fulgione, D., Gligor, M., Götherström, A., Gourichon, L., Groenen, M.A.M., Helmer, D., Hongo, H., Horwitz, L.K., Irving-Pease, E.K., Lebrasseur, O., Lesur, J., Malone, C., Manaseryan, N., Marciniak, A., Martlew, H., Mashkour, M., Matthews, R., Matuzeviciute, G.M., Maziar, S., Meijaard, E., McGovern, T., Megens, H.J., Miller, R., Mohaseb, A.F., Orschiedt, J., Orton, D., Papathanasiou, A., Pearson, M.P., Pinhasi, R., Radmanović, D., Ricaut, F.X., Richards, M., Sabin, R., Sarti, L., Schier, W., Sheikhi, S., Stephan, E., Stewart, J.R., Stoddart, S., Tagliacozzo, A., Tasić, N., Trantalidou, K., Tresset, A., Valdiosera, C., Van Den Hurk, Y., Van Poucke, S., Vigne, J.D., Yanevich, A., Zeeb-Lanz, A., Triantafyllidis, A., Gilbert, M.T.P., Schibler, J., Rowley-Conwy, P., Zeder, M., Peters, J., Cucchi, T., Bradley, D.G., Dobney, K., Burger, J., Evin, A., Girdland-Flink, L., Larson, G., 2020. Erratum: Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2019) 116 (17231-17238) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1901169116). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117 (25), 14610-14611.
  • Baca, M., Popović, D., Baca, K., Lemanik, A., Doan, K., Horáček, I., López-García, J.M., Bañuls-Cardona, S., Pazonyi, P., Desclaux, E., Crégut-Bonnoure, E., Berto, C., Lenardić, J.M., Miękina, B., Murelaga, X., Cuenca-Bescós, G., Krajcarz, M., Marković, Z., Petculescu, A., Wilczyński, J., Knul, M.V., Stewart, J.R., Nadachowski, A., 2020. Diverse responses of common vole (Microtus arvalis) populations to Late Glacial and Early Holocene climate changes – Evidence from ancient DNA. Quaternary Science Reviews, 233.
  • Frantz, L.A.F., Haile, J., Lin, A.T., Scheu, A., Geoerg, C., Benecke, N., Alexander, M., Linderholm, A., Mullin, V.E., Daly, K.G., Battista, V.M., Price, M., Gron, K.J., Alexandri, P., Arbogast, R.-M., Arbuckle, B., Balasescu, A., Barnett, R., Bartosiewicz, L., Baryshnikov, G., Bonsall, C., Boric, D., Boroneant, A., Bulatovic, J., Cakirlar, C., Carreterow, J.-M., Chapman, J., Church, M., Crooijmans, R., De Cupere, B., Detry, C., Dimitrijevic, V., Dumitrascu, V., du Plessis, L., Edwards, C.J., Erek, C.M., Erim-Ozdogan, A., Ervynck, A., Fulgione, D., Gligor, M., Gotherstrom, A., Gourichon, L., Groenen, M.A.M., Helmer, D., Hongo, H., Horwitz, L.K., Irving-Pease, E.K., Lebrasseur, O., Lesur, J., Malone, C., Manaseryan, N., Marciniak, A., Martlew, H., Mashkour, M., Matthews, R., Matuzeviciute, G.M., Maziar, S., Meijaard, E., McGovern, T., Megens, H.-J., Miller, R., Mohaseb, A.F., Orschiedt, J., Orton, D., Papathanasiou, A., Pearson, M.P., Pinhasi, R., Radmanovic, D., Ricaut, F.-X., Richards, M., Sabin, R., Sarti, L., Schier, W., Sheikhi, S., Stephan, E., Stewart, J.R., Stoddart, S., Tagliacozzo, A., Tasic, N., Trantalidou, K., Tresset, A., Valdiosera, C., van den Hurk, Y., Van Poucke, S., Vigne, J.-D., Yanevich, A., Zeeb-Lanz, A., Triantafyllidis, A., Gilbert, M.T.P., Schibler, J., Rowley-Conwy, P., Zeder, M., Peters, J., Cucchi, T., Bradley, D.G., Dobney, K., Burger, J., Evin, A., Girdland-Flink, L., Larson, G., 2020. "Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe (vol 116, pg17231, 2019). PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 117 (25), 14610-14611.
  • Allen, P.J., Wiener, J.M., Gatzidis, C., Stringer, C.B., Stewart, J.R., 2019. Investigating the Effect of the Environment on Prey Detection Ability in Humans. Scientific Reports, 9 (1).
  • Thomas, J.E., Carvalho, G.R., Haile, J., Rawlence, N.J., Martin, M.D., Ho, S.Y.W., Sigfússon, A., Jósefsson, V.A., Frederiksen, M., Linnebjerg, J.F., Castruita, J.A.S., Niemann, J., Sinding, M.H.S., Sandoval-Velasco, M., Soares, A.E.R., Lacy, R., Barilaro, C., Best, J., Brandis, D., Cavallo, C., Elorza, M., Garrett, K.L., Groot, M., Johansson, F., Lifjeld, J.T., Nilson, G., Serjeanston, D., Sweet, P., Fuller, E., Hufthammer, A.K., Meldgaard, M., Fjeldsa, J., Shapiro, B., Hofreiter, M., Stewart, J.R., Gilbert, M.T.P., Knapp, M., 2019. Demographic reconstruction from ancient DNA supports rapid extinction of the great auk. Elife, 8.
  • Frantz, L.A.F., Haile, J., Lin, A.T., Scheu, A., Geörg, C., Benecke, N., Alexander, M., Linderholm, A., Mullin, V.E., Daly, K.G., Battista, V.M., Price, M., Gron, K.J., Alexandri, P., Arbogast, R.M., Arbuckle, B., Bǎlǎşescu, A., Barnett, R., Bartosiewicz, L., Baryshnikov, G., Bonsall, C., Borić, D., Boroneanţ, A., Bulatović, J., Çakirlar, C., Carretero, J.M., Chapman, J., Church, M., Crooijmans, R., De Cupere, B., Detry, C., Dimitrijevic, V., Dumitraşcu, V., Du Plessis, L., Edwards, C.J., Erek, C.M., Erim-Özdoǧan, A., Ervynck, A., Fulgione, D., Gligor, M., Götherström, A., Gourichon, L., Groenen, M.A.M., Helmer, D., Hongo, H., Horwitz, L.K., Irving-Pease, E.K., Lebrasseur, O., Lesur, J., Malone, C., Manaseryan, N., Marciniak, A., Martlew, H., Mashkour, M., Matthews, R., Matuzeviciute, G.M., Maziar, S., Meijaard, E., McGovern, T., Megens, H.J., Miller, R., Mohaseb, A.F., Orschiedt, J., Orton, D., Papathanasiou, A., Pearson, M.P., Pinhasi, R., Radmanović, D., Ricaut, F.X., Richards, M., Sabin, R., Sarti, L., Schier, W., Sheikhi, S., Stephan, E., Stewart, J.R., Stoddart, S., Tagliacozzo, A., Tasić, N., Trantalidou, K., Tresset, A., Valdiosera, C., Van Den Hurk, Y., Van Poucke, S., Vigne, J.D., Yanevich, A., Zeeb-Lanz, A., Triantafyllidis, A., Gilbert, M.T.P., Schibler, J., Rowley-Conwy, P., Zeder, M., Peters, J., Cucchi, T., Bradley, D.G., Dobney, K., Burger, J., Evin, A., Girdland-Flink, L., Larson, G., 2019. Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116 (35), 17231-17238.
  • Stewart, J.R., García-Rodríguez, O., Knul, M.V., Sewell, L., Montgomery, H., Thomas, M.G., Diekmann, Y., 2019. Palaeoecological and genetic evidence for Neanderthal power locomotion as an adaptation to a woodland environment. Quaternary Science Reviews, 217, 310-315.
  • Allen, P.J., Wiener, J.M., Gatzidis, C., Stringer, C.B., Stewart, J.R., 2019. Investigating the Effect of the Environment on Prey Detection Ability in Humans. Scientific Reports, 9 (1).
  • Stewart, J., Lalueza-Fox, C., Carrión, J., 2019. Neanderthals: Ecology and evolution. Quaternary Science Reviews, 217.
  • Ersmark, E., Baryshnikov, G., Higham, T., Argant, A., Castaños, P., Döppes, D., Gasparik, M., Germonpré, M., Lidén, K., Lipecki, G., Marciszak, A., Miller, R., Moreno-García, M., Pacher, M., Robu, M., Rodriguez-Varela, R., Rojo Guerra, M., Sabol, M., Spassov, N., Storå, J., Valdiosera, C., Villaluenga, A., Stewart, J.R., Dalén, L., 2019. Genetic turnovers and northern survival during the last glacial maximum in European brown bears. Ecology and Evolution, 9 (10), 5891-5905.
  • Pitt, J., Gillingham, P.K., Maltby, M., Stafford, R., Stewart, J.R., 2019. Changing cultures, changing environments: A novel means of investigating the effects of introducing non-native species into past ecosystems. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, 23, 1066-1075.
  • Pedreschi, D., García-Rodríguez, O., Yannic, G., Cantarello, E., Diaz, A., Golicher, D., Korstjens, A.H., Heckel, G., Searle, J.B., Gillingham, P., Hardouin, E.A., Stewart, J.R., 2019. Challenging the European southern refugium hypothesis: Species-specific structures versus general patterns of genetic diversity and differentiation among small mammals. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28 (2), 262-274.
  • Garcia-Rodriguez, O., Andreou, D., Herman, J.S., Mitsainas, G.P., Searle, J.B., Bonhomme, F., Hadjisterkotis, E., Schutkowski, H., Stafford, R., Stewart, J.R., Hardouin, E.A., 2018. Cyprus as an ancient hub for house mice and humans. JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY, 45 (12), 2619-2630.
  • Stewart, J.R., Fenberg, P.B., 2018. A climatic context for the out-of-Africa migration. GEOLOGY, 46 (5), E442.
  • Dalén, L., Lagerholm, V.K., Nylander, J.A.A., Barton, N., Bochenski, Z.M., Tomek, T., Rudling, D., Ericson, P.G.P., Irestedt, M., Stewart, J.R., 2017. Identifying bird remains using ancient DNA barcoding. Genes, 8 (6).
  • Thomas, J.E., Carvalho, G.R., Haile, J., Martin, M.D., Samaniego Castruita, J.A., Niemann, J., Sinding, M.H.S., Sandoval-Velasco, M., Rawlence, N.J., Fuller, E., Fjeldså, J., Hofreiter, M., Stewart, J.R., Gilbert, M.T.P., Knapp, M., 2017. An ‛aukward’ tale: A genetic approach to discover the whereabouts of the last Great Auks. Genes, 8 (6).
  • Slon, V., Hopfe, C., Weiß, C.L., Mafessoni, F., De La Rasilla, M., Lalueza-Fox, C., Rosas, A., Soressi, M., Knul, M.V., Miller, R., Stewart, J.R., Derevianko, A.P., Jacobs, Z., Li, B., Roberts, R.G., Shunkov, M.V., De Lumley, H., Perrenoud, C., Gušić, I., Kućan, Ž., Rudan, P., Aximu-Petri, A., Essel, E., Nagel, S., Nickel, B., Schmidt, A., Prüfer, K., Kelso, J., Burbano, H.A., Pääbo, S., Meyer, M., 2017. Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from Pleistocene sediments. Science, 356 (6338), 605-608.
  • Lagerholm, V.K., Sandoval-Castellanos, E., Vaniscotte, A., Potapova, O.R., Tomek, T., Bochenski, Z.M., Shepherd, P., Barton, N., Van Dyck, M.C., Miller, R., Höglund, J., Yoccoz, N.G., Dalén, L., Stewart, J.R., 2017. Range shifts or extinction? Ancient DNA and distribution modelling reveal past and future responses to climate warming in cold-adapted birds. Global Change Biology, 23 (4), 1425-1435.
  • Smith, S., Sandoval-Castellanos, E., Lagerholm, V.K., Napierala, H., Sablin, M., Von Seth, J., Fladerer, F.A., Germonpre, M., Wojtal, P., Miller, R., Stewart, J.R., Dalen, L., 2017. Nonreceding hare lines: genetic continuity since the Late Pleistocene in European mountain hares (Lepus timidus). BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, 120 (4), 891-908.
  • Welker, F., Hajdinjak, M., Talamo, S., Jaouen, K., Dannemann, M., David, F., Julien, M., Meyer, M., Kelso, J., Barnes, I., Brace, S., Kamminga, P., Fischer, R., Kessler, B.M., Stewart, J.R., Paabo, S., Collins, M.J., Hublin, J.-J., 2016. Palaeoproteomic evidence identifies archaic hominins associated with the Chatelperronian at the Grotte du Renne. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 113 (40), 11162-11167.
  • Pitt, J., Gillingham, P.K., Maltby, M., Stewart, J.R., 2016. New perspectives on the ecology of early domestic fowl: An interdisciplinary approach. Journal of Archaeological Science, 74, 1-10.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2016. Synchronous genetic turnovers across Western Eurasia in Late Pleistocene collared lemmings. Global Change Biology, 22 (5).
  • Palkopoulou, E., Baca, M., Abramson, N.I., Sablin, M., Socha, P., Nadachowski, A., Prost, S., Germonpré, M., Kosintsev, P., Smirnov, N.G., Vartanyan, S., Ponomarev, D., Nyström, J., Nikolskiy, P., Jass, C.N., Litvinov, Y.N., Kalthoff, D.C., Grigoriev, S., Fadeeva, T., Douka, A., Higham, T.F.G., Ersmark, E., Pitulko, V., Pavlova, E., Stewart, J.R., Weogonekgleński, P., Stankovic, A., Dalén, L., 2016. Synchronous genetic turnovers across Western Eurasia in Late Pleistocene collared lemmings. Global Change Biology, 22 (5), 1710-1721.
  • Brace, S., Ruddy, M., Miller, R., Schreve, D.C., Stewart, J.R., Barnes, I., 2016. The colonization history of British water vole (Arvicola amphibius (Linnaeus, 1758)): Origins and development of the Celtic fringe. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 283 (1829).
  • Fenberg, P.B., Self, A., Stewart, J.R., Wilson, R.J., Brooks, S.J., 2016. Exploring the universal ecological responses to climate change in a univoltine butterfly. Journal of Animal Ecology.
  • Lokier, S.W., Bateman, M.D., Larkin, N.R., Rye, P., Stewart, J.R., 2015. Late Quaternary sea-level changes of the Persian Gulf. Quaternary Research United States, 84 (1), 69-81.
  • Stewart, J.R., Jacobi, R.M., 2015. The long term response of birds to climate change: New results from a cold stage avifauna in northern England. Plos One, 10 (5).
  • Stewart, J.R., Jacobi, R.M., 2015. The Long Term Response of Birds to Climate Change: New Results from a Cold Stage Avifauna in Northern England. PLOS ONE, 10 (5).
  • Suggitt, A.J., Jones, R.T., Caseldine, C.J., Huntley, B., Stewart, J.R., Brooks, S.J., Brown, E., Fletcher, D., Gillingham, P.K., Larwood, J., Macgregor, N.A., Silva, B., Thomas, Z., Wilson, R.J., Maclean, I.M.D., 2015. A reply to ‘A meta-database of Holocene sediment cores for England: missing data’ (Tooley 2015). Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.
  • Suggitt, A.J., Jones, R.T., Caseldine, C.J., Huntley, B., Stewart, J.R., Brooks, S.J., Brown, E., Fletcher, D., Gillingham, P.K., Larwood, J., Macgregor, N.A., Silva, B., Thomas, Z., Wilson, R.J., Maclean, I.D., 2015. A meta-database of Holocene sediment cores for England. Veget Hist Archaeobot.
  • Lagerholm, V.K., Sandoval-Castellanos, E., Ehrich, D., Abramson, N.I., Nadachowski, A., Kalthoff, D.C., Germonpré, M., Angerbjörn, A., Stewart, J.R., Dalén, L., 2014. On the origin of the Norwegian lemming. Molecular Ecology.
  • Vincke, D., Miller, R., Stassart, E., Otte, M., Dardenne, P., Collins, M., Wilkinson, K., Stewart, J., Baeten, V., Fernández Pierna, J.A., 2014. Analysis of collagen preservation in bones recovered in archaeological contexts using NIR hyperspectral Imaging. Talanta, 125, 181-188.
  • Zwyns, N., Gladyshev, S.A., Gunchinsuren, B., Bolorbat, T., Flas, D., Dogandžić, T., Tabarev, A.V., Gillam, J.C., Khatsenovich, A.M., McPherron, S., Odsuren, D., Paine, C.H., Purevjal, K.-E., Stewart, J.R., 2014. The open-air site of Tolbor 16 (Northern Mongolia): Preliminary results and perspectives. Quaternary International.
  • Meiri, M., Lister, A.M., Higham, T.F., Stewart, J.R., Straus, L.G., Obermaier, H., Gonzalez Morales, M.R., Marin-Arroyo, A.B., Barnes, I., 2013. Late-glacial recolonization and phylogeography of European red deer (Cervus elaphus L.). Molecular Ecology, 22 (18), 4711-4722.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2013. Human Biogeography. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY, 25 (5), 711-712.
  • Fa, J.E., Vargas, J.M., Stewart, J.R., Lloveras, L., 2013. Rabbits and hominin survival in Iberia. Journal of Human Evolution, 64 (4), 233-241.
  • Fa, J.E., Stewart, J.R., Lloveras, L., Vargas, J.M., 2013. Rabbits and hominin survival in Iberia. Journal of Human Evolution.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2013. Book review of ‘Human Biogeography.’ By A.H. Harcourt (2012). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. American Journal of Human Biology, 25 (5).
  • Miller, R., Zwyns, N., Otte, M., Stevens, C., Stewart, J., 2012. The Mesolithic and Neolithic sequence at Trou Al'Wesse (Belgium): Multidisciplinary results. Anthropologie, 116 (2), 99-126.
  • Hofreiter, M., Collins, M., Stewart, J.R., 2012. Ancient biomolecules in Quaternary palaeoecology. Quaternary Science Reviews, 33, 1-13.
  • Stewart, J.R., Stringer, C.B., 2012. Human Evolution Out of Africa: The Role of Refugia and Climate Change. Science, 335, 1317-1321.
  • Miller, R., Otte, M., Stewart, J.R., 2012. Modave/Modave: nouvelles decouvertes dans la sequence holocene du Trou Al'Wesse, fouilles 2009-2010. Chronique de l'Archeologie Wallone, 19, 128-130.
  • Stewart, J., 2012. Serial population extinctions in a small mammal indicate Late Pleistocene ecosystem instability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA, 109 (50), 1317-1321.
  • Stewart, J., 2012. Serial population extinctions in a small mammal indicate Late Pleistocene ecosystem instability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA.
  • Lister, A.M., Brooks, S.J., Fenberg, P.B., Glover, A.G., James, K.M., Johnson, K.G., Michel, E., Okamura, B., Spencer, M., Stewart, J.R., Todd, J.A., Valsami-Jones, E., Young, J., 2011. Natural history collections as sources of long-term datasets. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 26, 153-154.
  • Lister, A.M., Brooks, S.J., Fenberg, P.B., Glover, A.G., James, K.M., Johnson, K.G., Michel, E., Okamura, B., Spencer, M., Stewart, J.R., Todd, J.A., Valsami-Jones, E., Young, J., 2011. Letter to TREE: Natural history collections as sources of long-term datasets. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 26, 153-154.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2011. A Key to the Identification of Domestic Bird Bones in Europe: preliminary determination. JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 38 (3), 753-754.
  • Johnson, K.G., Brooks, S.J., Fenberg, P.B., James, K.E., Glover, A.G., Lister, A.M., Michel, E., Spencer, M., Todd, J.A., Valsami-Jones, E., Young, J., Stewart, J.R., 2011. Climate change and biosphere response: unlocking the collections vault. BioScience, 61, 147-153.
  • Hofreiter, M., Collins, M., Stewart, J.R., 2011. Ancient biomolecules in Quaternary palaeoecology. Quaternary International.
  • Hofreiter, M., Collins, M., Stewart, J.R., 2011. Ancient biomolecules in Quaternary palaeoecology. Quaternary Science Reviews.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2011. Book review: Birds (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 486 pp. ISBN: 978-0-521-75858-1. £29.99 (paperback). Environmental Archaeology, 16, 67-68.
  • Stewart, J.R., Aspinall, S., Beech, M., Fenberg, P., Hellyer, P., Larkin, N., Lokier, S.W., Marx, F.G., Meyer, M., Miller, R., Rainbow, P.S., Taylor, J.D., Whittaker, J.E., Al-Mehsin, K., Strohmenger, C.J., 2011. Biotically constrained palaeoenvironmental conditions of a Mid-Holocene intertidal lagoon in Abu Dhabi: Evidence associated with a whale skeleton at Musaffah, Abu Dhabi, UA. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30, 3675-3690.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2010. The bird remains from the West Runton Freshwater Bed Norfolk, England. Quaternary International, 228, 72-90.
  • Stewart, J.R., Lister, A.M., Barnes, I., Dalen, L., 2010. Refugia revisited: individualistic responses of species in space and time. Proceedings of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 277, 661-671.
  • Miller, R., Otte, M., Stewart, J.R., 2010. Nouvelles découvertes de la séquence holocène du Trou Al’Wesse : Fouilles 2010. Notae Praehistoricae, 30, 35-42.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2010. Book Review of A Key to the Identification of Domestic Bird Bones in Europe: Preliminary Determination, Z. Bochenski, T. Tomek. Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow (2009). PP. 109, £ 45.50. ISBN 978-83-61358-04-6. and A Key to the Identification of Domestic Bird Bones in Europe: Galliformes and Columbiformes, T. Tomek, Z. Bochenski. Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow (2009). PP. 111, £ 45.50. ISBN 978-83-61358-08-4. Journal of Archaeological Science.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2009. The evolutionary consequence of the individualistic response to climate change. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 22, 2363-2375.
  • Hofreiter, M., Stewart, J.R., 2009. Ecological change, range fluctuations and population dynamics during the Pleistocene. Current Biology, 19, R584-R594.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2009. Review of YALDEN, D.W. & ALBARELLA, U. The History of British Birds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-19-921751-9. John R Stewart. Ibis, 151, 605.
  • Miller, R., Otte, M., Stewart, J.R., 2009. Le Mesolithique recent du Trou Al'Wesse (Modave, Prov. de Liege) Decouverte de tessons non rubanes ou "Bereikeramik". Notae Praehistoricae, 29, 5-14.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2008. The progressive effect of the individualistic response of species to Quaternary climate change: an analysis of British mammalian faunas. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27, 2499-2508.
  • Stewart, J.R., Dalén, L., 2008. Is the glacial refugium concept relevant for northern species? A comment on Pruett and Winker 2005. Climatic Change, 86, 19-22.
  • Miller, R., Zwyns, N., Stewart, J.R., Otte, M., 2008. Modave/Modave: interpretation des datations de la sequence holocene du Trou Al'Wesse. Chronique de l'Archeologie Wallone, 15.
  • Stewart, J.R., Cooper, A., 2008. Ice Age refugia and Quaternary extinctions: An issue of Quaternary evolutionary palaeoecology. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27, 2443-2448.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2007. The fossil and archaeological record of the Eagle Owl in Britain. British Birds, 100, 481-486.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2007. Neanderthal extinction as part of the faunal change in Europe during Oxygen Isotope Stage 3. Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 50A, 93-124.
  • Miller, R., Stewart, J.R., Otte, M., 2007. Résultats préliminaires de l’étude de la séquence paléolithique au Trou Al’Wesse (comm. de Modave). Notae Praehistoricae, 27, 41-49.
  • Stewart, J.R., Beech, M., 2006. The Miocene birds of Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) with a discussion of the age of modern species and genera. Historical Biology, 18, 103-113.
  • Wenban-Smith, F.F., Allen, P., Bates, M.R., Parfitt, S.A., Preece, R.C., Stewart, J.R., Turner, C., Whitaker, J.E., 2006. The Clactonian elephant butchery site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet, UK. Journal of Quaternary Science, 21, 471-483.
  • Miller, R., Zwyns, N., Stewart, J.R., Otte, M., 2006. Trou Al’Wesse: Campagne de Fouille 2006. Notae Praehistoricae, 26, 103-108.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2006. Book review: Neanderthals and modern humans. An ecological and evolutionary perspective, C. Finlayson. Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004 (265 pp.). ISBN: 0 521 82087 1. Journal of Quaternary Science, 21, 206-207.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2005. The ecology and adaptation of Neanderthals during the non-analogue environment of Oxygen Isotope Stage 3. Quaternary International, 137, 35-46.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2005. The use of modern geographical ranges in the identification of archaeological bird remains. Documenta Archaeobiologiae, 3, 43-54.
  • Miller, R., Zwyns, N., Stewart, J.R., Otte, M., Noiret, P., 2005. La séquence Holocène du Trou Al’Wesse: géologie, archaéologie et environment. Notae Praehistoricae, 25, 129-144.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2004. Neanderthal–modern human competition? A comparison between the mammals associated with Middle and Upper Palaeolithic industries in Europe during OIS 3. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 14, 178-189.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2004. Wetland birds in the recent fossil record of Britain and northwest Europe. British Birds, 97, 33-43.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2003. Comment on “Buffered Tree Population Changes in a Quaternary Refugium: Evolutionary Implications”. Science, 299, 825a.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2002. Sea Birds from coastal and non-coastal archaeological and “natural” Pleistocene Deposits or not all unexpected deposition is of human origin. Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 45 (Special Issue), 167-178.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2002. Book Review of ‘Late Pleistocene reindeer populations in Middle and Western Europe. An osteometrical study of Rangifer tarandus’ by Jacobo Weinstock. Archaeofauna, 213-214.
  • Stewart, J.R., Lister, A.M., 2001. Cryptic northern refugia and the origins of modern biota. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 16, 608-613.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2000. Intraspecific Variation in Modern and Quaternary European Lagopus. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, 89, 159-168.
  • Currant, A.C., Stewart, J.R., 2000. A rare Lutrine fossil from the beach at Cadzand in Holland. Cranium, 17, 78-79.
  • Gardiner, M., Stewart, J.R., Bell, G., 1998. Anglo-Saxon whale exploitation: some evidence from Dengemarsh, Lydd, Kent. Medieval Archaeology, 42, 96-101.
  • Stewart, J.R., Carrasquilla, F.H., 1997. The Identifcation of Extant European Bird Remains: a Review of the Literature. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 7, 364-371.

Books

  • Stewart, J., Carrion, J.S., Lalueza-Fox, C., 2019. Neanderthals: Ecology and Evolution. Elsevier.
  • Stewart, J., Miller, R., Otte, M., 2014. Le site prehistorique du Trou Al'Wesse, Modave. Origines, Services de Prehistoire, University de Liege.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2008. Ice Age refugia and Quaternary extinctions: An issue of Quaternary evolutionary palaeoecology.. Elsevier.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2007. The Evolutionary study of some Archaeologically Significant Avian Taxa in the Quaternary of the Western Palaearctic.. Oxford, England: Archaeopress.
  • Stewart, J., Miller, R., Zwyns, N., Otte, M., Noiret, P., 2005. Le site Prehistorique du Trou Al'Wesse a Modave. Service de Prehistoire, Universite de Liege.
  • Proceedings of the 4th meeting of the ICAZ Bird Working Group, Krakow, Poland, 11-15 September, 2001.. Krakow: Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Chapters

  • Louchart, A., Bibi, F., Stewart, J.R., 2022. Birds from the Baynunah Formation. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. 125-139.
  • Louchart, A., Bibi, F., Stewart, J.R., 2022. The birds of the late Miocene Baynunah Formation, Abu Dhabi Emirate. In: Bibi, F., Kratz, B., Beech, M., Hill, A., eds. Sands of time: late Miocene fossils from the Baynunah Formation, U.A.E.. Cham (Switzerland): Springer.
  • Stewart, J.R., Parfitt, S.A., 2011. Late Quatermary environmental change at Walou Cave: evidence from a preliminary analysis of the small mammals. In: Draily, C., Pirson, S., Toussaint, M., eds. La Grotte Walou a Trooz (Belgique). Namur, Belgium: Departement du Patrimoine et l'Institut du Patrimoine Wallon, 38-59.
  • Pirson, S., Draily, C., Bovy, B., Cornet, Y., Court-Picon, M., Damblon, F., Debenham, N., Demoulin, A., De Wilde, B., Haesaerts, P., Juvigné, E., La Grappe, P., Parfitt, S.A., Pirouelle, F., Renson, V., Stewart, J.R., Udrescu, M., Van Neer, W., Wouters, W., Toussaint, M., 2011. Contexte chronostratigraphique et paléoenvironnemental de la séquence de la grotte Walou: synthèse et perspectives. In: Draily, C., Pirson, S., Toussaint, M., eds. La Grotte Walou a Trooz (Belgique). Fouilles de 1996 a 2004. Les Sciences de la Vie et les datations. Namur, Belgium: Departement du Patrimoine et l'Institut du Patrimoine Wallon, 214-233.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2010. The Bird Bones from H3. In: Carter, R., Crawford, H., eds. Maritime Interactions in the Arabian Neolithic: Evidence from H3, As-Sabiyah, an Unbaid-Related Site in Kuwait.. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 157-161.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2010. Understanding evolutionary processes during past Quaternary climatic cycles: Can it be applied to the future? In: Grant, F., Mergeay, J., Santamaria, L., Young, J., Watt, A.D., eds. Evolution and Biodiversity: The evolutionary basis of biodiversity and its potential for adaptation to global change. Report of an e. Mallorca, Spain: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, INBO, IMEDA, CSIC-UIB.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2009. The Past as a source of data for evidence-based conservation: is the past the key to the future? In: Turvey, S.T., eds. Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 249-261.
  • Miller, R., Stewart, J.R., Zwyns, N., Otte, M., 2009. The Stratified Early to Late Mesolithic Sequence at Trou Al'Wesse (Modave, Belgium). In: Crombé, P., Van Strydonck, M., Sergant, J., Boudin, M., Bats, M., eds. Chronology and Evolution within the Mesolithic of North-West Europe: Proceedings of an International Meeting, Brussels, May 30th-June 1st 2007. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 277-296.
  • Stewart, J.R., Parfitt, S.A., 2006. Small Vertebrate Remains from Pupicina Cave Ostaci malih kralježnjaka iz Pupićine peći. In: Miracle, P.T., Stašo, F., eds. Prehistoric herders of northern Istria : the archaeology of Pupicina Cave. Pula, Croatia: Archeoloski Muzejistre, 447-453.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2005. Miocene geology and fossils of Abu Dhabi. In: Beech, M., Hellyer, P., eds. Abu Dhabi – 8 million years ago. Late Miocene Fossils from the Western Region.. Abu Dhabi, UAE: Abu Dhabi Archaeological Survey, 14-20.
  • Keeley, H., Allison, E., Branch, N., Cameron, N., Dobinson, S., Ellis, I., Ellison, P., Fairbain, A., Green, C., Hunter, R., Lee, J., Locker, A., Lowe, J., Palmer, A., Robinson, E., Stewart, J.R., Wilkinson, K., 2004. The environmental evidence. In: Clark, P., eds. Dover Bronze Age Boat. Swindon, England: English Heritage, 229-250.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2004. The Fate of the Neanderthals – a special case or simply part of the broader Late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions? In: Dewez, M., Noiret, P., Teheux, E., eds. The Upper Palaeolithic: Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress, Liege, Belgium, 2 – 8 September 2001.. Oxford: Archaeopress, 261-273.
  • Stewart, J.R., van Kolfschoten, M., Markova, A., Musil, R., 2003. The Mammalian Faunas of Europe during Oxygen Isotope Stage Three. In: van Andel, T.H., Davies, S.W., eds. Neanderthals and Modern Humans in the European Landscape During the Last Glaciation: Archaeological Results of the Stage 3 Project.. Cambridge, England: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
  • Stewart, J.R., van Kolfschoten, M., Markova, A., and Musil, R., 2003. Neanderthals as part of the broader Late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions? In: van Andel, T.H., Davies, W., eds. Neanderthals and Modern Humans in the European Landscape during the Last Glaciation: Archaeological Results of the Stage 3 Project.. Cambridge: McDonald Institute Monograph Series, 221-232.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2002. The evidence for the timing of speciation of modern continental birds and the taxonomic ambiguity of the Quaternary fossil record. In: Zhou, Z., Zhang, F., eds. Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution. Beijing, China: Science Press, 261-282.
  • Stewart, J.R., 2001. Wetland birds in the archaeological and recent palaeontological record of Britain and Europe. In: Coles, B., Oliver, A., Bull, D.E., eds. Heritage Management of Wetlands. Brussels: Europae Archaeologiae Consilium, 141-148.
  • Davies, S.W.G., Stewart, J.R., van Andel, T.H., 2000. Neanderthal landscapes – a promise. In: Stringer, C.B., Barton, R.N.E., Finlayson, J.C., eds. Neanderthals on the edge : papers from a conference marking the 150th anniversary of the Forbes' Quarry discovery, Gibraltar. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1-8.
  • Harrison, C.J.O., Stewart, J.R., 1999. The birds remains. In: Roberts, M.B., Parfitt, S.A., eds. The Middle Pleistocene Hominid Site at A.R.C. Eartham Quarry. Boxgrove, West Sussex, U.K.. London: English Heritage.
  • Stewart, J.R., 1999. The avifauna. In: Ashton, N.M., Lewis, S.G., Parfitt, S., eds. Excavations at the Lower Palaeolithic site at East Farm, Barnham, Suffolk, 1989-94. London: British Museum Press.
  • Stewart, J.R., 1998. Small vertebrates remains. In: Tingle, M., eds. The Prehistory of Beer Head: Field survey and excavation at an isolated flint source on the South Devon coast.. Oxford: Archaeopress, 23-26.
  • Stewart, J.R., 1996. Quaternary birds from Torbryan Valley. In: Charman, D.J., Newnham, R.M., Croot, D.G., eds. Devon and East Cornwall: Field Guide. London: Quaternary Research Association.

Reports

Software

PhD Students

  • Becca Rickard, 2027. Birdscapes: The Palaeoecological Links between Climate Change, Vegetation change and British Farmland Birds in the Archaeological Record
  • Oxala García-Rodríguez. Comparative phylogeography as an integrative approach to understand human and other mammal distributions in Europe.
  • Monika Knul. The project examines the dynamics of geographic ranges of both mammals that went extinct and those that survived during one of the most dramatic climatic changes in recent history: the Last Glacial Maximum up to the beginning of the Holocene. Furthermore it also explores changes in bio-geography in response to changes in climate between 60.000 and 8000 years ago. This comparative approach is likely to provide novel insights into the ways in which species respond to climate change and human presence e.g. the cause of mega faunal and Neanderthal extinction.
  • Jacqueline Pitt. The ecology of chickens: An examination of the introduction of the domestic chicken across Europe after the Bronze Age
  • Peter Allen. Investigating and visualising the effects of environment on prey detection: A Key variable in human evolution.

Grants

  • The historic peat record: A guide to restoration of blanket bog (Natural England, 01 Oct 2014). Completed
  • The Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition at Trou Al'Wesse (Belgium) (Leakey Foundation). Completed
  • Investigating the relationship between the Initial Upper Palaeolithic from Gorny-Altai and Mongolia: excavation at Tolbor 16 and Tolbor 17. (Leakey Foundation). Completed
  • The Ecological Background to Neanderthal Extinction and Evolution (Santander Scholarships 2011-12). Awarded
  • The Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition at Trou Al'Wesse (Belgium) (Leakey Foundation). Completed
  • LATE NEANDERTAL ADAPTATION IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE: (Leakey Foundation). Awarded
  • Taphonomic comparison between cave bear remains from recently excavated Trou Al’Wesse with those from other Belgian caves already analysed (Goyet) (European Union-funded Integrated Activities grant – Synthesis Grant.). Completed
  • Taphonomic comparison between cave bear remains from recently excavated Trou Al’Wesse with those from other Belgian caves already analysed (Goyet) (European Union-funded Integrated Activities grant – Synthesis Grant.). Completed
  • A DNA barcode approach to identify palaeontological bird remains (European Union-funded Integrated Activities grant – Synthesis Grant.). Completed
  • A DNA barcode approach to identify palaeontological bird remains (European Union-funded Integrated Activities grant – Synthesis Grant.). Completed
  • On the trail of the Initial Upper Paleolithic in Northeast Asia: the Tolbor 16 site (Northern Mongolia) (Leakey Foundation). Completed
  • PALEOFLORA IBÉRICA EN UN CONTEXTO DE BIOCOMPLEJIDAD: INTERACCIONES FISIOGRÁFICAS, ECOLÓGICAS Y EVOLUTIVAS (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spanish National Grant)). Completed
  • ArcheoNIR: Archaeological and archaeometric applications of Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) and Hyperspectral Chemical Imaging (HCI): Analysis of the Pleistocene and Holocene fauna at Trou Al'Wesse (Belgium) (FNRS-FRFC grant 2.4621.12). Completed

Qualifications

  • PhD in Zoology (UCL, London University, 1999)
  • MSc in Quaternary Environmental Change (Guildhall University, 1992)
  • BSc (Hons) in Geology (London University, 1988)

Memberships

  • Quaternary Research Association, Member,
  • Association for Environmental Archaeology, Member,
  • Society for Avian Palaeontology and Evolution, Member,
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