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academic publications list

Academic Publications

Finlayson, J C 1977 Wintering Chiffchaffs. Bull. Gib. Ornithol. Group 1(2): 8-9

Finlayson, J C 1978a Roosting behaviour of the Crag Martin Hirundo rupestris in its winter quarters at Gibraltar. Alectoris 1(1): 23-29

Finlayson J C 1978b Irruptive behaviour in the Dartford Warbler Sylvia undata dartfordiensis, Latham, in Gibraltar. Alectoris 1(1): 47

Finlayson, J C 1979a The ecology and behaviour of closely related species at Gibraltar (with special reference to swifts and warblers). D.Phil. Thesis, University of Oxford

Finlayson, J C 1979b Movements of the Fan-tailed Warbler Cisticola juncidis at Gibraltar. Ibis 121: 487-489

Finlayson, J C 1980 The recurrence in winter quarters at Gibraltar of some scrub passerines. Ringing & Migration 3: 32-34

Finlayson J C 1981 Seasonal distribution, weights and fat of passerine migrants at Gibraltar. Ibis 123: 88-95

Finlayson, J C 1983 Recent trends and changes in the status of the birds of Gibraltar. Alectoris 5: 2-9

Finlayson, J C 1990 The distribution of the Coal Tit Parus ater in southern Spain. Alectoris 7: 86-87

Finlayson, J C 1991 The Gibraltar Museum: its past, present and future status in the Gibraltarian community. MSc Thesis in Museum Studies. The University of Leicester.

Finlayson, J C 1992 Birds of the Strait of Gibraltar. Academic Press (T & A D Poyser), London. 534pp

Finlayson, J C 1994 History of the Gibraltar excavations. In Rodriguez Vidal, J, Díaz del Olmo, F, Finlayson J C, Giles Pacheco, F (eds.) Gibraltar during the Quaternary. AEQUA Monografias 2: 2-5. Sevilla.

Finlayson, J C 1996 Integrative Indicator selection and Use Across Multiple Resource-Classes and Scales: Avian Example. Ecological Summit 96, Paper 50.3. Copenhagen, Denmark

Finlayson, C. 1996. William Willoughby Cole Verner. Gibraltar Heritage Journal 3: 91-99.

Finlayson, J C 1996 El Medio Natural: Avifauna y migración. Jornadas tecnicas regeneración de humedales - La Janda. Vejer.

Finlayson, J. C. 1998. The Role of the Iberian Peninsula in the Palaearctic-African migration system: ecological, evolutionary, geographical and historical considerations at varying spatial and temporal scales.  In Costa, L.T., Costa, H., Araújo, M. & Silva, M.A. (eds.) Simpósio sobre Aves Migradoras na Península Ibérica. SPEA e Universidade de Évora, Evora. 2-32.

Finlayson, J.C. 1998. The ecology of the Mediterranean Neanderthals and some possible causes of their Iberian extinction. In Colloque Les premiers hommes modernes de la Péninsule Ibérique. Commission VIII de l’UISPP. Vila Nova de Foz Coa.

Finlayson, J.C. 1999. Species Abundances Across Spatial Scales. Science 283: 1979a.

Finlayson, C. 1999. Late Pleistocene Human Occupation of the Iberian Peninsula. J.Iberian Archaeology 1: 59-68.

Finlayson, C. 2000. Biogeografia, Ecologia, Cambios Climaticos y Ocupacion Humana en el sur de Andalucia en el Pleistoceno. In Santiago Perez, A., Martinez Garcia, A. & Mayoral Valsera, J. (Eds.). I Congreso Andaluz de Espeleologia. 33-37.

Finlayson, C. 2001. Criteria for the Management of a Fortress City: Gibraltar, a Case Study. Urban Development and Preservation of the Morphology of World Heritage Fortress Cities. UNESCO, Korea. 53-70.

Finlayson, C. 2001. El karst gibraltareño como testigo del comportamiento de los grupos humanos del pleistoceno superior. Boletín N^o 2, Sedeck, Sociedad Española de Espeleología y Ciencias del Karst, pp. 80-81.

Finlayson, J. C. 2002. Diversity of marine birds within the Mediterranean Sea. Ecology & Noospherology 11 (1-2): 76-78

Finlayson, C. 2002. The role of climate in the spatio-temporal pattern of human colonization and extinction in the Pleistocene with specific reference to the Mediterranean Region. In Ruiz Zapata, B. et al. (Eds.). Quaternary Climatic Changes and Environmental Crises in the Mediterranean Region. Universidad de Alcala de Henares.

Finlayson, C. 2004 . Neanderthals and Modern Humans. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Finlayson, J.C., Barton, R.N.E., Giles Pacheco, F., Finlayson, G., Fa, D., Currant, A.P. & Stringer, C.B. 2000. Human occupation of Gibraltar during Oxygen Isotope Stages 2 and 3 and a comment on the late survival of Neanderthals in the southern Iberian Peninsula. Paleolitico da Peninsula Iberica. Actas do 3.⁰ Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular. Vol.II.: 277-286.

Finlayson, J. C., Barton, R. N. E. & Stringer, C. B. 2000. The Gibraltar Neanderthals and their extinction. In Zilhao, J., Aubry, T. & Faustino Carvalho, A. (Eds.). Les premieres homes modernes de la Péninsule Ibérique. Trabalhos de Arqueologia 17: 117-122.

Finlayson J C & Cortes, J E 1984 The migration of Gannets Sula bassana past Gibraltar in spring. Seabird 7: 19-22

Finlayson, J C & Cortes, J E 1987 The birds of the Strait of Gibraltar. Its waters and northern shore. Alectoris 6: 1-74

Finlayson, C., Fa, D., Finlayson, G., Giles Pacheco, F., Gutierrez Lopez, J. M. & Santiago Perez, A. 2001. Use of the landscape by humans from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Neolithic. The case of the northern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar. Almoraima 25: 65-71.

Finlayson, C., Fa, D., Finlayson, G., Giles Pacheco, F. & Rodriguez Vidal, J. (2004). Did the moderns kill off the neanderthals? A reply to d’Errico & Sanchez Goñi. Quaternary Science Reviews 23: 1205-1209.

Finlayson, J.C. & Finlayson, G. 1998. Cambio climatico, vegetación y fauna del Sistema Bético – consideraciones sobre sus efectos en la ocupación humana en la Serranía de Ronda durante los estadios isotopicos 3 y 2. Jornadas de Campo del Grupo Andaluz del Cuaternario (AEQUA-GAC). FAE, Sevilla.

Finlayson, C., Finlayson, G., Mosquera, M. & Fa, D. 2002. The breeding bird community in the cork oak woodland of Cádiz and its significance in the context of the south and west of the Iberian Peninsula. Almoraima 27: 27-31

Finlayson, J C, Garcia, E F J, Mosquera, M A & Bourne, W R P 1976 Raptor migration across the Strait of Gibraltar. Brit. Birds 69: 77-87

Finlayson, J.C., Giles Pacheco, F., Recio-Espejo, J.M., Mas-Cornellá, M., Castro Roman, J.C., Dueñas Lopez, M A, Finlayson, G. and Mosquera, M.A.J. 1997 Integrative multi-scale analysis of the impact of the drainage of the La Janda lake (Cádiz Province, Spain) and a model for its sustainable regeneration. In Usó, J L, Brebbia, C A and Power, H (eds.) Ecosystems and Sustainable Development. Advances in Ecological Sciences 1: 203-212

Finlayson, C., Fa, D. & Finlayson, G. 2000. Biogeography of Human Colonizations and Extinctions in the Pleistocene. Mem. GIBCEMED 1(2): 1-69

Finlayson, C., Fa, D. A., Finlayson, G. & Viagas, C. 2004. The World Heritage List. Balancing Representation. In Edgar Tavares Lopez (Ed.) La Representatividad en la Lista del Patrimonio Mundial. El Patrimonio Cultural y Natural de Iberoamérica, Canadá y Estados Unidos. CONACULTA-INAH/ICOMOS, Mexico. pp 39-45

Finlayson, J.C. and Giles Pacheco, F. 2000. The southern Iberian Peninsula in the Late Pleistocene: Geography, Ecology and Human Occupation. In Stringer, C. B., Barton, R. N. E. & Finlayson, C. (Eds.). Gibraltar and the Neanderthals 1848-1998. Oxbow, Oxford. 133-138.

Finlayson, C., Giles Pacheco, F., Gutierrez-Lopez, J.M., Santiago Perez, A., Mata Almonte, E., Allue, E. & Garcia, N. 1999. Recientes excavaciones en el nivel neolitico de la Cueva de Gorham (Gibraltar. Extremo Sur de Europa). Saguntum Extra 2: 213-222.

Finlayson, J C & Holliday, S 1990 The Eleonora’s Falcon Falco eleonorae at Gibraltar. Alectoris 7: 88-89

Finlayson, J C & Menez, A 1994 Holocene environments of the Strait of Gibraltar. In Rodriguez Vidal, J, Díaz del Olmo, F, Finlayson J C, Giles Pacheco, F (eds.) Gibraltar during the Quaternary. AEQUA Monografias 2:118-122

Finlayson, J C, Mosquera, M A J, Finlayson, G & Mosquera, J 1994 The mountain peaks of the Strait of Gibraltar as habitat islands for cold temperate bird species. In Rodriguez Vidal, J, Díaz del Olmo, F, Finlayson J C, Giles Pacheco, F (eds.) Gibraltar during the Quaternary. AEQUA Monografias 2: 125-128

Finlayson J C, Mosquera, M A J, Finlayson, G, Mosquera, J & Finlayson, S. 1994. La laguna de La Janda aún conserva su esplendor. Quercus 102: 25-27

Finlayson, J C, Mosquera, M and Finlayson, G. 1997 Birds as Indicators of Climatic and Environmental Change: Current Distribution Patterns in the Iberian Peninsula and Evidence from Pleistocene and Holocene Cave Deposits. Cuaternario Ibérico: 297-304. Huelva

Finlayson, G., Mosquera, M. A. J., Fa, D. & Finlayson, C. 2002. The breeding distribution of Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita brehmi and Bonelli’s Warbler Phylloscopus bonelli in southern Spain. Almoraima 27: 23-26.

Aguilera Garcia, J., Aguilera Garcia, J., Latin, J. P., Durrell, R., Santiago Perez, A., Finlayson, C., Giles Pacheco, F. & Finlayson, G. 2000. Stay-Behind Cave – the unique finding of a forgotten story. In Santiago Perez, A., Martinez Garcia, A. & Mayoral Valsera, J. (Eds.). I Congreso Andaluz de Espeleologia. 225-229.

Barton, R.N.E., Currant, A.P., Fernandez-Jalvo, Y., Finlayson, J.C., Goldberg, P., Macphail, R., Pettitt, P.B. & Stringer, C.B. 1999. Gibraltar Neanderthals and results of recent excavations in Gorham’s, Vanguard and Ibex Caves. Antiquity 279: 13-23

Bound, M. & Finlayson, J.C. 1995. Surveying and excavating the Spanish ‘battering’ ships from the Great Siege of Gibraltar: an interim report. In Bound, M. (ed.). The Archaeology of Ships of War. Anthony Nelson. Oswestry. pp 64-76.

Fa, D., Bound, M., Finlayson, C. & Lario, J. 2001. The underwater archaeological and historical heritage of Gibraltar. Almoraima 25: 429-435.

Fa, D., Garcia Gomez, J. C., Sheader, M., Finlayson, C., Fernandez-Nespral Calero, R., Sanchez Moyano, J. E., Garcia Adiego, E. & Estacio, F. 2002. The Saladillo Harbour: littoral communities across pollution gradients and a novel application of the ‘Rapoport Effect’ in pollution biomonitoring. XII Simposio Iberico de Estudios del Bentos Marino. 68.

Fa, D., Lario, J., Smith, P. & Finlayson, J. C. 2000. Elementos sumergidos karsticos alrededor de la costa de Gibraltar y su potencial uso por humanos en la prehistoria. In Santiago Perez, A., Martinez Garcia, A. & Mayoral Valsera, J. (Eds.). I Congreso Andaluz de Espeleologia. 143-149.

Fa, D., Sanchez Moyano, J. E., Garcia Asencio, I., Garcia Gomez, J. C., Finlayson, C. & Sheader, M. 2002. A comparative study of the marine eco-regions of the south Iberian Peninsula as identified from different coastal habitats. XII Simposio Iberico de Estudios del Bentos Marino. 69.

Giles Pacheco, F., Finlayson, C., Gutierrez, J. M., Finlayson, G., Reinoso del Rio, C., Giles Guzman, F. & Mata, E. 2001. Primer sondeo arqueológico en Bray’s Cave: campaña de excavaciones 1999. The Gibraltar Caves Project. Almoraima 25: 73-80.

Giles Pacheco, F., Finlayson, C., Gutierrez, J. M., Finlayson, G., Santiago Perez, A., Reinoso del Rio, C. & Giles Guzman, F. 2000. Primer sondeo arqueologico en Bray’s Cave. Campaña de excavaciones 1999. The Gibraltar Caves Project. . In Santiago Perez, A., Martinez Garcia, A. & Mayoral Valsera, J. (Eds.). I Congreso Andaluz de Espeleologia. 207-216.

Giles, F., Finlayson, J. C., Rodriguez Vidal, J., Santiago, A., Gituierrez Lopez, J. M., Fa, D., Mata, E., Finlayson, G. & Giles Guzman, F. 2001. Referencias a las dataciones en los sistemas karsticos con ocupaciones humanas del Peñon de Gibraltar. Bol. SEDECK 2: 86-90.

Giles Pacheco, F., Finlayson,C., Santiago Pérez, A., Fa, D., Gutiérrez López, J. M. & Finlayson, G. 2002. The effect of climate change on the distribution of humans in southern Iberia in the late Quaternary. In Ruiz Zapata, B. et al. (Eds.). Quaternary Climatic Changes and Environmental Crises in the Mediterranean Region. Universidad de Alcala de Henares.

Giles Pacheco, F., Finlayson, C., Santiago Perez, A., Gutierrez Lopez, J. M., Mata Almonte, E., Finlayson, G., Reinoso del Rio, C., Giles Guzman, F. & Allue, E. 2000. Investigaciones arqueologicas en Gorham’s Cave, Gibraltar. Resultados preliminaries de las campañas de 1997 a 1999. In Santiago Perez, A., Martinez Garcia, A. & Mayoral Valsera, J. (Eds.). I Congreso Andaluz de Espeleologia. 185-205.

Giles Pacheco, F., Gracia Prieto, F. J., Santiago Perez, A., Mata Almonte, E., Gutierrez Lopez, J. M., Finlayson, C., Piñatel Vera, F., Aguilera Rodriguez, L. & Barton, N. 2000. Pleistoceno en Gibraltar y su entorno. Poblamiento Paleolitico del ultimo interglaciar. Arqueologia 25: 19-37.

Gutiérrez López, J.M., Mata Almonte, E., Finlayson, C., Giles Pacheco, F., Blanes Delgado, C., Santiago Pérez, A. & Aguilera Rodríguez, L. 1998. Gibraltar: Medieval Archaeology. Primeras aportaciones de un proyecto de investigación. Excavación arqueológica en el Museo de Gibraltar. In Torremocha Silva, A. (ed.) I Congreso Internacional Fortificaciones en al-Andalus. Algeciras, 1996. 417-432.

Gutierrez Lopez, J. M., Reinoso del Rio, M. C., Giles Pacheco, F. & Finlayson, C. 2001. Nuevos estudios sobre el santuario de Gorham’s Cave (Gibraltar). Almoraima 25: 13-30.

Piñatel Vera, F., Gomez Arroquia, M. I., Giles Pacheco, F. & Finlayson, C. 2001. Las atarazanas medievales de Gibraltar. Almoraima 25: 221-238.

Rodriguez Vidal, J., Caceres, L. M., Gracia, F. J., Martinez Aguirre, A., Finlayson, J. C., Giles, F., Santiago, A. & Peguero, C. 2002. El relieve karstico de Gibraltar como registro morfosedimentario durante el Cuaternario (Mediterraneo occidental). Bol. SEDECK 3: 6-15.

Rodriguez Vidal, J., Giles, F., Finlayson, J. C., Santiago, A., Gutierrez Lopez, J. M., Caceres, L. M. & Peguero, C. 2002. La cantera de Forbes (Gibraltar) como patrimonio natural karstico. In Carrasco, F., Duran, J. J. & Andreo, B. (Eds.). Karst & Environment. 305-310.

Rodriguez-Vidal, J., Caceres, L. M., Finlayson, J. C., Garcia, F. J. & Martinez-Aguirre, A. (2004) Neotectonics and shoreline history of the Rock of Gibraltar, southern Iberia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 23: 2017-2029.

Santiago, A., Aguilera, J., Giles, F., Aguilera, J., Finlayson, C., Rodriguez Vidal, J., Martinez, A. & Gutierrez, J. M. 2001. Trabajos espeleologicos llevados a cabo en las cavidades del Peñon de Gibraltar en el marco del Gibraltar Caves Project. Bol. SEDECK 2: 6-15.

Santiago, A., Giles, G., Finlayson, C. & Gutierrez, J. M. 2001. El depósito Neolítico de Rich Sands Cave (Punta Europa, Gibraltar). Almoraima 25: 31-36.

Santiago Perez, A., Lario, J., Giles Pacheco, F., Finlayson, C., Gutierrez Lopez, J. M., Durrell, R., Bramble, I., Latin, J. P. & Aguilera Garcia, J. 2000. El deposito neolitico de Rich Sands Cave, Punta de Europa, Gibraltar. In Santiago Perez, A., Martinez Garcia, A. & Mayoral Valsera, J. (Eds.). I Congreso Andaluz de Espeleologia. 177-183.

Stringer, C.B., Barton, R.N.E., Currant, A.P., Finlayson, J.C., Goldberg, P., MacPhail, R. & Pettit, P. 1999 (in press). Gibraltar Palaeolithic revisited: new excavations at Gorham’s and Vanguard Caves 1995-7. In Charles, R. & Davis, W. (eds.) Studies in honour of D.A.E.Garrod. Oxford, Oxbow.

Other Publications

Finlayson, J.C. 1993. A Birdwatchers’ Guide to Southern Spain and Gibraltar. Prion. Perry. 89pp.

Finlayson, J C & Tomlinson, D 1993 Birds of Iberia. Mirador, Málaga. 217pp.

Cortes, J. E., Finlayson, J. C. , Mosquera,  M. A. J. & Garcia, E. F. J. 1980. The Birds of Gibraltar. Gibraltar Bookshop. Gibraltar. 119pp.

Other Related Matters

Co-editor (with R.N.E. Barton and C.B.Stringer) of the volume “Living on the edge – Gibraltar and the Neanderthals” Oxbow Books, Oxford (2000)

Co-director (with C.B.Stringer, J. Rodriguez Vidal and F.Giles Pacheco) of the Gibraltar Caves Research Project 1991-present

Organiser of the Calpe ’97, ’98, ’99, ’01, ’02 and ‘04 International Conferences in Gibraltar.

Supervised doctoral theses for the Universities of Oxford, Cardiff, Southampton and Anglia (UK)

Doctoral thesis examiner for the University of Córdoba, Rovira I Virgili and Autonoma de Madrid (Spain)

Collaborated with Professor Larry Sawchuk of the University of Toronto on anthropological research in Gibraltar 1987-present

Researched and assisted in a number of international television documentaries on ecology and on human evolution, in particular for the BBC Natural History Unit, National Geographic Explorer Series, Discovery Channel and Television Española. Most recently with BBC Television in a Horizon documentary on human origins to be screened in February 2005

Researched and presented several Gibraltar Television series on the Heritage of Gibraltar.

Contributed to a number of scientific programmes produced by BBC Radio.

Researched and assisted in the production of two National Geographic Magazine articles, one on Gibraltar and the other on Neanderthals.

Regular writer of popular science and history articles in the Gibraltar press, particularly the Gibraltar Chronicle, as well as for popular historical and science magazines.

Founder and Chairman of the Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural History Society 1978-1992

Trustee of the Gibraltar Heritage Trust 1987-1989

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