20 Facts About Geraldine Finlayson

Geraldine Finlayson was director of the John Mackintosh Hall until October 2011.

Geraldine Finlayson has played a major role in developing the "Gibraltar method" of archaeological research, especially that carried out underwater, and is one of a team of scientists who have made major discoveries about the nature of Neanderthal culture.

Geraldine Finlayson worked in the civil service of the Government of Gibraltar from 1981 to 1993.

For many years, Geraldine Finlayson has studied the presence of Neanderthals in Gibraltar, having performed several excavations in the region, including underwater.

Geraldine Finlayson was Director of the John Mackintosh Hall from 1993 to 2011.

Geraldine Finlayson is currently the CEO of the Gibraltar National Museum.

Geraldine Finlayson is co-director of the Underwater Research Unit, the activities of which include surveying the seabed and caves for the Gibraltar Caves Project, conducting a comprehensive survey of Gibraltar's Submerged Heritage for the Heritage Database, and carrying out wreck surveys and pre-disturbance surveys on archaeological sites.

Geraldine Finlayson is a qualified diver and diving instructor, a tutor with the Nautical Archaeology Society, and at the Gibraltar Museum.

At the sixth Iberian Quaternary Congress in 2006, Geraldine Finlayson "presented an innovative method in which she reconstructed in fine detail the habitat of the Neanderthals outside Gorham's Cave".

Geraldine and Clive Finlayson gave a lecture on human evolution at the University of Granada in 2009.

In November 2010, Geraldine Finlayson gave a lecture at the Annual Conference of the Nautical Archaeological Society held at Portsmouth University in the UK.

Geraldine Finlayson made a guest appearance as herself, in the episode 48 of the first season of the Austrian television series Terra Mater.

Geraldine Finlayson gave representatives of the media a tour of Gorham's Cave during the annual expert exploration thereof in 2012.

Geraldine Finlayson was one of the authors of a paper by "Key to a lost world in Gibraltar", that was published in 2013 in Geomorphology.

In 2003 Finlayson and the rest of the Gibraltar Museum team were awarded first prize in the National Archeological Society's "Adopt-a-Wreck" programme for their work on the armed trawler HMS Erin, and in 2006 Geraldine was granted the Gibraltar Award in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.

In 2018, Geraldine Finlayson was appointed adjunct professor at Liverpool John Moores University's Faculty of Science.

In 2019, Geraldine Finlayson was bestowed the Gibraltar Medallion of Distinction, together with her husband Clive, for their work on Gorham's Cave.

Geraldine Finlayson's husband, Clive Geraldine Finlayson, is an evolutionary ecologist who is curator at the Gibraltar National Museum and who, along with his wife, participates in digs in the Neanderthal caves in Gibraltar and elsewhere.

Geraldine Finlayson keeps a blog about these activities at clivehumanevo.

Geraldine Finlayson is the author of the book Neanderthals and Modern Humans.