Mary E. Prendergast

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Mary E. Prendergast is a scholar working on Anthropology, Paleontology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mary E. Prendergast has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Anthropology, 14 papers in Paleontology and 14 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Mary E. Prendergast's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (24 papers), Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (14 papers) and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (14 papers). Mary E. Prendergast is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (24 papers), Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (14 papers) and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (14 papers). Mary E. Prendergast collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Spain. Mary E. Prendergast's co-authors include Nicole Boivin, Alison Crowther, Manuel Domínguez‐Rodrigo, Audax Mabulla, Fernando Diéz Martín, Andrew M. Fogarty, Martin Cormican, Neil J. Rowan, Dearbháile Morris and E. McGillicuddy and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Mary E. Prendergast

47 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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Silver nanoparticles in the environment: Sources, detection and ecotoxicology

2016 423 citations E. McGillicuddy, Siobhán Kavanagh et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

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Xueping Ji China

Françoise Delpech France

Mark Horton United Kingdom

Jeannette Jacqueline Łucejko Italy

David L. Lentz United States

Caroline Cartwright United Kingdom

Freek Braadbaart Netherlands

G. Giachi Italy

Martine Regert France

Eliso Kvavadze Georgia

Xueping Ji China

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20 of 20 papers shown

Prendergast, Mary E., Jennifer M. Miller, Ogeto Mwebi, et al.. (2023). Small game forgotten: Late Pleistocene foraging strategies in eastern Africa, and remote capture at Panga ya Saidi, Kenya. Quaternary Science Reviews. 305. 108032–108032. 4 indexed citations

Prendergast, Mary E.. (2023). Genetics and Archaeology. African Archaeological Review. 40(4). 805–809. 1 indexed citations

Stewart, Mathew, Sean Hixon, Madeleine Bleasdale, et al.. (2023). Late Pleistocene to late Holocene palaeoecology and human foraging at Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar Island. 2. 1 indexed citations

Sawchuk, Elizabeth & Mary E. Prendergast. (2023). Reconciling Archaeology and Legacy at Gishimangeda Cave, Tanzania. African Archaeological Review. 41(1). 3–26. 1 indexed citations

Contreras, Daniel A., et al.. (2022). Detecting and mapping the ‘ephemeral’: magnetometric survey of a Pastoral Neolithic settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzania. Antiquity. 96(386). 298–318. 3 indexed citations

Morales, Eréndira M. Quintana, Oliver E. Craig, Mary E. Prendergast, et al.. (2022). Diet, economy, and culinary practices at the height of precolonial Swahili urbanism. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 66. 101406–101406. 11 indexed citations

Janzen, Anneke, Samantha Brown, Mary E. Prendergast, et al.. (2021). Collagen fingerprinting traces the introduction of caprines to island Eastern Africa. Royal Society Open Science. 8(7). 202341–202341. 10 indexed citations

Prendergast, Mary E., Agness Gidna, Enrique Baquedano, et al.. (2021). Do human butchery patterns exist? A study of the interaction of randomness and channelling in the distribution of cut marks on long bones. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 18(174). 20200958–20200958. 6 indexed citations

Shipton, Ceri, James Blinkhorn, William Archer, et al.. (2021). The Middle to Later Stone Age transition at Panga ya Saidi, in the tropical coastal forest of eastern Africa. Journal of Human Evolution. 153. 102954–102954. 19 indexed citations

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Grillo, Katherine M., Julie Dunne, Fiona Marshall, et al.. (2020). Molecular and isotopic evidence for milk, meat, and plants in prehistoric eastern African herder food systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(18). 9793–9799. 31 indexed citations

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Lipson, Mark, Mary E. Prendergast, Isabelle Ribot, Carles Lalueza‐Fox, & David Reich. (2019). Ancient Human DNA from Shum Laka (Cameroon) in the Context of African Population History. 1 indexed citations

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Prendergast, Mary E., Eréndira M. Quintana Morales, Alison Crowther, Mark Horton, & Nicole Boivin. (2017). Dietary Diversity on the Swahili Coast: The Fauna from Two Zanzibar Trading Locales. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 27(4). 621–637. 27 indexed citations

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Prendergast, Mary E., Hélène Rouby, Rob Marchant, et al.. (2016). Continental Island Formation and the Archaeology of Defaunation on Zanzibar, Eastern Africa. PLoS ONE. 11(2). e0149565–e0149565. 54 indexed citations

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McGillicuddy, E., Siobhán Kavanagh, Liam Morrison, et al.. (2016). Silver nanoparticles in the environment: Sources, detection and ecotoxicology. The Science of The Total Environment. 575. 231–246. 423 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kourampas, Nikos, Ceri Shipton, W. J. Mills, et al.. (2015). Late Quaternary speleogenesis and landscape evolution in a tropical carbonate island: Pango la Kuumbi (Kuumbi Cave), Zanzibar. International Journal of Speleology. 44(3). 293–314. 17 indexed citations

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Crowther, Alison, Mark Horton, Anna M. Kotarba-Morley, et al.. (2014). Iron Age agriculture, fishing and trade in the Mafia Archipelago, Tanzania: new evidence from Ukunju Cave. Azania Archaeological Research in Africa. 49(1). 21–44. 32 indexed citations

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Prendergast, Mary E.. (2010). Kansyore fisher-foragers and transitions to food production in East Africa: the view from Wadh Lang'o, Nyanza Province, Western Kenya. Azania Archaeological Research in Africa. 45(1). 83–111. 33 indexed citations

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Martín, Fernando Diéz, Luis Luque, Policarpo Sánchez, et al.. (2009). The Middle to Later Stone Age Technological Transition in East Africa. New Data from Mumba Rockshelter Bed V (Tanzania) and their Implications for the Origin of Modern Human Behavior. Journal of African Archaeology. 7(2). 147–173. 65 indexed citations

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Prendergast, Mary E. & Manuel Domínguez Rodrigo. (2008). Taphonomic Analyses of a Hyena Den and a Natural-Death Assemblage Near Lake Eyasi (Tanzania). 6(3). 301–335. 49 indexed citations

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Prendergast, Mary E. & Paul Lane. (2008). Middle Holocene fishing strategies in East Africa: zooarchaeological analysis of Pundo, a Kansyore shell midden in northern Nyanza (Kenya). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 20(1). 88–112. 30 indexed citations

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