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M. Prendergast

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h-index: 34
Works: 90
Citations: 3,251

Most-cited papers

Reconstructing Prehistoric African Population Structure
P. Skoglund, Jessica C. Thompson, M. Prendergast, A. Mittnik +40 more
2017Cell360 citations Open access
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Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present
R. Marchant, S. Richer, Oliver J. C. Boles, C. Capitani +49 more
2018185 citations Open access
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The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world
C. Ottoni, W. Van Neer, B. de Cupere, J. Daligault +25 more
2017Nature Ecology & Evolution147 citations Open access
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Ancient DNA Reveals a Multi-Step Spread of the First Herders into Sub-Saharan Africa
M. Prendergast, Mark Lipson, Elizabeth A. Sawchuk, Í. Olalde +29 more
2019Science138 citations Open access
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Ancient West African foragers in the context of African population history
Mark Lipson, I. Ribot, S. Mallick, N. Rohland +30 more
2020Nature126 citations Open access
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78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest
C. Shipton, P. Roberts, W. Archer, S. Armitage +24 more
2018Nature Communications114 citations Open access
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Ethics of DNA Research on Human Remains: Five Globally Applicable Guidelines
Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg, David Anthony, Hiba Babiker, E. Bánffy +60 more
2021Nature109 citations Open access
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Ancient DNA and deep population structure in sub-Saharan African foragers
Mark Lipson, Elizabeth A. Sawchuk, Jessica C. Thompson, Jonas Oppenheimer +40 more
2022Nature107 citations Open access
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An Experimental Study of Bipolar and Freehand Knapping of Naibor Soit Quartz from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)
F. Diez-Martín, P. S. Yustos, M. Domínguez-Rodrigo, M. Prendergast
2011American Antiquity104 citations
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Indian Ocean Food Globalisation and Africa
N. Boivin, A. Crowther, M. Prendergast, D. Fuller
201495 citations
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Continental Island Formation and the Archaeology of Defaunation on Zanzibar, Eastern Africa
M. Prendergast, H. Rouby, Paramita Punnwong, R. Marchant +6 more
2016PLoS ONE88 citations Open access
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Subsistence mosaics, forager-farmer interactions, and the transition to food production in eastern Africa
A. Crowther, M. Prendergast, D. Fuller, N. Boivin
2017Quaternary International85 citations Open access
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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
Fernando Diez-Martín, L. D. de Luque, P. Sánchez, Antonio Tarriño +4 more
200981 citations
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Boots on the ground in Africa's ancient DNA ‘revolution’: archaeological perspectives on ethics and best practices
M. Prendergast, Elizabeth A. Sawchuk
2018Antiquity75 citations Open access
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Coastal Subsistence, Maritime Trade, and the Colonization of Small Offshore Islands in Eastern African Prehistory
A. Crowther, P. Faulkner, M. Prendergast, E. Q. Quintana Morales +10 more
201675 citations Open access
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New Excavations at Mumba Rockshelter, Tanzania
M. Prendergast, L. Luque, M. Domínguez-Rodrigo, F. Diez-Martín +2 more
200773 citations
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Earliest known human burial in Africa
M. Martinón-Torres, F. d'Errico, Elena Santos, Ana Álvaro Gallo +32 more
2021Nature65 citations Open access
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Taphonomic Analyses of a Hyena Den and a Natural-Death Assemblage Near Lake Eyasi (Tanzania)
M. Prendergast, M. D. Rodrigo
200862 citations
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Reconstructing Asian faunal introductions to eastern Africa from multi-proxy biomolecular and archaeological datasets
M. Prendergast, Michael Buckley, A. Crowther, L. Frantz +25 more
2017PLoS ONE59 citations Open access
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New excavations at the FLK Zinjanthropus site and its surrounding landscape and their behavioral implications
M. Domínguez-Rodrigo, H. T. Bunn, Audax Mabulla, G. M. Ashley +8 more
2010Quaternary Research58 citations
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Resource intensification in the Late Upper Paleolithic: a view from southern China
M. Prendergast, Jiarong Yuan, O. Bar-Yosef
200953 citations
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Iron Age agriculture, fishing and trade in the Mafia Archipelago, Tanzania: new evidence from Ukunju Cave
A. Crowther, M. Horton, Anna M. Kotarba-Morley, M. Prendergast +7 more
201451 citations
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Late Pleistocene to Holocene human palaeoecology in the tropical environments of coastal eastern Africa
P. Roberts, M. Prendergast, Anneke Janzen, C. Shipton +8 more
202047 citations Open access
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Forager variability and transitions to food production in secondary settings: Kansyore and Pastoral Neolithic economies in East Africa
M. Prendergast
200947 citations
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Reinvestigation of Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar, reveals Later Stone Age coastal habitation, early Holocene abandonment and Iron Age reoccupation
C. Shipton, A. Crowther, Nikos Kourampas, M. Prendergast +14 more
201644 citations Open access
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Climate, ecology, and the spread of herding in eastern Africa
K. Chritz, T. Cerling, K. Freeman, E. Hildebrand +2 more
2019Quaternary Science Reviews43 citations
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Kansyore fisher-foragers and transitions to food production in East Africa: the view from Wadh Lang'o, Nyanza Province, Western Kenya
M. Prendergast
201043 citations
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Molecular and isotopic evidence for milk, meat, and plants in prehistoric eastern African herder food systems
Katherine M. Grillo, J. Dunne, F. Marshall, M. Prendergast +12 more
2020Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America42 citations Open access
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Publisher Correction: 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest
C. Shipton, P. Roberts, W. Archer, S. Armitage +24 more
2018Nature Communications40 citations Open access
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Dietary Diversity on the Swahili Coast: The Fauna from Two Zanzibar Trading Locales
M. Prendergast, E. Q. Quintana Morales, A. Crowther, M. Horton +1 more
2017International Journal of Osteoarchaeology40 citations Open access
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Iron Age hunting and herding in coastal eastern Africa: ZooMS identification of domesticates and wild bovids at Panga ya Saidi, Kenya
C. Culley, Anneke Janzen, Samantha Brown, M. Prendergast +5 more
2021Journal of Archaeological Science39 citations Open access
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Pastoral Neolithic sites on the southern Mbulu Plateau, Tanzania
M. Prendergast, A. Mabulla, Katherine M. Grillo, L. Broderick +3 more
201338 citations
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Middle Holocene fishing strategies in East Africa: zooarchaeological analysis of Pundo, a Kansyore shell midden in northern Nyanza (Kenya)
M. Prendergast, P. Lane
201038 citations
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Pastoral Neolithic Settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzania
Katherine M. Grillo, M. Prendergast, Daniel A. Contreras, Tom Fitton +5 more
201836 citations Open access
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New Dates for Kansyore and Pastoral Neolithic Ceramics in the Eyasi Basin, Tanzania
M. Prendergast, Katherine M. Grillo, A. Mabulla, Hong Wang
201435 citations
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Sorting the sheep from the goats in the Pastoral Neolithic: morphological and biomolecular approaches at Luxmanda, Tanzania
M. Prendergast, Anneke Janzen, Michael Buckley, Katherine M. Grillo
2018Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences34 citations
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Middle Stone Age archaeology at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Metin I. Eren, A. Durant, M. Prendergast, A. Mabulla
201433 citations
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Poison arrows and bone utensils in late Pleistocene eastern Africa: evidence from Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar
M. Langley, M. Prendergast, C. Shipton, E. Q. Quintana Morales +2 more
201632 citations Open access
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Entwined African and Asian genetic roots of medieval peoples of the Swahili coast
Esther S. Brielle, J. Fleisher, S. Wynne-Jones, K. Sirak +40 more
2023Nature31 citations Open access
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The Middle to Later Stone Age transition at Panga ya Saidi, in the tropical coastal forest of eastern Africa.
C. Shipton, J. Blinkhorn, W. Archer, N. Kourampas +7 more
2021Journal of Human Evolution30 citations Open access
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Late Quaternary speleogenesis and landscape evolution in a tropical carbonate island: Pango la Kuumbi (Kuumbi Cave), Zanzibar
Nikos Kourampas, C. Shipton, W. Mills, Ruth Tibesasa +8 more
201529 citations Open access
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Lithic Technology: Comparing and Synthesizing Unifacial Stone Tool Reduction Indices
Metin I. Eren, M. Prendergast
200829 citations
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Fishing in a fluctuating landscape: terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene subsistence strategies in the Lake Turkana Basin, Kenya
M. Prendergast, Amanuel Beyin
201724 citations
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Diet, economy, and culinary practices at the height of precolonial Swahili urbanism
E. Q. Quintana Morales, O. Craig, M. Prendergast, Sarah C. Walshaw +6 more
2022Journal of anthropology and archaeology18 citations Open access
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The influence of ancient herders on soil development at Luxmanda, Mbulu Plateau, Tanzania
Michael J. Storozum, Steven T. Goldstein, Daniel A. Contreras, A. Gidna +3 more
202117 citations Open access
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New radiocarbon dates for terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene settlements in West Turkana, northern Kenya
Amanuel Beyin, M. Prendergast, Katherine M. Grillo, Hong Wang
201717 citations
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Collagen fingerprinting traces the introduction of caprines to island Eastern Africa
C. Culley, Anneke Janzen, Samantha Brown, M. Prendergast +11 more
2021Royal Society Open Science16 citations Open access
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Detecting and mapping the ‘ephemeral’: magnetometric survey of a Pastoral Neolithic settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzania
Tom Fitton, Daniel A. Contreras, A. Gidna, A. Mabulla +2 more
2022Antiquity13 citations Open access
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Animals and their uses in the Swahili world
E. Q. Quintana Morales, M. Prendergast
201712 citations
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Organic technology in the Pastoral Neolithic: osseous and eggshell artefacts from Luxmanda, Tanzania
M. Langley, M. Prendergast, Katherine M. Grillo
2017Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences11 citations
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