Mary E. Prendergast

Mary E. Prendergast publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Mary E. Prendergast D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Best Publications

• Reconstructing Prehistoric African Population Structure

  Pontus Skoglund;Jessica C. Thompson;Mary E. Prendergast;Alissa Mittnik

  456
  Citations

• The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world

  Claudio Ottoni;Wim Van Neer;Wim Van Neer;Bea De Cupere;Julien Daligault;Julien Daligault

  215
  Citations

• Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present

  Rob Marchant;Suzi Richer;Oliver Boles;Claudia Capitani

  204
  Citations

• Ancient DNA reveals a multistep spread of the first herders into sub-Saharan Africa

  Mary E. Prendergast;Mary E. Prendergast;Mark Lipson;Elizabeth A. Sawchuk;Iñigo Olalde

  204
  Citations

• Ancient DNA and deep population structure in sub-Saharan African foragers

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  200
  Citations

• Ancient West African foragers in the context of African population history

  Mark Lipson;Isabelle Ribot;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Nadin Rohland

  167
  Citations

• Ethics of DNA research on human remains: five globally applicable guidelines.

  Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg;Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg;David Anthony;David Anthony;Hiba Babiker;Eszter Bánffy

  131
  Citations

• Subsistence mosaics, forager-farmer interactions, and the transition to food production in eastern Africa

  Alison Crowther;Mary E. Prendergast;Dorian Q. Fuller;Nicole L. Boivin

  130
  Citations

• 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest

  Ceri Shipton;Ceri Shipton;Patrick Roberts;Will Archer;Will Archer;Simon J. Armitage;Simon J. Armitage

  129
  Citations

• An Experimental Study of Bipolar and Freehand Knapping of Naibor Soit Quartz from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)

  Fernando Diez-Martín;Policarpo Sánchez Yustos;Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Mary E. Prendergast

  115
  Citations

• Indian Ocean Food Globalisation and Africa

  Nicole Boivin;Alison Crowther;Alison Crowther;Mary Prendergast;Dorian Q. Fuller

  110
  Citations

• 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;Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Policarpo Sánchez;Audax Z.P. Mabulla

  106
  Citations

• Earliest known human burial in Africa

  María Martinón-Torres;Francesco d'Errico;Francesco d'Errico;Elena Santos;Elena Santos;Ana Álvaro Gallo

  104
  Citations

• Coastal subsistence, maritime trade, and the colonization of small offshore islands in eastern African prehistory

  Alison Crowther;Patrick Faulkner;Mary E. Prendergast;Eréndira M. Quintana Morales

  99
  Citations

• New Excavations at Mumba Rockshelter, Tanzania

  Mary E. Prendergast;Luis Luque;Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Fernando Diez-Martín

  94
  Citations

• Continental Island Formation and the Archaeology of Defaunation on Zanzibar, Eastern Africa

  Mary E. Prendergast;Hélène Rouby;Hélène Rouby;Paramita Punnwong;Robert Marchant

  86
  Citations

• Boots on the ground in Africa's ancient DNA ‘revolution’: archaeological perspectives on ethics and best practices

  Mary E. Prendergast;Elizabeth Sawchuk

  71
  Citations

• Resource intensification in the Late Upper Paleolithic: a view from southern China

  Mary E. Prendergast;Jiarong Yuan;Ofer Bar-Yosef

  70
  Citations

• Iron Age agriculture, fishing and trade in the Mafia Archipelago, Tanzania: new evidence from Ukunju Cave

  Alison Crowther;Mark Horton;Anna Kotarba-Morley;Mary Prendergast

  69
  Citations

• Reconstructing Asian faunal introductions to eastern Africa from multi-proxy biomolecular and archaeological datasets

  Mary E. Prendergast;Michael Buckley;Alison Crowther;Laurent Frantz;Laurent Frantz

  63
  Citations