Contact

Phone

03 83448284

Email

amy.prendergast@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials

Position
Decra Fellow
Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Education
PhD (Archaeology)
University of Cambridge
PhD
Cambridge, University of
Bachelor of Science (Hons) (Earth Sciences)
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Arts (Classics and Archaeology)
University of Melbourne
ORCID

0000-0001-9890-7927

Dr. Amy Prendergast

Decra Fellow
Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
34 Scholarly works
7 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2020

    Research Grant

    RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE, EARLY MODERN HUMAN DISPERSAL, AND NEANDERTHAL DEMISE
  • 2020

    Research Grant

    ENVIRONMENTAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE ALONG THE CENTRAL MURRAY RIVER
  • 2020

    Journal article

    Fundamental questions and applications of sclerochronology: Community-defined research priorities
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106977
  • 2020

    Book Chapter

    Molluscs (Isotopes): Analyses in Environmental Archaeology
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_2162
  • 2019

    Journal article

    Extensive elemental mapping unlocks Mg/Ca ratios as climate proxy in seasonal records of Mediterranean limpets
    DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-39959-9
  • 2018

    Journal article

    New evidence of megafaunal bone damage indicates late colonization of Madagascar
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0204368
  • 2016

    Internal Research Grant

    THE ROLE OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE EXPANSION OF EARLY MODERN HUMAN POPULATIONS AND THE DEMISE OF NEANDERTHALS
Amy Prendergast

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships

2017
John McKenzie Early Career Research Award
2012
Chrysalis Scholarship Association for Women Geoscientists
2011
Mary Euphrasia Mosley Award
2009
Rae and Edith Bennett Scholarship

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2018

    Journal article

    Year-round shellfish exploitation in the Levant and implications for Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer subsistence
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.08.014
  • 2018

    Journal article

    Seasonal records of palaeoenvironmental change and resource use from archaeological assemblages
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.08.006
  • 2018

    Journal article

    Mollusk carbonate thermal behaviour and its implications in understanding prehistoric fire events in shell middens
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.05.027
  • 2017

    Journal article

    Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies
    DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006
  • 2017

    Journal article

    Oxygen isotopes from limpet shells: Implications for palaeothermometry and seasonal shellfish foraging studies in the Mediterranean
    DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.03.007
  • 2017

    Journal article

    New research on the development of high-resolution palaeoenvironmental proxies from geochemical properties of biogenic carbonates
    DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.05.032

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2021

    Research Grant

    Using giant clam shell geochemistry to understand past environmental change and human-environment interaction in the South Pacific
  • 2021

    Research Grant

    Late Quaternary environmental change and seasonal resource use along the Central Murray River using freshwater shell midden sclerochronology