Dr. Amy Louise Prendergast

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsGeochemistry (Inorganic, Organic, Biological),Prehistory and World Archaeology
Keywordsarchaeology, stable isotope geochemistry, human-environment interation, palaeoclimate, Sclerochronology

Current contact address

CountryAustralia
CityCarlton
InstitutionUniversity of Melbourne
InstituteSchool of Anthropology, Geography, and Environmental Sciences
Homepagehttp://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person782464

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Bernd R. SchöneAbteilung für Angewandte und Analytische Paläontologie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2014

Programme(s)

2013Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2016Amy Prendergast, Rhiannon Stevens,Tamsin O'Connell, Graeme Barker: A late Pleistocene refugium in Mediterranean North Africa? Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from stable isotope analysis of land snail shells (Haua Fteah, Libya). Quaternary Science Reviews. 139, 94-109.. In: Quaternary Science Reviews, 2016, 94-109
2016Amy Prendergast, Rhiannon Stevens, Tamsin O’Connell, Adham Fadlallak, Mohammed Touati, Abdulgahder Al Muzeni, Bernd Schöne, Chris Hunt, Graeme & Barker: Changing patterns of eastern Mediterranean shellfish exploitation in the Late Glacial and Early Holocene: oxygen isotope evidence from Phorcus turbinatus shells in Epipaleolithic to Neolithic human occupation layers at the Haua Fteah cave, Libya. In: Quaternary International, 2016, 80-93
2016Stefania Milano, Amy Prendergast, Bernd Schöne: Effects of cooking on mollusk shell structure and chemistry: implications for archeology and paleoenvironmental reconstruction. In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2016, 14-26
2015Marjolein Bosch, Marcello Mannino, Amy Prendergast, Tamsin O’Connell, Beatrice Demarchi, Sue Taylor, Laura Niven, Johannes van der Plicht, Jean-Jacques Hublin, New chronology for Ksâr ‘Akil (Lebanon) supports Levantine route of modern human dispersal into Europe. In: Proceedings of the National academy of Sciences, 2015, 7683-7688
2015Amy Prendergast, Rhiannon Stevens, Graeme Barker, Tamsin O’Connell: Oxygen isotope signatures from land snail (Helix melanostoma) shells and body fluid: proxies for reconstructing Mediterranean and North African rainfall. In: Chemical Geology, 2015, 87-98
2015Marjolein Bosch,Marcello Mannino, Amy Prendergast, Tamsin O’Connell, Beatrice Demarchi, Sue Taylor, Laura Niven,Johannes, van der Plicht, Jean-Jacques Hublin: Reply to Douka et al: Critical evaluation of the Ksâr ‘Akil chronologies.. In: Proceedings of the National academy of Sciences, 2015, 7683-7688
2014E de Boer, R Tjallingii, M Velez, K Rijsdiik, A Vlug, G Reichart, A Prendergast, P Louw, V Florens, C Baider, H Hooghiemstra: Climate variability in the SW Indian Ocean from an 8000-yr long multi-proxy record from the Mauritanian lowlands shows a middle to late Holocene shift from negative IOD-state to ENSO-state. In: Quaternary Science Reviews, 2014, 175-189
2014Lucy Farr, Ross Lane, R., Fadl Abdulazeez, Paul Bennett, James Holman, Marasi, Amy Prendergast, Motaz Al- Zweyi, M. Graeme Barker: The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2013: the seventh season of investigation of the Haua Fteah cave.. In: Libyan Studies, 2014, 163-173
2013Amy Prendergast, Marthese Azzopardi, Tamsin O’Connell, Chris Hunt, Graeme Barker, Rhiannon Stevens: Oxygen isotopes from Osilinus turbinatus as a proxy for sea surface temperature in the central Mediterranean: a case study from Malta. In: Chemical Geology, 2013, 77-86
2012Amy Prendergast, Nick Brown: Far field impact and coastal sedimentation associated with the 2006 Java tsunami in West Australia: Post-tsunami Survey at Steep Point, Western Australia. In: Natural Hazards, 2012, 69-79
2012Amy Prendergast, Matt Cupper, Kruawun Jankaew, Yuki Sawai: Indian Ocean tsunami recurrence from optical dating of tsunami sand sheets in Thailand. . In: Marine Geology, 2012, 20-27
2008Kruawun Jankaew, Brian Atwater, Yuki Sawai, Montri Choowong, T Charoentitirat, Beth Martin, Amy Prendergast: Medieval forewarning of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami in Thailand. Nature, 455, 1228-1231.. In: Nature, 2008, 1228-1231