Curriculum Vitae (last updated August 2010) Click here to download a PDF version EDUCATION RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2006-present: Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania), project participant and field school lecturer. 2005-2007: Sonai Rockshelter (Tanzania), co-director of excavations, zooarchaeologist. 2005-2007: Mumba Rockshelter (Tanzania), co-director of excavations, zooarchaeologist. 2005-2007: Wadh Lang’o (Kenya), zooarchaeologist. 2004-2007: Yuchanyan Cave (China), excavator and zooarchaeologist. 2006: Pundo (Kenya), zooarchaeologist. 2006: Gileodabeshta & Jangwani (Tanzania), co-director of excavations, zooarchaeologist. 2004: Pierce Farm, Harvard Forest (U.S.A.), participant in soil science field school. 2004: Hohle Fels (Germany), excavator, assistant to project zooarchaeologist. 2003: Dzudzuana (Rep. Georgia), trench supervisor. 2003: Pincevent (France), excavator, assistant to project zooarchaeologist. 2003: Etiolles (France), excavator. 1999: Kourion-Amathus Gate Cemetery Field School (Cyprus), teaching assistant. 1998: Petra Southern Temple (Jordan), trench supervisor. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2010: Professor, "Introduction to Anthropology," St Louis University in Madrid 2009: Instructor, "Introduction to Archaeology," Harvard Summer School 2007: Lecturer, University of Dar es-Salaam field school, Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania). 2006: Co-director, University of Dar es-Salaam field school, Lake Eyasi (Tanzania). 2005: Teaching Fellow, “Introduction to Archaeology,” Harvard University. 2004: Teaching Fellow, “Introduction to World Prehistory,” Harvard University. 2004: Teaching Fellow, “Comparative Analysis of Ancient Civilizations,” Harvard University. 1999: Teaching Assistant, Kourion-Amathus Gate Cemetery Field School (Cyprus).
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE 2005-2006: Affiliated Researcher, National Museums of Kenya. 2004-2005: Director, Harvard University Weekly Lecture Series in Archaeology. 2001: Archaeological Collections Manager, Lava Beds National Monument, California. RESEARCH GRANTS 2007-2008: Harvard Dissertation Completion Fellowship. 2006-2007: Wenner-Gren Doctoral Dissertation Fieldwork Grant. 2006-2007: NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. 2006-2006: Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship (Harvard). 2006: American School of Prehistoric Research Fieldwork Grant. 2005: Harvard Graduate Society Summer Fieldwork Award.
2006: Student Paper Award (with Metin Eren), Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting. 2005: Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard/Derek Bok Center for Teaching. 2004: Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard/Derek Bok Center for Teaching.
Prendergast, M.E., editor. (2010). Diversity in East African Foraging and Food Producing Communities. Special volume of Azania resulting from chaired session at the Biannual Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists. Prendergast, M.E. (2010). Kansyore fisher-foragers and transitions to food production in East Africa: the view from Wadh Lang’o, Nyanza Province, Kenya. Azania 45(1)83-111. Prendergast, M.E. and P.J. Lane. (2010). Middle Holocene Fishing Strategies in East Africa: zooarchaeological analysis of Pundo, a Kansyore shell midden in northern Nyanza (Kenya). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 20:88-112. Prendergast,
M.E. and K. Mutundu. (2009). Late Holocene Archaeological Faunas in
East Africa: Ethnographic Analogues and Interpretive Challenges. Documenta Archaeobiologiae 7:203-232. Prendergast, M.E., J. Yuan and O. Bar-Yosef. (2009). Resource Intensification in the Late Upper Paleolithic: a view from Southern China. Journal of Archaeological Science 36:1027-1037. Prendergast, M.E. and M. Domínguez-Rodrigo. (2008). Taphonomic Analyses of a Hyena Den and a Natural-Death Assemblage near Lake Eyasi (Tanzania). Journal of Taphonomy 6(3-4):301-335. Prendergast, M.E., L. Luque, M. Domínguez-Rodrigo, F. Díez Martín, A. Mabulla and R. Barba. (2007). New Excavations at Mumba Rockshelter (Tanzania). Journal of African Archaeology 5(2): 163-189. Eren, M. and M.E. Prendergast. (2008). “Comparing and Synthesizing Lithic Reduction Indices,” in Lithic Technology: Measures of Production, Use and Curation, edited by W. Andrefsky, pp. 49-85. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Díez-Martín, F., M. Domínguez-Rodrigo, P. Sánchez, A. Mabulla, A. Tarriño, R. Barba, M.E. Prendergast and L. Luque. (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). Domínguez-Rodrigo,
M., H.T. Bunn, A.Z.P. Mabulla, G.M. Ashley, F. Diez-Martín, M.E.
Prendergast, R. Barba, A. Sánchez. (2010). The Behavioral
Meaning of FLK Zinj: New Excavations at the Site and its Surrounding
Landscape. Quaternary Research. PUBLICATIONS UNDER REVIEW AND IN PREPARATION Prendergast, M.E. (in preparation). Hunters and herders at the periphery: the spread of East African pastoralism. Proceedings of the meeting of the International Council for Archaeozoology. Prendergast, M.E., J. Yuan, and O. Bar-Yosef. (under review). The Fauna from Yuchanyan, a Late Upper Paleolithic Site in Hunan Province (in Chinese). Prendergast, M.E., A. Mabulla and M. Domínguez-Rodrigo. (in preparation). Sonai Rockshelter, a Middle Stone Age to Iron Age Site in Northern Tanzania. Tuross, N., D. Diaz, C. Warinner, H. Ashuraey, A. Austin, B. Everill, K. Kirsanow, S. Polsky, M.E. Prendergast, A. Tokovinine, K. Wangmo, W. Oswald, C. Makarewicz and J. Wright. (accepted with revisions). Sources and distribution of phosphorous in a reforested area of known past land use. BOOK REVIEWS Prendergast, M.E. (2009). Review of Chasse et Élevage dans la Corne d’Afrique entre le Néolithique et les temps historiques, by Joséphine Lesur. Azania 44(1):151-153. Prendergast, M.E. (2008). Review of The Evolution of Modern Humans in Africa: A Comprehensive Guide, by Pamela Willoughby. Journal of African Archaeology 6(2). OTHER PUBLICATIONS Prendergast, M.E. (2009). Forager variability and transitions to food production in secondary settings: Kansyore and Pastoral Neolithic economies in East Africa (dissertation abstract). Azania 44(2):276-277. CONFERENCE PAPERS Prendergast, M.E. (2010). "Hunters and herders at the periphery: the spread of pastoralism in East Africa." International Council for Archaeozoology, Paris. Prendergast, M.E. (2008). “Forager variation and transitions to food production in secondary settings: a view from Lake Victoria.” Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Frankfurt (session chair). Prendergast, M.E. and A. Mabulla. (2007) “Holocene Foragers and Food Producers: Recent Archaeological Research Near Lake Eyasi (Tanzania).” African Archaeology Research Day, Oxford. Prendergast, M.E. (2006). “Complex fisher-foragers on the eve of food production: the Kansyore of Kenya and Tanzania.” Invited paper, Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, San Juan. Eren, M. and Prendergast, M.E. (2006). “A Comparison of Reduction Indices on Experimental and Archaeological Stone Tool Assemblages.” Invited paper, Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, San Juan. Winner of the Student Paper Award. SERVICE Reviewer for Leakey Foundation, Journal of Archaeological Science, Journal of Taphonomy.
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