Peter S. Ungar

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Distinguished Professor

University of Arkansas

Also affiliated: California Institute of Technology (1980); State University of New York (1990–1991); Johns Hopkins University (1994–2000); Duke University (1994); University of the Witwatersrand (2003–2022); George Washington University (2010); University of Arkansas System (2001–2006); Johns Hopkins Medicine (1994–2000); Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (1977–1978); Duke Medical Center (1994–1995); National Museums of Kenya (1995); University College London (1951–1953); Southwest Jiaotong University (2017); New York University (1954–1982); Stony Brook University (1990–1991); Carnegie Mellon University (1980)

66 h-index 347 pubs 13,567 cited

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OverviewAI-generated summary

Peter S. Ungar, a Distinguished Professor at the University of Arkansas, studies the evolution of human diet and feeding behaviors, often utilizing dental microwear texture analysis. His research investigates how diet has shaped the development of early human ancestors and examines dietary variability within fossil hominin species.

Ungar's work has been supported by federal grants, including a $633,969 NSF award for collaborative research on the interactions of natural and social systems with climate change, globalization, and infrastructure development in the Arctic. He has published extensively on topics such as dental microwear, mammalian teeth, and the diets of early hominins. His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 66, 347 total publications, and 13,515 total citations, designating him as a highly cited researcher. Ungar leads a research group and maintains an active lab website, collaborating with colleagues primarily within the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Metrics

h-index: 66
Publications: 347
Citations: 13,567

Positions

Distinguished Professor 2010–present

University of Arkansas Anthropology ORCID

Selected Publications

Land cover, plant functional type, and forage quality in the reindeer herding district of Sattasniemi, Finland (2026)

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Dental microwear textures of reindeer data from northern herding districts in Finnish Lapland, 1993-1994. (2025)

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Dental microwear from the Harappan sites of Juna Khatiya and Rakhigarhi, India (2025)

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Forbs in Viking lands: the effect of disturbing dominant graminoids on recruitment in tundra grasslands (2025)

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Dental Microwear and Diets of Late Miocene Primates From Rudabánya, Hungary (2025)

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Comparing Dental Microwear in the Populations at an Iron Age (c. 4010 BP) and Early Historic (c. 2600 BP) Site in South India (2025)

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Small rodent disturbance impact on Arctic graminoid forage quality (2025)

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Dental microwear of bovids from the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition in the lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia (2025)

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Dental microwear and diet of the latest Miocene ape in southern China (Lufengpithecus lufengensis) (2025)

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Dental microwear of Neogene cercopithecoids from the Turkana Basin, Kenya (2025)

Journal of Human Evolution 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
Forbs in Viking lands: The effect of disturbing dominant graminoids on forb recruitment in tundra grasslands (2024)

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On the use of dental microwear texture analysis to determine aetiology and assess wear of dental tissues for clinical evaluation (2024)

Biosurface and Biotribology 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Small rodent disturbance impact on Arctic graminoid forage quality. (2024)

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MIOCENE LANDSCAPE RECONSTRUCTION AND FAUNAL EVOLUTION IN KENYA’S TURKANA BASIN: A REPORT FROM THE TURKANA MIOCENE PROJECT (2024)

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Paleodiet reconstruction of Procapra przewalskii from the Qinghai Lake Basin during the Early and Middle Holocene (2024)

Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 2 citations DOI OpenAlex