Detailed information
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Higham
Summer term 2025
300021 PR Practical course in Radiocarbon Dating
300065 UE Scientific Writing
300076 VO Special Paleoanthropology - Origins and dispersal of Homo sapiens
Winter term 2024
300141 PR Practical course in Radiocarbon Dating
Summer term 2024
300076 VO Special Paleoanthropology - Origins and dispersal of Homo sapiens
Becerra-Valdivia, L., & Higham, T. (2022). Response to "Current Understanding of the Earliest Human Occupations in the Americas: Evaluation of Becerra-Valdivia and Higham (2020)". PaleoAmerica : a journal of early human migration and dispersal, 8(1), 77-78. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2021.1988229
Skov, L., Peyrégne, S., Popli, D., Iasi, L. N. M., Devièse, T., Slon, V., Zavala, E. I., Hajdinjak, M., Sümer, A. P., Grote, S., Bossoms Mesa, A., López Herráez, D., Nickel, B., Nagel, S., Richter, J., Essel, E., Gansauge, M., Schmidt, A., Korlević, P., ... Peter, B. M. (2022). Genetic insights into the social organization of Neanderthals. Nature, 610(7932), 519-525. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05283-y
Brown, S., Massilani, D., Kozlikin, M. B., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., Stoessel, A., Jope-Street, B., Meyer, M., Kelso, J., Pääbo, S., Higham, T., & Douka, A. (2021). The earliest Denisovans and their cultural adaptation. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6(1), 28-35. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01581-2
Brown, S., Kozlikin, M., Shunkov, M., Derevianko, A., Higham, T., Douka, K., & Richter, K. K. (2021). Examining collagen preservation through glutamine deamidation at Denisova Cave. Journal of Archaeological Science, 133, Article 105454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2021.105454
Brown, S., Wang, N., Oertle, A., Kozlikin, M. B., Shunkov, M., Derevianko, A. P., Comeskey, D., Jope-Street, B., Harvey, V. L., Chowdhury, M. P., Buckley, M., Higham, T., & Douka, A. (2021). Zooarchaeology through the lens of collagen fingerprinting at Denisova Cave. Scientific Reports, 11(1), Article 15457. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94731-2
Wang, C.-C., Reinhold, S., Kalmykov, A., Wissgott, A., Brandt, G., Jeong, C., Cheronet, O., Ferry, M., Harney, E., Keating, D., Mallick, S., Rohland, N., Stewardson, K., Kantorovich, A. R., Maslov, V. E., Petrenko, V. G., Erlikh, V. R., Atabiev, B. C., Magomedov, R. G., ... Haak, W. (2019). Ancient human genome-wide data from a 3000-year interval in the Caucasus corresponds with eco-geographic regions. Nature Communications, 10(1), Article 590. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08220-8
Wood, R., Bernaldo de Quirós, F., Maíllo-Fernández, J. M., Tejero, J. M., Neira, A., & Higham, T. (2018). El Castillo (Cantabria, northern Iberia) and the Transitional Aurignacian: Using radiocarbon dating to assess site taphonomy. Quaternary International, 474, 56-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.03.005
Olalde, I., Brace, S., Allentoft, M. E., Armit, I., Kristiansen, K., Booth, T., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Mittnik, A., Altena, E., Lipson, M., Lazaridis, I., Harper, T. K., Patterson, N., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Diekmann, Y., Faltyskova, Z., Fernandes, D., ... Reich, D. (2018). Erratum: The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe. Nature, 555(7697), 543. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature26164
Olalde, I., Brace, S., Allentoft, M. E., Armit, I., Kristiansen, K., Booth, T., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Mittnik, A., Altena, E., Lipson, M., Lazaridis, I., Harper, T. K., Patterson, N., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Diekmann, Y., Faltyskova, Z., Fernandes, D., ... Reich, D. (2018). The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe. Nature, 555(7695), 190–196. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25738
Mathieson, I., Alpaslan-Roodenberg, S., Posth, C., Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Olalde, I., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Candilio, F., Cheronet, O., Fernandes, D., Ferry, M., Gamarra, B., Fortes, G. G., Haak, W., Harney, E., Jones, E., Keating, D., Krause-Kyora, B., ... Reich, D. (2018). The genomic history of southeastern Europe. Nature, 555(7695), 197–203. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25778
Sikora, M., Seguin-Orlando, A., Sousa, V. C., Albrechtsen, A., Korneliussen, T., Ko, A., Rasmussen, S., Dupanloup, I., Nigst, P. R., Bosch, M. D., Renaud, G., Allentoft, M. E., Margaryan, A., Vasilyev, S. V., Veselovskaya, E. V., Borutskaya, S. B., Deviese, T., Comeskey, D., Higham, T., ... Willerslev, E. (2017). Ancient genomes show social and reproductive behavior of early Upper Paleolithic foragers. Science, 358(6363), 659-662. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao1807
Pleurdeau, D., Moncel, M.-H., Pinhasi, R., Higham, T., Agapishvili, T., Bokeria, M., Muskhelishvili, A., Le Bourdonnec, F.-X., Nomade, S., Poupeau, G., Bocherens, H., Frouin, M., Genty, D., Pierre, M., Pons-Branchu, E., Lordkipanidze, D., & Tushabramishvili, N. (2016). Bondi Cave and the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic Transition in western Georgia (South Caucasus). Quaternary Science Reviews, 146, 77-98. Article 146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.06.003
Jones, E. R., Gonzalez-Fortes, G., Connell, S., Siska, V., Eriksson, A., Martiniano, R., McLaughlin, R. L., Gallego-Llorente, M., Cassidy, L. M., Gamba, C., Meshveliani, T., Bar-Yosef, O., Müller, W., Belfer-Cohen, A., Matskevich, Z., Jakeli, N., Higham, T. F. G., Currat, M., Lordkipanidze, D., ... Bradley, D. G. (2015). Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians. Nature Communications, 6, 8912. Article 8912. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9912
Gallego-Llorente, M., Jones, E. R., Eriksson, A., Siska, V., Arthur, K. W., Curtis, M. C., Stock, J. T., Coltorti, M., Pieruccini, P., Stretton, S., Brock, F., Higham, T., Park, Y., Hofreitert, M., Bradley, D. G., Bhak, J., Pinhasi, R., & Manica, A. (2015). Ancient Ethiopian genome reveals extensive Eurasian admixture in Eastern Africa. Science, 350(6262), 820-822. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad2879
Moncel, M.-H., Pleurdeau, D., Pinhasi, R., Yeshurun, R., Agapishvili, T., Chevalier, T., Le Bourdonnec, F.-X., Poupeau, G., Nomade, S., Jennings, R., Higham, T., Tushubramishvili, N., & Lordkipanidze, D. (2015). The Middle Palaeolithic record of Georgia: a synthesis of the technological, economic and paleoanthropological aspects. Anthropologie: International Journal of Human Diversity and Evolution, 53(1-2), 93-125. http://puvodni.mzm.cz/Anthropologie/article.php?ID=1829
Manning, S. W., Hoeflmayer, F., Moeller, N., Dee, M. W., Ramsey, C. B., Fleitmann, D., Higham, T., Kutschera, W., & Wild, E. M. (2014). Dating the Thera (Santorini) eruption: archaeological and scientific evidence supporting a high chronology. Antiquity, 88(342), 1164-1179. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00115388
Pinhasi, R., Meshveliani, T., Matskevich, Z., Bar-Oz, G., Weissbrod, L., Miller, C. E., Wilkinson, K., Lordkipanidze, D., Jakeli, N., Kvavadze, E., Higham, T. F. G., & Belfer-Cohen, A. (2014). Satsurblia: New insights of human response and survival across the last glacial maximum in the southern caucasus. PLoS ONE, 9(10), Article e111271. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111271
Gamba, C., Jones, E. R., Teasdale, M. D., McLaughlin, R. L., Gonzales-Fortes, G., Mattiangeli, V., Domboróczki, L., Kövári, I., Pap, I., Anders, A., Whittle, A., Dani, J., Raczky, P., Higham, T., Hofreitert, M., Bradley, D. G., & Pinhasi, R. (2014). Genomic flux and stasis during five millennia of Hungarian prehistory. Nature Communications, 5, 1-9. Article 5.
Higham, T., Douka, K., Wood, R., Ramsey, C. B., Brock, F., Basell, L., Camps, M., Arrizabalaga, A., Baena, J., Barroso-Ruíz, C., Bergman, C., Boitard, C., Boscato, P., Caparrós, M., Conard, N. J., Draily, C., Froment, A., Galván, B., Gambassini, P., ... Jacobi, R. (2014). The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance. Nature, 512(7514), 306-309. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13621
Gamba, C., Jones, E. R., Teasdale, M. D., McLaughlin, R. L., Gonzalez-Fortes, G., Mattiangeli, V., Domboróczki, L., Kővári, I., Pap, I., Anders, A., Whittle, A., Dani, J., Raczky, P., Higham, T. F. G., Hofreiter, M., Bradley, D. G., & Pinhasi, R. (2014). Genome flux and stasis in a five millennium transect of European prehistory. Nature Communications, 5, 5257. Article 5257. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6257
Prehistory in a New Light
Katharina Rebay-Salisbury (Speaker) & Thomas Higham (Speaker)
11 Jan 2024
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Department of Evolutionary Anthropology
Deputy Head
Djerassiplatz 1 (UBB)
1030 Wien
Room: 4.057
T: +43-1-4277-54740