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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Higham
Summer term 2026
300065 UE Scientific Writing
300076 VO Special Paleoanthropology - Origins and dispersal of Homo sapiens
Winter term 2025
300445 PR Practical course in Radiocarbon Dating
Summer term 2025
300065 UE Scientific Writing
300076 VO Special Paleoanthropology - Origins and dispersal of Homo sapiens
Dehasque, M., Morales, H. E., Díez-del-Molino, D., Pečnerová, P., Chacón-Duque, J. C., Kanellidou, F., Muller, H., Plotnikov, V., Protopopov, A., Tikhonov, A., Nikolskiy, P., Van der Sluis, L., Danilov, G. K., Gianni, M., Van der Sluis, L., Higham, T., Heintzman, P. D., Oskolkov, N., Gilbert, M. T. P., ... Dalén, L. (2024). Temporal dynamics of woolly mammoth genome erosion prior to extinction. Cell, 187(14), 3531-3540.e13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.05.033
Saltre, F., Chadœuf, J., Higham, T., Ochocki, M., Block, S., Bunney, E., Llamas, B., & Bradshaw, C. J. A. (2024). Environmental conditions associated with initial northern expansion of anatomically modern humans. Nature Communications.
Lazaridis, I., Patterson, N., Anthony, D., Vyazov, L., Fournier, R., Ringbauer, H., Olalde, I., Khokhlov, A. A., Kitov, E. P., Shishlina, N. I., Ailincăi, S. C., Agapov, D. S., Agapov, S. A., Batieva, E., Bauyrzhan, B., Bereczki, Z., Buzhilova, A., Changmai, P., Chizhevsky, A. A., ... Reich, D. (2024). The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.17.589597
Abrams, G., Devièse, T., Pirson, S., De Groote, I., Flas, D., Jungels, C., Jadin, I., Cattelain, P., Bonjean, D., Mathys, A., Semal, P., Higham, T., & Di Modica, K. (2024). Investigating the co-occurrence of Neanderthals and modern humans in Belgium through direct radiocarbon dating of bone implements. Journal of Human Evolution, 186, Article 103471. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103471
Rybin, E. P., Belousova, N. E., Derevianko, A. P., Douka, K., & Higham, T. (2023). The Initial Upper Paleolithic of the Altai: New radiocarbon determinations for the Kara-Bom site. Journal of Human Evolution, 185, Article 103453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103453
Albarella, U., Higham, T., & McLean, A. (2023). An elusive ghost: Searching for the Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo) in the past of Britain. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 33(4), 598-607. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3190
Baquedano, E., Arsuaga, J. L., Pérez-González, A., Laplana, C., Márquez, B., Huguet, R., Gómez-Soler, S., Villaescusa, L., Galindo-Pellicena, M. Á., Rodríguez, L., García-González, R., Ortega, M. C., Martín-Perea, D. M., Ortega, A. I., Hernández-Vivanco, L., Ruiz-Liso, G., Gómez-Hernanz, J., Alonso-Martín, J. I., Abrunhosa, A., ... Higham, T. (2023). A symbolic Neanderthal accumulation of large herbivore crania. Nature Human Behaviour, 7(3), 342-352. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01503-7
Reade, H., Tripp, J. A., Frémondeau, D., Sayle, K. L., Higham, T. F. G., Street, M., & Stevens, R. E. (2023). Nitrogen palaeo-isoscapes: Changing spatial gradients of faunal δ15N in late Pleistocene and early Holocene Europe. PLoS ONE, 18(2 February), Article e0268607. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268607
Becerra-Valdivia, L., & Higham, T. (2023). New Developments in Radiocarbon Dating. In Handbook of Archaeological Sciences Volume 1 Second Edition Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119592112.ch2
Davis, L. G., Madsen, D. B., Sisson, D. A., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Higham, T., Stueber, D., Bean, D. W., Nyers, A. J., Carroll, A., Ryder, C., Sponheimer, M., Izuho, M., Iizuka, F., Li, G., Epps, C. W., & Halford, F. K. (2022). Dating of a large tool assemblage at the Cooper's Ferry site (Idaho, USA) to ~15,785 cal yr B.P. extends the age of stemmed points in the Americas. Science Advances, 8(51), Article eade1248. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ade1248
Charlton, S., Brace, S., Hajdinjak, M., Kearney, R., Booth, T., Reade, H., Tripp, J. A., Sayle, K. L., Grimm, S. B., Bello, S. M., Walker, E. A., Gilardet, A., East, P., Glocke, I., Larson, G., Higham, T., Stringer, C., Skoglund, P., Barnes, I., & Stevens, R. E. (2022). Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6(11), 1658-1668. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01883-z
Perez-Ramallo, P., Grandal-d'Anglade, A., Organista, E., Santos, E., Chivall, D., Rodriguez-Varela, R., Gotherstrom, A., Etxeberria, F., Ilgner, J., Fernandes, R., Arsuaga, J. L., Le Roux, P., Higham, T., Beaumont, J., Koon, H., & Roberts, P. (2022). Multi-isotopic study of the earliest mediaeval inhabitants of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 14(11), Article 214. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01678-0
Frouin, M., Douka, K., Dave, A. K., Schwenninger, J.-L., Mercier, N., Murray, A. S., Santaniello, F., Boschian, G., Grimaldi, S., & Higham, T. (2022). A refined chronology for the Middle and early Upper Paleolithic sequence of Riparo Mochi (Liguria, Italy). Journal of Human Evolution, 169, Article 103211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103211
Best, J., Doherty, S., Armit, I., Boev, Z., Buster, L., Cunliffe, B., Foster, A., Frimet, B., Hamilton-Dyer, S., Higham, T., Lebrasseur, O., Miller, H., Peters, J., Seigle, M., Skelton, C., Symmons, R., Thomas, R., Trentacoste, A., Maltby, M., ... Sykes, N. (2022). Redefining the timing and circumstances of the chicken's introduction to Europe and north-west Africa. Antiquity, 96(388), 868-882. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.90
Oliveira, S., Naegele, K., Carlhoff, S., Pugach, I., Koesbardiati, T., Hübner, A., Meyer, M., Oktaviana, A. A., Takenaka, M., Katagiri, C., Murti, D. B., Putri, R. S., Mahirta, Petchey, F., Higham, T., Higham, C. F. W., O'Connor, S., Hawkins, S., Kinaston, R., ... Stoneking, M. (2022). Ancient genomes from the last three millennia support multiple human dispersals into Wallacea. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6(7), 1024-1034. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01775-2
Bonneau, A., Pearce, D. G., Mitchell, P. J., Didier, L., Eoin, L. N., Higham, T. F. G., Lamothe, M., & Arthur, C. (2022). Characterization and dating of San rock art in the Metolong catchment, Lesotho: A preliminary investigation of technological and stylistic changes. Quaternary International, 611-612, 177-189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.03.014
Hopkins, R. J. A., Hajdinjak, M., Sefcakova, A., Comeskey, D., Deviese, T., & Higham, T. F. G. (2022). SINGLE AMINO ACID RADIOCARBON DATING OF TWO NEANDERTHALS FOUND AT ŠAL’A (SLOVAKIA). Radiocarbon, 64(1), 87-100. https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2021.113
Slimak, L., Zanolli, C., Higham, T., Frouin, M., Schwenninger, J.-L., Arnold, L. J., Demuro, M., Douka, K., Mercier, N., Guerin, G., Valladas, H., Yvorra, P., Giraud, Y., Seguin-Orlando, A., Orlando, L., Lewis, J. E., Muth, X., Camus, H., Vandevelde, S., ... Metz, L. (2022). Modern human incursion into Neanderthal territories 54,000 years ago at Mandrin, France. Science Advances, 8(6). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj9496, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj9496
Schulting, R. J., Mannermaa, K., Tarasov, P. E., Higham, T., Ramsey, C. B., Khartanovich, V., Moiseyev, V., Gerasimov, D., O'Shea, J., & Weber, A. (2022). Radiocarbon dating from Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov cemetery reveals complex human responses to socio-ecological stress during the 8.2 ka cooling event. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6(2), 155-162. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01628-4
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
Prehistory in a New Light
Rebay-Salisbury, K. (Speaker) & Higham, T. (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
