Detailed information
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Higham
Summer term 2025
300065 UE Scientific Writing
300076 VO Special Paleoanthropology - Origins and dispersal of Homo sapiens
Winter term 2024
300141 PR Practical course in Radiocarbon Dating
Gennai, J., Higham, T., Romboni, M., Fiorillo, A., Giannì, M., Sluis, L. V. D., Marchi, D., & Starnini, E. (2025). Buca della Iena and Grotta del Capriolo: New chronological, lithic, and faunal analyses of two late Mousterian sites in Central Italy. PLoS ONE, 20(6), Article e0315876. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0315876
Weber, G. W., Šimková, P. G., Fernandes, D. M., Cheronet, O., Úry, E., Wilfing, H., Matiasek, K., Llano-Lizcano, A., Gelabert, P., Trinks, I., Douka, K., Ladstätter, S., Higham, T., Steskal, M., & Pinhasi, R. (2025). The cranium from the Octagon in Ephesos. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 943. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-83870-x
Pigott, E., Uthmeier, T., Chabai, V., & Higham, T. (2024). The Late Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic in Crimea (Ukraine)—A Review of the Neanderthal Refugium Hypothesis. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 7, Article 27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-024-00194-y
Higham, T., Frouin, M., Douka, A., Ronchitelli, A., Boscato, P., Benazzi, S., Crezzini, J., Spagnolo, V., McCarty, M., Marciani, G., Falcucci, A., Rossini, M., Arrighi, S., Dominici, C., Deviese, T., Schwenninger, J.-L., Martini, I., Moroni, A., & Boschin, F. (2024). Chronometric data and stratigraphic evidence support discontinuity between Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens in the Italian Peninsula. Nature Communications, 15(1), Article 8016. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51546-9
Higham, T. (2024). Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before their extinction. Cell Genomics, Article 100593.
Gaffney, D., Tanudirjo, D., Djami, E. N. I., Mas’ud, Z., Macap, A. R., Russell, T., Dailom, M., Ray, Y., Higham, T., & Oertle, A. (2024). Human dispersal and plant processing in the Pacific 55 000–50 000 years ago. Antiquity, 98(400), 885-904. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.83
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
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
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
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