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Pigott, E. M., Cheshmedzhieva, K., Zeller, E., van der Sluis, L. G., Chowdhury, M. P., Gianni, M., Végh, E., Uthmeier, T., Chabai, V., Patou-Mathis, M., Šimková, P. G., Voglmayr, J. N., Weber, G. W., Pinhasi, R., Timmermann, A., Kuhlwilm, M., Douka, K., & Higham, T. (2025). A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(45), e2518974122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2518974122

Falcucci, A., Kitagawa, K., Doyon, L., Tassoni, L., Higham, T., Dominici, C., Dreossi, D., Crezzini, J., Rossini, M., Benazzi, S., Martini, I., Boschin, F., Spagnolo, V., & Moroni, A. (2025). Revisiting the Early Aurignacian in Italy: New insights from Grotta della Cala. Quaternary Science Reviews, 366, Article 109471. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109471

Stevens, R. E., Reade, H., Pryor, A. J. E., Sayle, K. L., Tripp, J. A., Neruda, P., Nerudová, Z., Roblíčková, M., Higham, T., & Svoboda, J. (2025). Cold and arid climates experienced by Central European hunter-gatherers at Stránská skála IV during the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary International, 741, Article 109893. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109893

Blain, H. A., Laplana, C., Sánchez-Bandera, C., Mielgo, C., Blanco-Lapaz, Á., Marquina-Blasco, R., Fagoaga, A., Bisbal-Chinesta, J. F., Martín-Perea, D. M., Falguères, C., Higham, T., Ruiz Zapata, M. B., Gil García, M. J., Sevilla, P., Huguet, R., Márquez, B., Pérez-González, A., Arsuaga, J. L., & Baquedano, E. (2025). New paleoecological insights for the Late Pleistocene Neanderthal mountain occurrence at Buena Pinta Cave (Iberian Central System, Pinilla-del-Valle, Madrid, Spain). Quaternary Science Reviews, 362, Article 109355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109355

Dinnis, R., Boulton, J., Chandler, B., Davies, J., French, J. C., Higham, T., Jáuregui, L., Lewis, M., Meyer, M., Schreve, D., Stringer, C., & Proctor, C. (2025). A Middle and Late Devensian sequence from the northern part of Kents Cavern (Devon, UK). Journal of Quaternary Science. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3705

Oertle, A., Crezzini, J., Moroni, A., Ronchitelli, A., Benazzi, S., Falcucci, A., Marciani, G., Rossini, M., Martini, I., Arrighi, S., Higham, T., Boschin, F., & Douka, K. (2025). New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy. Scientific Reports, 15(1), Article 25906. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-11355-6

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

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. (2025). The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans. Nature, 639(8053), 132-142. Article 8912. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08531-5

Wilkinson, K. N., Allué, E., Armitage, S. J., van Arsdale, A., Bar-Oz, G., Brittingham, A., Gasparyan, B., Gill, J., Glauberman, P., Higham, T. G., Frahm, E., Kovach, T., Lukich, V., Mallol, C., Raczynski-Henk, Y., Rodríguez, I. R., Sherriff, J. E., Srivastava, A., Weissbrod, L., ... Adler, D. S. (2025). The geoarchaeology, chronology and environment of Lusakert-1, a Late Middle Palaeolithic rockshelter (Kotayk Province, Armenia). Quaternary Environments and Humans, 3(1), Article 100054. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qeh.2024.100054

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. Article 943. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-83870-x

Stevens, R. E., Reade, H., Sayle, K. L., Tripp, J. A., Frémondeau, D., Lister, A., Barnes, I., Germonpré, M., Street, M., Murton, J. B., Bottrell, S. H., James, D. H., & Higham, T. F. G. (2025). Major excursions in sulfur isotopes linked to permafrost change in Eurasia during the last 50,000 years. Nature Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01760-x

Tung Fung, Y., Higham, T., & Rawson, J. (2025). . Re-examining the Chronological Framework and Human Occupation Pattern of the North Loess Plateau Using Bayesian Modelling. Journal of World Prehistory, 38(9), Article 38.

Chiotti, L., Tartar, E., Mensan, R., Michel, A., Soulier, M. C., Clark, A., Ranlett, S., Higham, T., Hamard, A., & White, R. (2025). Sous-le-Roc (Saint-Léon-Sur-Vézère, Dordogne): un gisement aurignacien en vallée de la Vézère. Bilan des données anciennes et récentes (sondages 2016). PALEO Revue d'archéologie préhistorique, 72-115.

Martín-Perea, D. M., Baquedano, E., Arsuaga, J. L., Laplana, C., Ortega, A. I., Villaescusa, L., Márquez, B., Huguet, R., Moclán, A., Soler, S. G., Arroyo, X., Rodríguez, L., García-González, R., Cruz Ortega, M., Masa-Andrés, J., Álvarez-Lao, D. J., García, N., Ángeles Galindo-Pellicena, M., Higham, T., & Pérez-González, A. (2025). Stratigraphy and geomorphology of Des-Cubierta Cave (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid, Spain): Geological insights into a Neanderthal symbolic accumulation of large crania. Journal of Quaternary Science. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3722

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

Moreno-Mayar, J. V., Sousa da Mota, B., Higham, T., Klemm, S., Gorman Edmunds, M., Stenderup, J., Iraeta-Orbegozo, M., Laborde, V., Heyer, E., Torres Hochstetter, F., Friess, M., Allentoft, M. E., Schroeder, H., Delaneau, O., & Malaspinas, A. S. (2024). Ancient Rapanui genomes reveal resilience and pre-European contact with the Americas. Nature, 633(8029), 389-397. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07881-4

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

Pérez-Ramallo, P., Rodríguez-Varela, R., Staniewska, A., Ilgner, J., Krzewińska, M., Chivall, D., Higham, T., Götherström, A., & Roberts, P. (2024). Unveiling Bishop Teodomiro of Iria Flavia? An attempt to identify the discoverer of St James's tomb through osteological and biomolecular analyses (Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain). Antiquity, 98(400), 973-990. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.91