Detailed information
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Higham
Winter term 2024
300141 PR Practical course in Radiocarbon Dating
Summer term 2024
300076 VO Special Paleoanthropology - Origins and dispersal of Homo sapiens
Winter term 2023
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
Moncel, M.-H., Pleurdeau, D., Tushubramishvili, N., Yeshurun, R., Agapishvili, T., Pinhasi, R., & Higham, T. (2013). Preliminary results from the new excavations of the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic levels at Ortvale Klde-North Chamber (South Caucasus Georgia). Quaternary International, 316, 3-13. Article 316.
Moncel, M.-H., Pleurdeau, D., Pinhasi, R., Mgeladze, A., Yeshurun, R., Tushubramishvili, N., Agapishvili, T., Jennings, R., Higham, T., & Lordkipanidze, D. (2013). New insights into the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic In Georgia. In The Most Ancient Caucasus: a crossroad of Europe and Asia (pp. 51-78). Institute For The Material Culture History . St Petersburg, Russia.
Higham, T., & Wild, E. M. (2013). Radiocarbon Dating of the Pestera cu Oase Faunal Remains. In E. Trinkaus, S. Constantin, & J. Zilhao (Eds.), Life and Death at the Pestera cu Oase: A Setting for Modern Human Emergence in Europe (pp. 77-85). Oxford University Press. http://www.oupcanada.com/catalog/9780195398229.html
Pinhasi, R., Nioradze, M., Tushabramishvili, N., Lordkipanidze, D., Pleurdeau, D., Moncel, M.-H., Adler, D. S., Stringer, C. A., & Higham, T. (2012). New chronology for the Middle Palaeolithic of the Southern Caucasus suggests early demise of Neanderthals in this region. Journal of Human Evolution, 63, 770-780. Article 63.
Pinhasi, R., Higham, T. F. G., Golovanova, L. V., & Doronichev, V. B. (2011). Revised age of late Neanderthal occupation and the end of the Middle Paleolithic in the northern Caucasus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 108(21), 8611-8616. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1018938108
Pinhasi, R., Gasparian, B., Areshian, G., Zardaryan, D., Smith, A., Bar-Oz, G., & Higham, T. (2010). First direct evidence of chalcolithic footwear from the near eastern highlands. PLoS ONE, 5(6), Article e10984. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010984
Ramsey, C. B., Dee, M. W., Rowland, J. M., Higham, T., Harris, S. A., Brock, F., Quiles, A., Wild, E. M., Marcus, E. S., & Shortland, A. J. (2010). Radiocarbon-Based Chronology for Dynastic Egypt. Science, 328(5985), 1554-1557. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1189395
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