Detailed information
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Higham
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
Winter term 2024
300141 PR Practical course in Radiocarbon Dating
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
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
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
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
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
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