Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Higham

McGrath, K, Montes, TAKDS, Fossile, T, da Rocha Bandeira, D, Borba, FM, Cremer, MJ, van der Sluis, LG, Higham, T, Klahold Rosa, AP, Saña, M & Colonese, AC 2026, 'Molecular and zooarchaeological identification of 5000 year old whale-bone harpoons in coastal Brazil', Nature Communications, vol. 17, no. 1, 48. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-67530-w

Massilani, D, Peyrégne, S, Iasi, LNM, de Filippo, C, Mafessoni, F, Bossoms Mesa, A, Sümer, AP, Swiel, Y, Popli, D, Silverman, S, Boyle, MJ, Kozlikin, MB, Shunkov, MV, Derevianko, AP, Higham, T, Douka, K, Meyer, M, Zeberg, H, Kelso, J & Pääbo, S 2026, 'A high-coverage Neandertal genome from the Altai Mountains reveals population structure among Neandertals', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 123, no. 13, e2534576123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2534576123

Marsh, WA, Scarsbrook, L, Yüncü, E, Hodgson, L, Lin, AT, De Iorio, M, Thalmann, O, Thomas, MG, Goor, M, Bergström, A, Noseda, A, Amiri, S, Biglari, F, Borić, D, Bougiouri, K, Carmagnini, A, Giannì, M, Higham, T, Lebrasseur, O, Linderholm, A, Mannino, MA, Middleton, C, Mustafaoğlu, G, Perri, A, Peters, J, Richards, M, Sarıtaş, Ö, Skoglund, P, Stevens, RE, Stringer, C, Tabbada, K, Talbot, HM, Van der Sluis, LG, Bello, SM, Dimitrijevic, V, Martin, L, Mashkour, M, Parfitt, SA, Vukovic, S, Brace, S, Craig, OE, Baird, D, Charlton, S, Larson, G, Barnes, I & Frantz, LAF 2026, 'Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic', Nature, vol. 651, no. 8107, pp. 995-1003. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10170-x

Pigott, EM, Cheshmedzhieva, K, Zeller, E, van der Sluis, LG, Chowdhury, MP, Gianni, M, Végh, E, Uthmeier, T, Chabai, V, Patou-Mathis, M, Šimková, PG, Voglmayr, JN, Weber, GW, 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, vol. 122, no. 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, vol. 366, 109471. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109471

Stevens, RE, Reade, H, Sayle, KL, Tripp, JA, Frémondeau, D, Lister, A, Barnes, I, Germonpré, M, Street, M, Murton, JB, Bottrell, SH, James, DH & Higham, TFG 2025, 'Major excursions in sulfur isotopes linked to permafrost change in Eurasia during the last 50,000 years', Nature Geoscience, vol. 18, no. 10, pp. 961-965. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01760-x, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01760-x

Stevens, RE, Reade, H, Pryor, AJE, Sayle, KL, Tripp, JA, 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, vol. 741, 109893. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109893

Blain, HA, Laplana, C, Sánchez-Bandera, C, Mielgo, C, Blanco-Lapaz, Á, Marquina-Blasco, R, Fagoaga, A, Bisbal-Chinesta, JF, Martín-Perea, DM, Falguères, C, Higham, T, Ruiz Zapata, MB, Gil García, MJ, Sevilla, P, Huguet, R, Márquez, B, Pérez-González, A, Arsuaga, JL & 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, vol. 362, 109355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109355

Dinnis, R, Boulton, J, Chandler, B, Davies, J, French, JC, 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, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 925-943. 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, vol. 15, no. 1, 25906. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-11355-6

Gennai, J, Higham, T, Romboni, M, Fiorillo, A, Giannì, M, Sluis, LVD, 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, vol. 20, no. 6, e0315876. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0315876

Lazaridis, I, Patterson, N, Anthony, D, Vyazov, L, Fournier, R, Ringbauer, H, Olalde, I, Khokhlov, AA, Kitov, EP, Shishlina, NI, Ailincăi, SC, Agapov, DS, Agapov, SA, Batieva, E, Bauyrzhan, B, Bereczki, Z, Buzhilova, A, Changmai, P, Chizhevsky, AA, Ciobanu, I, Constantinescu, M, Csányi, M, Dani, J, Dashkovskiy, PK, Évinger, S, Faifert, A, Flegontov, P, Frînculeasa, A, Frînculeasa, MN, Hajdu, T, Higham, T, Jarosz, P, Jelínek, P, Khartanovich, VI, Kirginekov, EN, Kiss, V, Kitova, A, Kiyashko, AV, Koledin, J, Korolev, A, Kosintsev, P, Kulcsár, G, Kuznetsov, P, Magomedov, R, Mamedov, AM, Melis, E, Moiseyev, V, Molnár, E, Monge, J, Negrea, O, Nikolaeva, NA, Novak, M, Ochir-Goryaeva, M, Pálfi, G, Popovici, S, Rykun, MP, Savenkova, TM, Semibratov, VP, Seregin, NN, Šefčáková, A, Mussayeva, RS, Shingiray, I, Shirokov, VN, Simalcsik, A, Sirak, K, Solodovnikov, KN, Tárnoki, J, Tishkin, AA, Trifonov, V, Vasilyev, S, Akbari, A, Brielle, ES, Callan, K, Candilio, F, Cheronet, O, Curtis, E, Flegontova, O, Iliev, L, Kearns, A, Keating, D, Lawson, AM, Mah, M, Micco, A, Michel, M, Oppenheimer, J, Qiu, L, Workman, JN, Zalzala, F, Szécsényi-Nagy, A, Palamara, PF, Mallick, S, Rohland, N, Pinhasi, R & Reich, D 2025, 'The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans', Nature, vol. 639, no. 8053, 8912, pp. 132-142. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08531-5

Wilkinson, KN, Allué, E, Armitage, SJ, van Arsdale, A, Bar-Oz, G, Brittingham, A, Gasparyan, B, Gill, J, Glauberman, P, Higham, TG, Frahm, E, Kovach, T, Lukich, V, Mallol, C, Raczynski-Henk, Y, Rodríguez, IR, Sherriff, JE, Srivastava, A, Weissbrod, L, Yeshurun, R & Adler, DS 2025, 'The geoarchaeology, chronology and environment of Lusakert-1, a Late Middle Palaeolithic rockshelter (Kotayk Province, Armenia)', Quaternary Environments and Humans, vol. 3, no. 1, 100054. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qeh.2024.100054

Weber, GW, Šimková, PG, Fernandes, DM, 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, vol. 15, no. 1, 943. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-83870-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, vol. 38, no. 9, 38.

Chiotti, L, Tartar, E, Mensan, R, Michel, A, Soulier, MC, 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, pp. 72-115.

Martín-Perea, DM, Baquedano, E, Arsuaga, JL, Laplana, C, Ortega, AI, Villaescusa, L, Márquez, B, Huguet, R, Moclán, A, Soler, SG, Arroyo, X, Rodríguez, L, García-González, R, Cruz Ortega, M, Masa-Andrés, J, Álvarez-Lao, DJ, 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, vol. 7, 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, vol. 15, no. 1, 8016. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51546-9