Thomas Higham

1966 -

country of citizenship: New Zealand

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: University of Waikato, University of Otago

occupation: archaeologist, university teacher

award received: Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi

Thomas Higham is an archaeological scientist and radiocarbon dating specialist. He has worked as Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Oxford, UK, where he was the Director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU) in the Research Lab for Archaeology and the History of Art. He is best known for his work in dating the Neanderthal extinction and the arrival of modern humans in Europe. He is Professor in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Vienna. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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2021-10-23

Response to “Current Understanding of the Earliest Human Occupations in the Americas: Evaluation of Becerra-Valdivia and Higham (2020)”

Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Thomas Higham
2021-02

Six centuries of adaptation to a challenging island environment: AMS 14C dating and stable isotopic analysis of pre-Columbian human remains from the Bahamian archipelago reveal dietary trends

Michael P Pateman, John Pouncett, Christophe Snoeck, Thibaut Devièse, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Joanna Ostapkowicz, Rick Schulting, Thomas Higham
2021-11-25

The earliest Denisovans and their cultural adaptation

Samantha Brown, Diyendo Massilani, Maxim B Kozlikin, Michael Shunkov, Janet Kelso, Svante Pääbo, Katerina Douka, Matthias Meyer, Thomas Higham
2021-06-21

Reply to Van Peer: Direct radiocarbon dating and ancient genomic analysis reveal the true age of the Neanderthals at Spy Cave

Thibaut Devièse, Grégory Abrams, Isabelle De Groote, Valentin Fischer, Thomas Higham, Stéphane Pirson, Dan Comeskey, Patrick Semal
2021-07-29

Zooarchaeology through the lens of collagen fingerprinting at Denisova Cave

Virginia L Harvey, Thomas Higham, Katerina Douka
2021-09-15

Examining collagen preservation through glutamine deamidation at Denisova Cave

Samantha Brown, Thomas Higham, Katerina Douka
2021-04-21

THE TEMPO OF CULTURAL CHANGE IN THE KOSTENKI UPPER PALEOLITHIC: FURTHER INSIGHTS

Thomas Higham, Katerina Douka
2021-03

Eastern Europe’s “Transitional Industry”?: Deconstructing the Early Streletskian

Thomas Higham
2020-01

Challenges in sample processing within radiocarbon dating and their impact in 14C-dates-as-data studies

Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Rachel E. Wood, Thomas Higham
2020-05-25

Two Probable Cases of Infection with Treponema pallidum during the Neolithic Period in Northern Vietnam (ca. 2000–1500 B.C.)

Melandri Vlok, Thomas Higham, Hallie Buckley
2020-03-09

A refined chronology for the Gravettian sequence of Abri Pataud

Katerina Douka, Thomas Higham
2020-03-13

Radiocarbon chronology and environmental context of Last Glacial Maximum human occupation in Switzerland

Jennifer Tripp, Thomas Higham, Rhiannon E. Stevens
2020-04-01

Response to Comment on "Late Upper Paleolithic occupation at Cooper's Ferry, Idaho, USA, ~16,000 years ago"

Loren Davis, Thomas Higham, Lorena Becerra-Valdivia
2020-07-22

Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum

Ciprian F. Ardelean, Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Eske Willerslev, Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Thomas Higham, Devlin Gandy, Mikkel W. Pedersen, Yam Zul Ernesto Ocampo-Díaz
2020-07-22

The timing and effect of the earliest human arrivals in North America

Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Thomas Higham
2020-09-01

A late Neanderthal tooth from northeastern Italy

Thomas Higham, Luca Bondioli, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Matthias Meyer
2020-10-01

Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians

Diyendo Massilani, Laurits Skov, Mateja Hajdinjak, Byambaa Gunchinsuren, Seonbok Yi, Jungeun Lee, Thibaut Devièse, Thomas Higham, Matthias Meyer, Janet Kelso, Benjamin M. Peter, Svante Pääbo, Birgit Nickel, Sarah Nagel, Damdinsuren Tseveendorj
2020-12-17

Magdalenian and Epimagdalenian chronology and palaeoenvironments at Kůlna Cave, Moravia, Czech Republic

Hazel Reade, Jennifer Tripp, Samantha Brown, Katerina Douka, Thomas Higham, Rhiannon E. Stevens
2020-07

Deglacial landscapes and the Late Upper Palaeolithic of Switzerland

Jennifer Tripp, Rhiannon E. Stevens, Thomas Higham
2019-02-18

The wet and the dry, the wild and the cultivated: subsistence and risk management in ancient Central Thailand

Jade D'Alpoim Guedes, Thomas Higham
2019-02-15

FINDER project: collagen fingerprinting (ZooMS) for the identification of new human fossils

Svante Pääbo, Thomas Higham, Katerina Douka
2019-01-30

Age estimates for hominin fossils and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic at Denisova Cave

Zenobia Jacobs, Thibaut Devièse, Samantha Brown, Thomas Higham, Katerina Douka, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Svante Pääbo, Matthias Meyer, Janet Kelso, Anatoly Derevyanko, Bence Viola, Daniel Comeskey, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Maxim B Kozlikin
2019-01-30

Compound-specific radiocarbon dating and mitochondrial DNA analysis of the Pleistocene hominin from Salkhit Mongolia

Thibaut Devièse, Diyendo Massilani, Seonbok Yi, Erika Ribechini, Jungeun Lee, Thomas Higham, Svante Pääbo, Matthias Meyer, Birgit Nickel, Sarah Nagel, Daniel Comeskey, Damdinsuren Tseveendorj
2019-02-04

Ancient human genome-wide data from a 3000-year interval in the Caucasus corresponds with eco-geographic regions

Chuan-Chao Wang, Olivia Cheronet, Eadaoin Harney, Sandra L. Pichler, Natalia Berezina, Katharina Fuchs, Stephan Schiffels, Thomas Higham, Viktor Trifonov, Ron Pinhasi, Johannes Krause, Wolfgang Haak, David Reich, Nadin Rohland, Kristin Stewardson, Kurt W. Alt, Swapan Mallick, Svend Hansen, Matthew Ferry, Denise Keating, Harald Meller, Choongwon Jeong, Alexey Kalmykov, Antje Wissgott, Guido Brandt, Anatoly R. Kantorovich, Vladimira G. Petrenko, Biaslan C. Atabiev, Claudia Gerling, Benik Vardanyan, Larisa Yeganyan, Alexey D. Rezepkin, Dirk Mariaschk, Julia Gresky, Corina Knipper, Alexandra Buzhilova, Oleg Balanovsky
2019-04-16

Genetic turnovers and northern survival during the last glacial maximum in European brown bears.

Erik Ersmark, Jan Storå, Love Dalén, Kerstin Lidén, Mietje Germonpré, Thomas Higham, John R. Stewart, Adrian Marciszak, Doris Döppes
2019-10-01

Assessing the efficiency of supercritical fluid extraction for the decontamination of archaeological bones prior to radiocarbon dating

Thibaut Devièse, Erika Ribechini, Thomas Higham, Diletta Querci
2019-08-08

The Gravettian child mandible from El Castillo Cave (Puente Viesgo, Cantabria, Spain)

María-Dolores Garralda, José-Manuel Maíllo-Fernández, Thomas Higham
2019-08-01

Late Upper Paleolithic occupation at Cooper's Ferry, Idaho, USA, ~16,000 years ago

Loren Davis, Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Thomas Higham, David A Sisson, Sarah M Skinner, Alexander J Nyers, Amanda Keen-Zebert, Christina M Neudorf, Melissa Cheyney, Masami Izuho, Fumie Iizuka, Samuel R Burns, Clinton W. Epps, Samuel C Willis, Ian Buvit
2018-09-21

High-Resolution AMS Dating of Architecture, Boulder Artworks and the Transition to Farming at Lepenski Vir

Thomas Higham, Olaf Nehlich, Michael Buckley
2018-03-01

New protocol for compound-specific radiocarbon analysis of archaeological bones

Thibaut Devièse, James S. McCullagh, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Thomas Higham, Daniel Comeskey
2018-02-02

The Viking Great Army in England: new dates from the Repton charnel

Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Martin Biddle, Catrine Jarman, Thomas Higham
2018-02-20

Origins and genetic legacies of the Caribbean Taino.

Martin Sikora, Rasmus Nielsen, Daniel G. Bradley, Hannes Schroeder, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Pierpaolo Maisano Delser, Marcela Sandoval-Velasco, Joshua G Schraiber, Simon Rasmussen, Morten Allentoft, J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar, Alberto Gómez-Carballa, Jason E Laffoon, Antonio Salas, Eske Willerslev, Thomas Higham

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