Thomas Higham

35.3k total citations · 12 hit papers
318 papers, 16.9k citations indexed

About

Thomas Higham is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Higham has authored 318 papers receiving a total of 16.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 245 papers in Paleontology, 173 papers in Anthropology and 155 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Higham's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (234 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (164 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (97 papers). Thomas Higham is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (234 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (164 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (97 papers). Thomas Higham collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Thomas Higham's co-authors include Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Fiona Brock, Roger Jacobi, Alan Hogg, Katerina Douka, Rachel Wood, R.E.M. Hedges, Peter Ditchfıeld, F. G. McCormac and Paula Reimer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Higham

310 papers receiving 15.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Shcal04 Southern Hemisphere Calibration, 0–11.0 Cal Kyr BP
    2004 851 citations Thomas Higham et al. Radiocarbon profile →
  2. Current Pretreatment Methods for AMS Radiocarbon Dating at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (Orau)
    2010 693 citations Fiona Brock, Thomas Higham et al. Radiocarbon profile →
  3. Improvements to the Pretreatment of Bone at Oxford
    2004 439 citations Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Thomas Higham et al. Radiocarbon profile →
  4. Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals
    2010 427 citations Katerina Douka, Thomas Higham et al. profile →
  5. Dating the late prehistoric dispersal of Polynesians to New Zealand using the commensal Pacific rat
    2008 402 citations Atholl Anderson, Thomas Higham et al. profile →
  6. Genome flux and stasis in a five millennium transect of European prehistory
    2014 389 citations Thomas Higham et al. profile →
  7. 82,000-year-old shell beads from North Africa and implications for the origins of modern human behavior
    2007 357 citations Thomas Higham, Jean‐Luc Schwenninger et al. profile →
  8. AMS Radiocarbon Dating of Ancient Bone Using Ultrafiltration
    2006 344 citations Thomas Higham, Roger Jacobi et al. Radiocarbon profile →
  9. Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa
    2012 290 citations Thomas Higham et al. profile →
  10. The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father
    2018 239 citations Mateja Hajdinjak, Sarah Nagel et al. profile →
  11. Identification of a new hominin bone from Denisova Cave, Siberia using collagen fingerprinting and mitochondrial DNA analysis
    2016 111 citations Samantha Brown, Thomas Higham et al. profile →
  12. Direct dating of Neanderthal remains from the site of Vindija Cave and implications for the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition
    2017 86 citations Thibaut Devièse, Daniel Comeskey et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Thomas Higham 10.4k 8.7k 6.1k 4.3k 3.0k 318 16.9k
Julia A. Lee‐Thorp 7.7k 0.7× 5.8k 0.7× 3.1k 0.5× 3.8k 0.9× 5.3k 1.7× 177 13.3k
R.E.M. Hedges 11.6k 1.1× 5.6k 0.6× 6.8k 1.1× 2.0k 0.5× 6.7k 2.2× 283 17.4k
Rainer Grün 6.1k 0.6× 6.4k 0.7× 3.8k 0.6× 3.4k 0.8× 1.8k 0.6× 259 11.0k
Christopher Bronk Ramsey 16.6k 1.6× 11.0k 1.3× 8.1k 1.3× 15.3k 3.6× 5.5k 1.8× 331 31.4k
Dorian Q. Fuller 5.7k 0.5× 3.7k 0.4× 1.7k 0.3× 2.7k 0.6× 1.8k 0.6× 232 15.5k
Ofer Bar‐Yosef 7.7k 0.7× 7.5k 0.9× 5.1k 0.8× 1.8k 0.4× 984 0.3× 182 11.4k
Michael D. Petraglia 4.5k 0.4× 5.3k 0.6× 3.4k 0.6× 2.1k 0.5× 793 0.3× 235 8.0k
Stanley H. Ambrose 6.8k 0.7× 4.6k 0.5× 2.8k 0.5× 1.2k 0.3× 4.6k 1.5× 109 10.3k
Michael P. Richards 10.7k 1.0× 5.5k 0.6× 5.5k 0.9× 1.1k 0.3× 6.4k 2.1× 352 15.2k
Thure E. Cerling 12.6k 1.2× 7.5k 0.9× 2.2k 0.4× 9.9k 2.3× 11.9k 3.9× 262 26.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Higham, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Re-examining the Chronological Framework and Human Occupation Pattern of the North Loess Plateau Using Bayesian Modelling. Journal of World Prehistory. 38(2). 1 indexed citations
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Martín‐Perea, David, Enrique Baquedano, Juan Luís Arsuaga, et al.. (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. 40(6). 958–976.
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Schulting, Rick, Christophe Snoeck, John Pouncett, et al.. (2021). 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. Quaternary Science Reviews. 254. 106780–106780. 15 indexed citations
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Spindler, Luke, et al.. (2021). Dating the last Middle Palaeolithic of the Crimean Peninsula: New hydroxyproline AMS dates from the site of Kabazi II. Journal of Human Evolution. 156. 102996–102996. 10 indexed citations
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Massilani, Diyendo, Laurits Skov, Mateja Hajdinjak, et al.. (2020). Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians. Science. 370(6516). 579–583. 54 indexed citations
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Fedorchenko, А.Yu., et al.. (2020). The Early Upper Palaeolithic bone industry of the Central Altai, Russia: new evidence from the Kara-Bom site. Antiquity. 94(377). 12 indexed citations
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Anderson, Atholl, Geoffrey Clark, Simon Haberle, et al.. (2018). New evidence of megafaunal bone damage indicates late colonization of Madagascar. PLoS ONE. 13(10). e0204368–e0204368. 48 indexed citations
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Reynolds, Natasha, Rob Dinnis, Alexander Bessudnov, Thibaut Devièse, & Thomas Higham. (2017). The Kostënki 18 child burial and the cultural and funerary landscape of Mid Upper Palaeolithic European Russia. Antiquity. 91(360). 1435–1450. 33 indexed citations
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O’Hara, John F., et al.. (2015). The Aurignacian Site of the Abri de la Souquette (commune de Sergeac, Dordogne): A History of Archeology. Palethnologie. 7. 2 indexed citations
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Higham, Thomas, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Laura Basell, et al.. (2012). Radiocarbon dating & Bayesian modelling from the Grotte du Renne & a Neanderthal origin for the Châtelperronian. Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida). 2012(3). 1–6. 4 indexed citations
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Cook, Gordon, Thomas Higham, Philip Naysmith, et al.. (2012). Assessment of Infinite-Age Bones from the Upper Thames Valley, UK, as 14C Background Standards. Radiocarbon. 54(3-4). 845–853. 9 indexed citations
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Mensan, Romain, Raphaëlle Bourrillon, Randall White, et al.. (2012). Context and dating of newly discovered Aurignacian rock art from Abri Castanet (Dordogne, France). Paléo. 23. 171–188. 2 indexed citations
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Higham, Thomas, Fiona Brock, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, et al.. (2011). Chronology of the site of Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, France. 2011(2). 1–9. 12 indexed citations
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Higham, Thomas, Fiona Brock, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, et al.. (2011). Chronology of the Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, France. 2011(3). 1–5. 5 indexed citations
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Higham, Thomas, et al.. (2010). New dates for the Grotte du Renne at Arcy-sur-Cure and their implications for the evolution of symbolic behaviour.. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 97 indexed citations
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Higham, Thomas, et al.. (2007). The re-dating of some Scottish specimens by the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU): results received during 2007. 3 indexed citations
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Higham, Thomas, et al.. (2006). The re-dating of some Scottish specimens by the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU). 4 indexed citations
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Higham, Thomas & Fiona Petchey. (2000). On the reliability of archaeological rat bone for radiocarbon dating in New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 30(4). 399–409. 22 indexed citations
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Gamble, J. A., et al.. (1997). A radiocarbon age determination for Mount Edgecumbe (Putauaki) volcano, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 40(4). 559–562. 9 indexed citations

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