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

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Shcal04 Southern Hemisphere Calibration, 0–11.0 Cal Kyr BP

2004 851 citations Thomas Higham et al. Radiocarbon profile →
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 →
Improvements to the Pretreatment of Bone at Oxford

2004 439 citations Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Thomas Higham et al. Radiocarbon profile →
Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals

2010 427 citations Katerina Douka, Thomas Higham et al. profile →
Dating the late prehistoric dispersal of Polynesians to New Zealand using the commensal Pacific rat

2008 402 citations Thomas Higham et al. profile →
Genome flux and stasis in a five millennium transect of European prehistory

2014 389 citations Thomas Higham et al. profile →
82,000-year-old shell beads from North Africa and implications for the origins of modern human behavior

2007 357 citations Thomas Higham et al. profile →
AMS Radiocarbon Dating of Ancient Bone Using Ultrafiltration

2006 344 citations Thomas Higham, Christopher Bronk Ramsey et al. Radiocarbon profile →
Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa

2012 290 citations Thomas Higham et al. profile →
The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father

2018 239 citations Mateja Hajdinjak, Sarah Nagel et al. profile →
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 →
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 →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Re-examining the Chronological Framework and Human Occupation Pattern of the North Loess Plateau Using Bayesian Modelling 2025 ·Journal of World Prehistory ·(unknown), Thomas Higham, Jessica Rawson	1
2	Stratigraphy and geomorphology of Des‐Cubierta Cave (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid, Spain): Geological insights into a Neanderthal symbolic accumulation of large crania 2025 ·Journal of Quaternary Science ·David Martín‐Perea, Enrique Baquedano, Juan Luís Arsuaga, César Laplana, Ana Isabel Ortega Martínez, (unknown), Belén Márquez, Rosa Huguet, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Laura Rodríguez, Rebeca García‐González, (unknown), (unknown), Diego J. Álvarez‐Lao, (unknown), María Ángeles Galindo-Pellicena, Thomas Higham, Alfredo Pérez‐González	0
3	Revisiting the Early Aurignacian in Italy: New insights from Grotta della Cala 2025 ·Quaternary Science Reviews ·Armando Falcucci, Keiko Kitagawa, Luc Doyon, (unknown), Thomas Higham, (unknown), Diego Dreossi, Jacopo Crezzini, (unknown), Stefano Benazzi, Ivan Martini, Francesco Boschin, Vincenzo Spagnolo, Adriana Moroni	2
4	Dating of a large tool assemblage at the Cooper’s Ferry site (Idaho, USA) to ~15,785 cal yr B.P. extends the age of stemmed points in the Americas 2022 ·Science Advances ·Loren G. Davis, David B. Madsen, (unknown), Lorena Becerra‐Valdivia, Thomas Higham, (unknown), Daniel W. Bean, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Matt Sponheimer, Masami Izuho, (unknown), Guoqiang Li, Clinton W. Epps, (unknown)	15
5	The earliest Denisovans and their cultural adaptation 2021 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Samantha Brown, Diyendo Massilani, М.B. Kozlikin, M.V. Shunkov, А. П. Деревянко, Alexander Stoessel, (unknown), Matthias Meyer, Janet Kelso, Svante Pääbo, Thomas Higham, Katerina Douka	23
6	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 2021 ·Quaternary Science Reviews ·Rick Schulting, Christophe Snoeck, John Pouncett, Fiona Brock, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Thomas Higham, Thibaut Devièse, (unknown), Michael Pateman, William F. Keegan, (unknown)	15
7	Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians 2020 ·Science ·Diyendo Massilani, Laurits Skov, Mateja Hajdinjak, Б. Гунчинсурен, (unknown), Seonbok Yi, (unknown), Sarah Nagel, Birgit Nickel, Thibaut Devièse, Thomas Higham, Matthias Meyer, Janet Kelso, Benjamin M. Peter, Svante Pääbo	54
8	A prehistoric copper-production centre in central Thailand: its dating and wider implications 2020 ·Antiquity ·Thomas Higham, Andrew D. Weiss, Charles Higham, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, (unknown), Stephan Weber, (unknown), (unknown), Thomas Oliver Pryce, Vincent C. Pigott	22
9	Evolution and extinction of the giant rhinoceros Elasmotherium sibiricum sheds light on late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions 2018 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·П. А. Косинцев, Kieren J. Mitchell, Thibaut Devièse, J. van der Plicht, Margot Kuitems, Е.А. Петрова, Alexei Tikhonov, Thomas Higham, Daniel Comeskey, Chris Turney, Alan Cooper, Thijs van Kolfschoten, Anthony J. Stuart, Adrian M. Lister	51
10	The Kostënki 18 child burial and the cultural and funerary landscape of Mid Upper Palaeolithic European Russia 2017 ·Antiquity ·Natasha Reynolds, Rob Dinnis, Alexander Bessudnov, Thibaut Devièse, Thomas Higham	33
11	New protocol for compound‐specific radiocarbon analysis of archaeological bones 2017 ·Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry ·Thibaut Devièse, Daniel Comeskey, James McCullagh, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Thomas Higham	55
12	Le site aurignacien de l’abri de la Souquette (commune de Sergeac, Dordogne) : son histoire archéologique 2015 ·Palethnologie ·(unknown), Randall White, (unknown), Thomas Higham, (unknown)	2
13	Assessment of Infinite-Age Bones from the Upper Thames Valley, UK, as ¹⁴C Background Standards 2012 ·Radiocarbon ·Gordon Cook, Thomas Higham, Philip Naysmith, Fiona Brock, Stewart P.H.T. Freeman, Alex Bayliss	9
14	Radiocarbon dating & Bayesian modelling from the Grotte du Renne & a Neanderthal origin for the Châtelperronian 2012 ·Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida) ·Thomas Higham, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Laura Basell, Fiona Brock, Rachel Wood, William Davies	4
15	Chronology of the Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, France 2011 ·Thomas Higham, Fiona Brock, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, William Davies, Rachel Wood, Laura Basell	5
16	Chronology of the site of Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, France 2011 ·Thomas Higham, Fiona Brock, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, William Davies, Rachel Wood, Laura Basell	12
17	The re-dating of some Scottish specimens by the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU): results received during 2007 2007 ·(unknown), Thomas Higham	3
18	The re-dating of some Scottish specimens by the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU) 2006 ·(unknown), Thomas Higham	4
19	On the reliability of archaeological rat bone for radiocarbon dating in New Zealand 2000 ·Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand ·Thomas Higham, Fiona Petchey	22
20	A radiocarbon age determination for Mount Edgecumbe (Putauaki) volcano, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand 1997 ·New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics ·(unknown), J. A. Gamble, B. F. Houghton, T. Thórdarson, Thomas Higham	9

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