ANTH 104 Human Evolution and World Prehistory
ANTH 203 The Archaeology of East and Southeast Asia
My principal current project, “The Origins of Angkor”, examines the prehistoric cultural sequence in Northeast Thailand in order to illuminate the nature of the prehistoric communities there and model state formation. This is based on excavations at the sites of Ban Lum Khao, Noen U-Loke, Non Muang Kao and Ban Non Wat.
I am also a member of a research project in collaboration with the University of Durham to identify through isotopes in human teeth, the origins of individuals whose burials have been excavated at the above sites, and with the University of Sydney, the origins of Iron Age individuals in Cambodian Iron Age sites.
Higham, C.F.W. and Kijngam, A. (eds) 1984. Prehistoric Excavations in Northeast Thailand: Excavations at Ban Na Di, Ban Chiang Hian, Ban Muang Phruk, Ban Sangui, Non Noi and Ban Kho Noi, British Archaeological Reports, International Series 231(i-iii), Oxford.
Higham, C.F.W. 1989 The Archaeology of Mainland Southeast Asia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Higham, C.F.W. and Bannanurag, R. 1990. The Excavation of Khok Phanom Di: Volume I, The Excavation, Chronology and Human Burials, The Society of Antiquaries of London and Thames and Hudson, London.
Higham, C.F.W. and Bannanurag, R (eds), 1991. The Excavation of Khok Phanom Di: Volume II: The Biological Remains Part 1, The Society of Antiquaries of London and Thames and Hudson, London.
Higham, C.F.W. and Thosorat, R. (eds) 1993. Khok Phanom Di: Volume III: The Material Culture Part 1, The Society of Antiquaries of London.
Higham, C.F.W. and Thosorat, R. 1994. Khok Phanom Di: Prehistoric Adaptation to the World's Richest Habitat, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Fort Worth.
Higham, C.F.W. 1996. The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Higham, C.F.W. and R. Thosarat, (eds) 1998. The Excavation of Nong Nor, a Prehistoric Site in Central Thailand. Oxbow Books, Oxford and University of Otago Studies in Prehistoric Anthropology no. 18.
Higham, C.F.W. 2001 The Civilization of Angkor. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London.
Translated into French, German, Hungarian and Korean editions
Higham, C.F.W. 2002. Early Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia. River Books, Bangkok.
Higham C.F.W. 2004. Encyclopaedia of Early Asian Civilizations. Facts on File, New York.
Higham, C.F.W. and Thosarat, R. 2004. The Excavation of Khok Phanom Di: Volume VII. Summary and Conclusions. London: The Society of Antiquaries of London. 182 pages
Higham, C.F.W. and Thosarat, R., (eds) 2005. The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor. Volume 1. The Excavation of Ban Lum Khao. Bangkok, The Fine Arts Department of Thailand.
Higham, C.F.W. Kijngam, A. and Talbot, S. (eds) 2007. The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor. Volume II. The Excavation Noen U-Loke and Non Muang Kao. Bangkok, The Fine Arts Department of Thailand.
Higham, C.F.W. 2001. Eurasia east of the Urals. In Cunliffe, B.W. and Renfrew, A.C., editors. Archaeology: the Widening Debate. 335-62. The British Academy, London.
Higham, C.F.W. 2002. Languages and farming dispersals: Austroasiatic languages and rice cultivation, in Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis, eds. P. Bellwood & C. Renfrew. Cambridge, McDonald Institute, 223-32.
Higham, C.F.W. 2003. Reflections on thirty-three years of archaeological research in Thailand. In Dedications to Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Krom Luang Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra on her 80th Birthday. 65-85. The Siam Society, Bangkok.
Higham C.F.W. 2004. Mainland Southeast Asia from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. In Glover I, and Bellwood, P., editors, Southeast Asia. From Prehistory to History Routledge Curson, London. 41-67
Higham, C.F.W. 2004. Before Devanika. Social change and state formation in the Mekong Valley. In Cherry, J., Scarre C. and Shennan, S. editors. Explaining Social Change. Studies in Honour of Colin Renfrew. Cambridge, the McDonald Insitute, 203-14.
Higham C.F.W. 2005. Ban Non Wat: lessons from the field. In Paz, V., editor, Southeast Asian Archaeology. Wilhelm G. Solheim II Festschift. Manila, University of Philippines Press, 491-503.
Higham, C.F.W,. and R. Thosarat. 2005. The excavation, stratigraphy, spatial variables and chronology. In Higham, C.F.W. and Thosarat, R., editors, 2005. The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor. Volume 1. The Excavation of Ban Lum Khao. Bangkok, The Fine Arts Department of Thailand. Pages 1-22.
Higham, C.F.W,. and R. Thosarat. 2005. The burials from mortuary phase 1. In Higham, C.F.W. and Thosarat, R., editors, 2005. The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor. Volume 1. The Excavation of Ban Lum Khao. Bangkok, The Fine Arts Department of Thailand. Pages 23-32
Higham, C.F.W,. and R. Thosarat. 2005. The burials from mortuary phase 2. In Higham, C.F.W. and Thosarat, R., editors, 2005. The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor. Volume 1. The Excavation of Ban Lum Khao. Bangkok, The Fine Arts Department of Thailand. Pages 33-96
Higham, C.F.W,. and R. Thosarat. 2005. The burials from mortuary phase 3. In Higham, C.F.W. and Thosarat, R., editors, 2005. The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor. Volume 1. The Excavation of Ban Lum Khao. Bangkok, The Fine Arts Department of Thailand. Pages 99-112
Higham, C.F.W,. 2005. The faunal remains. In Higham, C.F.W. and Thosarat, R., editors, 2005. The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor. Volume 1. The Excavation of Ban Lum Khao. Bangkok, The Fine Arts Department of Thailand. Pages 159-70.
Higham, C.F.W,. 2005. The artefacts. In Higham, C.F.W. and Thosarat, R., editors, 2005. The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor. Volume 1. The Excavation of Ban Lum Khao. Bangkok, The Fine Arts Department of Thailand. Pages 191-211.
Higham, C.F.W,. 2005. corpus of complete pottery vessels. In Higham, C.F.W. and Thosarat, R., editors, 2005. The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor. Volume 1. The Excavation of Ban Lum Khao. Bangkok, The Fine Arts Department of Thailand. Pages 239-300.
Higham, C.F.W,. and D.J.W. O’Reilly 2005. Social aspects of the cemetery. In Higham, C.F.W. and Thosarat, R., editors, 2005. The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor. Volume 1. The Excavation of Ban Lum Khao. Bangkok, The Fine Arts Department of Thailand. Pages 301-21.
Higham, C.F.W,.R. Thosarat and D.J.W. O’Reilly 2005. Conclusions. In Higham, C.F.W. and Thosarat, R., editors, 2005. The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor. Volume 1. The Excavation of Ban Lum Khao. Bangkok, The Fine Arts Department of Thailand. Pages 325-32.
Higham, C.F.W. and Thosarat, R. 2006. Ban Non Wat: the first three seasons. In Bacus, E.A., Glover I.C. and Pigott, V.C. (eds.) Uncovering Southeast Asia’s Past pp. 98-104. Singapore, NUS press.
Higham, C.F.W.. 2006. Crossing national boundaries: southern China and Southeast Asia in prehistory. In Bacus, E.A., Glover I.C. and Pigott, V.C. (eds.) Uncovering Southeast Asia’s Past pp. 13-21. Singapore, NUS press.
Higham, C.F.W. and R. Thosarat 2007. The stratigraphy and radiocarbon chronology. In Higham, C.F.W., A. Kijngam and S. Talbot, editors, The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor. Volume 1I. The Excavation of Noen U-Loke and Non Muang Kao. Bangkok, The Fine Arts Department of Thailand. Pages 75-142.
Higham, C.F.W. R. Thosarat 2007. The burials of Noen U-Loke. In Higham, C.F.W., A. Kijngam and S. Talbot, editors, The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor. Volume 1I. The Excavation of Noen U-Loke and Non Muang Kao. Bangkok, The Fine Arts Department of Thailand. Pages 143-243.
Higham, C.F.W. 2007. The material culture In Higham, C.F.W., A. Kijngam and S. Talbot, editors, The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor. Volume 1I. The Excavation of Noen U-Loke and Non Muang Kao. Bangkok, The Fine Arts Department of Thailand. Pages 353-8.
Rivett P. and C.F.W. Higham 2007. The archaeology of salt production. In Higham, C.F.W., A. Kijngam and S. Talbot, editors, The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor. Volume 1I. The Excavation of Noen U-Loke and Non Muang Kao. Bangkok, The Fine Arts Department of Thailand. Pages 589-94
Higham, C.F.W. 2007. Summary and conclusions. In Higham, C.F.W., A. Kijngam and S. Talbot, editors, The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor. Volume 1I. The Excavation of Noen U-Loke and Non Muang Kao. Bangkok, The Fine Arts Department of Thailand. Pages 595-610.
Higham, C.F.W. 2008. Whither archaeogenetics? A view from the trenches. In Matsumura, S., P. Forster and C. Renfrew, editors, Simulations, Genetics and Human Prehistory. Cambridge, Mcdonald Institute Monograph. Pages 193-7.
Higham, C.F.W. 2008 Ban Non Wat. The first five seasons. In Archaeology in Southeast Asia, from Homo erectus to the Living Traditions, eds. Pautreau J.-P., Coupey A.-S., Zeitoun V. and Rambault E. Pages 83-90. EASEA Paris.
Higham C.F.W. 2009. East Asian agriculture and its impact. In C.Scarre, editor, The Human Past 2nd Edition. London, Thames and Hudson. Pages 234-63.
Higham, C.F.W. 2009. Complex societies of East and Southeast Asia. In C.Scarre, editor, The Human Past 2nd Edition. London, Thames and Hudson. Pages 552-94.
Higham, C.F.W. 2000. The origins of the civilization of Angkor. Antiquity 74:27-8
Higham, C.F.W. 2000. The symbolism of the Angkorian city. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19(2):348-51
Higham, C.F.W. 2001. Archaeology in Myanmar: past, present and future. Asian Perspectives 40(1) 127-138.Available Online
Higham, C.F.W. 2001. Cambodia after the nightmare. Scientific American, Discovering Archaeology 3(1) 30-35.
Higham C.F.W. 2004. The opposed human figure at Khok Phanom Di. Journal of the Siam Society 92:15-36.
Higham C.F.W. 2006. Ancient bronze drums of Southeast Asia. National Palace Museum Bulletin 38:23-40.
Bentley, Alex, N. Tayles, C.F.W. Higham, C. Macpherson & T.C. Atkinson 2007. Shifting gender relations at Khok Phanom Di, Thailand: Isotopic evidence from the skeletons. Current Anthropology 48(2): 301-314. Available Online
Higham C.F.W. and T.F.G. Higham 2009. A new chronological framework for prehistoric Southeast Asia based on a Bayesian model from Ban Non Wat. Antiquity 83:125-45. Available Online
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