Emeritus Professor Charles Higham studied archaeology at Cambridge University before taking up a lectureship at the University of Otago, New Zealand, in 1967. He began his fieldwork in Thailand two years later, in Roi et and Khon Kaen, and has been actively involved in investigating the past in Southeast Asia ever since. He has excavated at Ban Chiang, and directed fieldwork at Ban Na Di, Khok Phanom Di, and at many sites in Nakhon Ratchasima. His many publications have led to his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, the British Academy and an Honorary Fellowship of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. Four years ago, he became on Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to archaeology.

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