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  title info:
    title: Digging deep
    sub title: a journey into Southeast Asia's past
  name:
    name part: Higham, Charles
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biographies.
  genre: Autobiographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: th
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 253 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
  abstract: "Charles Higham - rugby player, talented excavator and one of the great archaeologists of his generation - is an engaging raconteur. His fast-moving autobiography tells of the life well lived, of a world authority on Southeast Asia's past. This is a fascinating and adventurous journey complete with academic debates, serious archaeology, its triumphs and minor disasters galore. Read this book if you aspire to be an archaeologist. It will inspire you to great deeds. - Brian Fagan, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, University of California, Santa Barbara. Higham charts an archaeological Odyssey from Roman Britain via the Bronze Age stock-breeders of central Europe to prehistoric Thailand and the origins of Angkor. This complements a personal journey equally eventful, from a double first and rugby blue at Cambridge to building a university department in New Zealand. Here is a life laden with academic honours and the thrill of discovery on a series of digs that have transformed understanding of the human past in a hitherto-under-evaluated part of the ancient world. - Professor Norman Hammond, Senior Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University. Charles Higham presents a readable and often witty account of a golden age in archaeological excavation in Thailand, Neolithic to Iron Age, from his perspective as a fundamental contributor. A must-read for colleagues, students, and the interested public are like. - Emeritus Professor Peter Bellwood, Australian National University. In this unique memoir, Charles Higham, one of the great archeologists of his generation, describes the inside story of how his many excavations have introduced Southeast Asia's past to a worldwide audience. For over 50 years, he and his Thai colleagues have explored the arrival of early humans, the impact of the first farmers, the remarkable rise of social elites with the spread of metallurgy and the origins of civilizations. Once seen as a cultural backwat…
  note: Charles Higham.
  note: In English.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-246) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-th---
    geographic code: as-----
  subject:
    topic: Excavations (Archaeology)
    geographic: Thailand
  subject:
    topic: Excavations (Archaeology)
    geographic: Southeast Asia
  subject:
    geographic: Thailand
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    geographic: Southeast Asia
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Higham, Charles
  subject:
    topic: Archaeologists
    geographic: Great Britain
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Archaeologists
    geographic: New Zealand
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Fouilles (Archéologie)
    geographic: Thaïlande
  subject:
    topic: Fouilles (Archéologie)
    geographic: Asie du Sud-Est
  subject:
    geographic: Asie du Sud-Est
    topic: Antiquités
  subject:
    topic: Archéologues
    geographic: Grande-Bretagne
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Archéologues
    geographic: Nouvelle-Zélande
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Higham, Charles
  subject:
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    topic: Archaeologists
  subject:
    topic: Excavations (Archaeology)
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    geographic: New Zealand
  subject:
    geographic: Southeast Asia
  subject:
    geographic: Thailand
  classification: DS567 .H53 2021
  identifier: 9786164510586
  identifier: 6164510589
  identifier: 2021313073
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: EYM
    record creation date: 211201
    record change date: 20250318220027.2
    record identifier: in00004593207
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng