The Excavation of Khok Phanom Di, Volume 1

by Charles F.W. Higham

Khok Panom Di is a prehistoric site in central Thailand. Situated on a sheltered river estuary where sediments accumulated rapidly, it has yielded a a stratigraphic succession of burials with some twenty generations spanning the years 2000-1500 BC. This report describes the excavation in 1985, the stratigraphy and the human burials. Analysis of the human remains, the material culture and the environmental evidence will appear in subsequent reports.

372 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1990

About the author

Charles Frank Wandesforde Higham ONZM is a British-born New Zealand archaeologist. In 1957, he was offered a place at St Catharine's College, Cambridge to read Archaeology and Anthropology. However, he first spent two years at the Institute of Archaeology, London University. In 1959 he went up to Cambridge, and studied the Neolithic Bronze and Iron Ages of Europe. He took a double first and was elected a Scholar of his college in 1960. He was provided with a State Scholarship in 1962, and embarked on his doctoral research on the prehistoric economic history of Switzerland and Denmark. He was awarded his doctorate in 1966. He was appointed Foundation Professor of Anthropology at the University of Otago in 1968, and began fieldwork in Southeast Asia a year later. He is most noted for his work on the Angkor civilization in Cambodia. Dr. Higham is a Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand; he is also a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of New Zealand, and an Honorary Fellow of St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge.