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1 month ago | 
the-past.com | Charles Higham
This article is from World Archaeology issue 130Subscribe now for full access and no advertsOne pit held nearly 400 tusks, one of which came from… a superb elephant with tusks 1.85m long. I have already described here the new discoveries at Sanxingdui, the great city that commanded the Sichuan Plain in China from 1200 BC (CWA 110). However, I cannot refrain from returning to it, because a couple of months ago a most welcome and unexpected email arrived.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
the-past.com | Charles Higham
This article is from World Archaeology issue 129Subscribe now for full access and no advertsAlUla is an oasis town in northwestern Saudi Arabia with a deep historic past as a major stepping stone for the traders who brought frankincense and myrrh north into Egypt and the Levant.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
the-past.com | Charles Higham
This article is from World Archaeology issue 128Subscribe now for full access and no advertsMy first experience of fieldwork in Southeast Asia found me in Roi et province of Northeast Thailand. It was a total accident that led me to this spot. The mighty Mekong River was then in the early stages of being seriously affected by the construction of hydro dams on its tributaries. One of these, the Lam Dom Noi, was located within a few kilometres of the border with Laos.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
dialnet.unirioja.es | Jelmer W. Eerkens |Charles Higham |Howard J. Spero
Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Isotopic and provenance analysis of Neolithic and Bronze Age shell disc beads from Ban Non Wat, north‐east Thailand Autores: Jelmer W. Eerkens, Charles Higham, Howard J. Spero Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 98, Nº 400, 2024, págs.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
the-past.com | Charles Higham
I would like to dedicate these pages to my PhD supervisor, Eric Higgs. After studying at the London School of Economics, he bought a hill farm in Shropshire at the outset of the Second World War, and spent the following decade rearing sheep and cattle, with the objective, he once told me, of breeding miniature versions of the former. By 1953, he had had enough of farming and went to Cambridge to ask Professor Grahame Clark if he could enrol for a Diploma in Archaeology.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
cambridge.org | Jelmer W. Eerkens |Charles Higham |Howard J. Spero
Keywords Southeast AsiaNeolithicBronze Agestable isotope analysisprovenance analysisshell beads Type Research Article Information Antiquity , Volume 98 , Issue 400 , August 2024 , pp. 905 - 919 Creative Commons This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
the-past.com | Charles Higham
I was delighted to be invited to the fifth Shanghai Archaeology Forum last December, happily revived after the COVID closedowns. This meeting is becoming a major fixture in the archaeological calendar, for every two years the advisory committee is asked to adjudicate all the nominations for field discovery and research awards. This is a tough assignment, given the number of nominations and the high quality throughout.
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May 19, 2024 | 
the-past.com | Charles Higham
There has, of late, been a veritable tsunami of results from recent research that are literally transforming prehistory before our very eyes. One of these that has attracted a lot of interest beyond specialists in early Southeast Asia comes from Óc Eo, a 2,000-year old port on the Mekong Delta.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
lancashirebusinessview.co.uk | Charles Higham
For most, investments are not a pressing topic, best left for another day. Yet just a little time spent on our financial affairs can yield long term benefits. Here are a few areas to consider when entering the investment arena. Time in the market vs timing the market: investments historically perform better when left undisturbed.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
dialnet.unirioja.es | Charles Higham
Aggrandisers and the first copper-base metallurgy in Southeast AsiaAutores: Charles HighamLocalización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 98, Nº 398, 2024, págs. 433-453Idioma: inglésTexto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)ResumenThe settlement of Ban Non Wat charts the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in north-eastern Thailand. Examination of grave inclusions and mortuary treatment at this important site allows insights into social change during this key period.
