1. Higham, C.F.W. 2021. The later prehistory of Southeast Asia and southern 1. China: the impact of exchange, farming and metallurgy. Asian Archaeology 4:63-93. DOI: 10.1007/s41826-021-00040-y View

2. Higham, C. F. W., & Cawte, H. 2021. Bronze metallurgy in Southeast Asia with particular reference to Northeast Thailand. Journal of World Prehistory 34: 1-46. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-020-09151-3 View

3. Higham, T.F.G., Weiss, A.D., Higham, C.F.W., Bronk Ramsey, C., d'Alpoim Guedes, J., Hanson, S., Weber, S.A., Rispoli, F., Ciarla, R., Pryce, T.O. and Pigott, V.C. 2020. A Prehistoric copper-production centre in central Thailand: its dating and wider implications. Antiquity 94:948-65. DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2020.120 View

4. Higham, C.F.W. 2020. Ban Chiang: The Metal Remains in Regional Context. A Review Essay. Journal of the Siam Society, Vol. 108, Pt. 1, pp. 161–194 View

5. Higham, C.F.W. 2019. Ban Chiang, Northeast Thailand, Volumes 2A and 2B: 
A Review Essay. Asian Perspectives, 59: 208-223. doi:10.1353/asi.2020.0013 View

6. Higham, C.F.W., Higham T.F.G. and Douka, K. 2019. Dating the Bronze Age of Southeast Asia. Why does it matter? Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology 43: 43-67. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.7152/jipa.v43i0.15411. View

7. Higham, C.F.W., B.F.J. Manly, R. Thosarat, H.R. Buckley, N. Chang, S.E. Halcrow, S. Ward, D.J.W. O'Reilly, K. Domett and L.G. Shewan 2019. Environmental and Social Change in Northeast Thailand during the Iron Age. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 29(4), 548–69. doi:10.1017/S0959774319000192 View

8. Castillo, C.C., C.F.W. Higham, K. Miller, N. Chang, K. Douka, T.F.G. Higham & D.Q. Fuller 2018. Social responses to climate change in Iron Age Northeast Thailand: new archaeobotanical evidence. Antiquity 92: 1274-91. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.198 View

9. Higham, C.F.W., B.F.J. Manly, R. Thosarat, H.R. Buckley, N. Chang, S.E. Halcrow, S. Ward, D.J.W. O'Reilly, K. Domett and L.G. Shewan 2019. Environmental and Social Change in Northeast Thailand during the Iron Age. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 29(4), 548–69. doi:10.1017/S0959774319000192 View

10. Martello, R., Rui Min, Stevens,C. Higham, C.F.W., Higham, T.F.G., Ling Qin, Fuller, D.Q., 2018 Early agriculture at the crossroads of China and Southeast Asia: Archaeobotanical evidence and radiocarbon dates from Baiyangcun, Yunnan. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 20: 711-21. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.06.005 View

11. Yamoah, K.A., Higham, C.F.W., Wohlfarth, B., Chabangborn, A., Chawchai, S., Schenk, F. and Smittenberg, R.H. 2017. Societal response to monsoonal fluctuations in NE Thailand during the demise of Angkor Civilisation. The Holocene DOI: 10.1177/0959683617693900. View

12. Higham, C.F.W. 2017. First farmers in Southeast Asia. Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology 41: 13-21. View

13. Higham C.F.W. 2012 The Long and Winding Road that Leads to Angkor. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 22:265­289. View

14. Higham, C.F.W. 2016. At the dawn of history: from Iron Age aggrandizers to Zhenla kings. Journal of Southeast Asian History 47(3): 418-437. DOI: 10.1017/S0022463416000266 View

15. Wohlfarth, B., Higham, C.F.W., Yamoah, K.A., Chabangborn, A, Chawchai, S. and Smittenberg, R.H. 2016. Human adaptation to mid- to late-Holocene climate change in Northeast Thailand. The Holocene, 26(4): 614-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683616645947 View

16. Smith, B.A., Davies, T.M. and Higham, C.F.W. 2015. Spatial and social variables in the Bronze Age Phase 4 cemetery of Ban Non Wat, Northeast Thailand. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 4 (2015) 362–370. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.003 View

17. C.F.W. Higham, K. Douka and T.F.G. Higham 2015. A New Chronology for the Bronze Age of Northeastern Thailand and Its Implications for Southeast Asian Prehistory http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0137542
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18. C.F.W. Higham 2015. From site formation to social structure in prehistoric Thailand. Journal of Field Archaeology 40: 383-396. https://doi.org/10.1179/2042458214Y.0000000010 View

19. Higham C.F.W., Higham T.F.G. and Douka, K. 2014. The chronology and status of Non Nok Tha, Northeast Thailand. Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology 34: 61-75. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7152/jipa.v34i0.14719 View

20. Higham, C.F.W. and F. Rispoli 2014. The Mun Valley and Central Thailand in prehistory: integrating two cultural sequences. Open Archaeology 1:2-28. https://doi.org/10.2478/opar-2014-0002 View

21. Higham C.F.W., R. Ciarla, T.F.G. Higham, A. Kijngam and F. Rispoli 2011. The origins of the Bronze Age in Southeast Asia. Journal of World Prehistory, 24 (4),227-274. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-011-9054-6 View

22. Higham, C.F.W. (2013) "Hunter-Gatherers in Southeast Asia: from prehistory to the present," Human Biology: 85: 21-44. DOI: 10.3378/027.085.0302 View

23. Higham C.F.W. 2011. The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia: new insight on social change from Ban Non Wat. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 21(3): 365-89. doi:10.1017/S0959774311000424 View

24. Higham C.F.W. 2011. The Iron Age of the Mun Valley, Thailand. The Antiquaries Journal, 91:1-44. doi:10.1017/S0003581511000114 View

25. 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 82:1-20. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00098136 View

26. Higham, C.F.W. 1989. Social organisation at Khok Phanom Di, Central Thailand, 2000-1500 B.C. Arts Asiatiques , XLIV:25-43 1989. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3406/arasi.1989.1256 View

27. Higham, C.F.W. 1984. The Ban Chiang culture in wider perspective, Proceedings of the British Academy, LXIX 229-261. View

28. Matsumura, H., Hung, H., Higham, C.F.W., Zhang, C., Yamagata, M., Nguyen, L., Li, A., Fan, X., Simanjuntak, T., Oktaviana, A., He, J., 4, Chen, C., Pan, C., He, G., Sun, G., Huang, W., Li, X., Wei X., Kate Domett, K., Halcrow, S., Nguyen, K.D., Trinh, H.H., Bui, C.H., Nguyen K.K. & Reinecke, A. 2019. Craniometrics reveal “Two Layers” of prehistoric human dispersal in Eastern Eurasia. Scientific reports 9:1451 | DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-35426-z View

29. Higham C.F.W. 2022. Stasis or stimulus? Exotic materials and social display in Southeast Asia: Response to Pfaffenberger. Advances in Archaeomaterials. View

30. Higham, C.F.W. and Higham, T.F.G. 2022. Khok Phanom Di: New radiocarbon dates and their implications. Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology 46:17-30. View

31. Higham, C.F.W. and Higham, T.F.G. 2022. New radiocarbon dates for Iron Age Noen U-Loke. Journal of Indo-Pacific Prehistory 46: 31-38. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1082-6215. View

32. Higham, C. F. W., & Kijngam, A. (2023). Zooarchaeology of Ban Chiang and the rise of early farming communities in mainland Southeast Asia. International Journal of archaeology, 33(1), 51–69. https://doi-org.ezproxy.otago.ac.nz/10.1002/oa.3174. View

33. Higham, C.F.W. (2023). The Bronze Age and Southeast Asia, Old World: Journal of Ancient Africa and Eurasia, 3(1), 1-33. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/26670755-20230004. View

34. Henriquez, A.C., Buckley, H., Domett, K., Halcrow, S.E., Higham, C.F.W. et al. 2023. Chronology, duration, and periodicity of linear enamel hypoplasia at the late Iron Age site Non Ban Jak, Thailand: A quantitative microscopic analysis, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Volume 48, 103866, ISSN 2352-409X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.103866. View

35. Stacey M. Ward, Siân E. Halcrow, Hallie R. Buckley, Andrew R. Gray, Charles F. W. Higham, Kate Domett, Dougald J. W. O'Reilly, and Louise G. Shewan 2019. Social Status and Its Relationship to Non-specific Stress at Late Iron Age Non Ban Jak, Northeast Thailand. Bioarchaeology International 3(4): 281–302 DOI: 10.5744/bi.2019.1017 View

36. King, C.L, Tayles, N., Higham, C.F.W., Strand-Vidarsdottir, U., Bentley, R.A., Macpherson, C.G. and Nowell, G. 2015. Using Isotopic Evidence to Assess the Impact of Migration and the Two-Layer Hypothesis in Prehistoric Northeast Thailand. American Journal of Physical Anthropology DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22772 View

37. Castillo, C.C., Tanaka, K., Sato, Y.-I., Ishikawa, R., Bellina, B., Higham, C.F.W., Chang, N., Mohanty, R., Kajale, M. and Fuller, D.Q. 2015. Archaeogenetic study of prehistoric rice remains from Thailand and India: evidence of early japonica in South and Southeast Asia. Archaeological and Anthropological Science DOI 10.1007/s12520-015-0236-5 View

38. Conrad, C., Higham, C.F.W., Eda, M. and Marwick, B. 2016. Palaeoecology and Forager Subsistence Strategies during the Pleistocene–Holocene Transition: A Reinvestigation of the Zooarchaeological Assemblage from Spirit Cave, Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand. Asian Perspectives 55:1 2-27. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26357698 View

39. Thomas Oliver Pryce, Aung Aung Kyaw, Myo Min Kyaw, Tin Tin Win, Thu Thu Win, Khin Htwe Win, May Myat Mon, Mar Mar Aye, Su Hlaing Htay, Aye Aye Mar, Bérénice Bellina, R. Alexander Bentley, Louis Champion, Camille Colonna, Amanda J. Cook, Aude Favereau, Dorian Q Fuller, Cloé Georjon, Charles Higham, Kalayar Myat Myat Htwe, Yoshiyuki Iizuka, Jitlada Innanchai, Clémence Le Meur, Xavier Peixoto, Peter Petchey, Ron Pinhasi, Baptiste Pradier, Frédérique Valentin, Anna Willis & Antoine Zazzo 2018. A first absolute chronology for Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age Myanmar: new AMS 14C dates from Nyaung'gan and Oakaie. Antiquity 92:690–708. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.66. View

39. Thomas Oliver Pryce, Aung Aung Kyaw, Myo Min Kyaw, Tin Tin Win, Thu Thu Win, Khin Htwe Win, May Myat Mon, Mar Mar Aye, Su Hlaing Htay, Aye Aye Mar, Bérénice Bellina, R. Alexander Bentley, Louis Champion, Camille Colonna, Amanda J. Cook, Aude Favereau, Dorian Q Fuller, Cloé Georjon, Charles Higham, Kalayar Myat Myat Htwe, Yoshiyuki Iizuka, Jitlada Innanchai, Clémence Le Meur, Xavier Peixoto, Peter Petchey, Ron Pinhasi, Baptiste Pradier, Frédérique Valentin, Anna Willis & Antoine Zazzo 2018. A first absolute chronology for Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age Myanmar: new AMS 14C dates from Nyaung'gan and Oakaie. Antiquity 92:690–708. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.66. View

40. Hugh McColl, Fernando Racimo, Lasse Vinner, Fabrice Demeter, Takashi Gakuhari, J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar, George van Driem, Uffe Gram Wilken, Andaine Seguin-Orlando, Constanza de la Fuente Castro1, Sally Wasef, Rasmi Shoocongdej, Viengkeo Souksavatdy, Thongsa Sayavongkhamdy, Mohd Mokhtar Saidin, Morten E. Allentoft, Takehiro Sato, Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Farhang A. Aghakhanian, Thorfinn Korneliussen, Ana Prohaska, Ashot Margaryan, Peter de Barros Damgaard, Supannee Kaewsutthi, Patcharee Lertrit, Thi Mai Huong Nguyen, Hsiao-chun Hung, Thi Minh Tran, Huu Nghia Truong, Giang Hai Nguyen, Shaiful Shahidan, Ketut Wiradnyana, Hiromi Matsumae, Nobuo Shigehara, Minoru Yoneda, Hajime Ishida, Tadayuki Masuyama, Yasuhiro Yamada, Atsushi Tajima, Hiroki Shibata, Atsushi Toyoda, Tsunehiko Hanihara, Shigeki Nakagome, Thibaut Deviese, Anne-Marie Bacon, Philippe Duringer, Jean-Luc Ponche, Laura Shackelford, Elise Patole-Edoumba, Anh Tuan Nguyen, Bérénice Bellina-Pryce, Jean-Christophe Galipaud, Rebecca Kinaston, Hallie Buckley, Christophe Pottier, Simon Rasmussen, Tom Higham, Robert A. Foley, Marta Mirazón Lahr, Ludovic Orlando, Martin Sikora, Maude E. Phipps, Hiroki Oota, Charles Higham, David M. Lambert, Eske Willerslev 2018. The prehistoric peopling of Southeast Asia. Science 361, 88–92. DOI: 10.1126/science.aat36. View

41. d'Alpoim Guedes, J., Hanson, S. Higham, C.F.W., Higham, T.F.G. and Lertcharnrit, T. 2019. The wet and the dry, the wild and the cultivated: subsistence and risk management in ancient Central Thailand. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00794-8. View

42. Pedersen, L.T., Domett, K. Chang N.J., Halcrow S.E., Buckley, H.R., Higham, C.F.W., O'Reilly, D.W.J. and Shewan, L. 2019. A Bioarchaeological Study of Trauma at Late Iron Age to Protohistoric Non Ban Jak, Northeast Thailand. Asian Perspectives 58:220-249. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26792733. View

43. Vlok, M., Oxenham, M.F., Domett, K. Tran Thi Minh, Nguyen Thi Mai Huong, Matsumura, H., Hiep Hoang Trinh, Higham, T.F.G., Higham, C.F.W., Nghia Truong Huu and Buckley, H.R. 2020. Two Probable Cases of Infection with Treponema pallidum during the Neolithic Period in Northern Vietnam (ca. 2000–1500 B.C.). Bioarchaeology International, 4:15–36 DOI: 10.5744/bi.2020.1000. View

44. Dzung, L.T.M., Thuy, N.T., Quy, T.T.K., Bellwood, P., Higham, C.F.W., Petchey, F., Grono, E., Chieu, N. and Piper, P. 2020. Ru Diep and the Quynh Van culture of central Vietnam. Archaeological Research in Asia 22: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2020.100190. View

45. Higham, C.F.W., Manly, B. and Navarro, J. 2020. From late prehistory to the foundation of early states in inland Southeast Asia: a debate. Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology 44:52–79. https://doi.org/10.7152/jipa.v44i0.15651. View

46. Higham C. Aggrandisers and the first copper-base metallurgy in Southeast Asia. Antiquity. Published online 2024:1-21. doi:10.15184/aqy.2024.11. View.

47. Higham, C.F.W. 2024. Mortuary rituals and social change from the Neolithic to the Iron Age in Thailand. Asian Archaeology; https://doi.org/10.1007/s41826-024-00094-8. View

48. Fu Jie, Li Yingfu, Hu Changcheng, Wan Yang, Yang Fan, Zhu Yunsheng, Vincent C. Pigott, Charles Higham and Li Yuniu 2024. Reassessing Bronze Age Metallurgy in Upland Southwest China on the Basis of Excavations at Longbohe, Yunnan. Journal of World Prehistory; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-024-09186-w. View

49. Eerkens J., Higham, C.F.W. and Spero, H.J. 2024. Isotopic and provenance analysis of Neolithic and Bronze Age shell disc beads from Ban Non Wat, north‐east Thailand. Antiquity 98 (400): 905–919 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.86. View

50. Fu, J., Li, Y., Hu, C., Pan, Gl, Yang, X., He, Q., Higham, C.F.W. and Li, Y. 2024. Southbound transmission of metallurgy: new excavations at Jicha in the Hengduan Mountains, Yunnan. Antiquity 98(400): e19. doi:10.15184/aqy.2024.70. View

51. Pryce, T.O. and C.F.W. Higham 2025. Differential metal supply networks between central and northeast Thailand, and Northwest Cambodia during the Mid‐Late Iron Age: silver, copper and lead alloy artefacts from 2nd‐8th c. AD Non Ban Jak. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences; https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-024-02121-2. View

52. Higham, C.F.W. and Alves, M.J. 2025. The Southeast Asian prehistoric house: a correlation between archaeology and linguistics. Asian Archaeology. Asian Archaeology 9:109–120 https://doi.org/10.1007/s41826-025-00107-0. View

53. Guangmao Xie, Xiaoying Chen, Zhangwang Meng, Yan Wu and Charles Higham 2025. Complex hunter-gatherers and first farmers in southern China. Archaeological Research in Asia 42: 100625 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2025.100615. View

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