Digging Deep: a journey into Southeast Asia’s past

Professor Charles Higham will be a familiar figure to CWA readers. Not only does he write a regular column for the magazine, but he is also a world authority on the archaeology of Southeast Asia. When COVID shut down international travel – and with it any hope of further fieldwork or attending international conferences – Charles decided to reflect on the five decades he has spent researching the region, as well as his wider archaeological journey. The result is a charming memoir that effortlessly blends the story of his life to date with the advances in archaeological knowledge gleaned from a succession of trailblazing fieldwork campaigns he contributed to in both Europe and Southeast As