# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-higham
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:40:32.680Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-higham"
name: "Charles Higham"
slug: "charles-higham"
description: "Charles Franklin Wandesforde Higham is a British-born New Zealand archaeologist most noted for his work in Southeast Asia. Among his noted contributions to archaeology are his work about the Angkor civilization in Cambodia, and his current work in Northeast Thailand. He is an emeritus professor at the University of Otago in Dunedin."
tagline: "New Zealand archaeologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Higham_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.673938666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Charles Higham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تشارلز هيغام (عالم آثار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تشارلز هيجام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Higham"
    title: "Charles Higham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Higham"
    title: "Charles Higham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Higham"
    title: "Charles Higham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Higham_(archaeologist)"
    title: "Charles Higham (archaeologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Higham_(arkeolog)"
    title: "Charles Higham (arkeolog)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Higham"
    title: "Charles Higham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump