Nigel Chang
Projects
3
Publications
43
Awards
0
Biography
Originially from New Zealand I have been at James Cook University since mid-2005. I was fortunate to study under Prof. Charles Higham at Otago University where I was able to get experience not only in prehistoric and historic archaeology in New Zealand but was also introduced to Southeast Asia. Since my first field work at the site of Nong Nor in Thailand (1991) I have been committed to working in the region. I have been lucky enough to be able to work in Thailand, Cambodia and the Lao PDR. Since 2010 I have lead a variety of student exchange projects funded by the Australian Government (initially the Asia Bound scheme and more recently the New Colombo Plan).
Research
Projects
Unravelling the mystery of the Plain of Jars, Laos (Old ID 21895)
01 Jan 2015 - 14 Jan 2020
2014 Archaeological Excavation & Training Project, MMG-LXML, Lao PDR (Old ID 21821)
30 Sep 2014 - 31 Dec 2019
Teaching
Taught Modules
[BA4003] Arts Honours Thesis Part 3Coordinator
2024
[AR1001] The World of ArchaeologyLecturer, Coordinator
2024
2024
2022
[BA4003] Arts Honours Thesis Part 3Coordinator
2022
[WS2008] International ExchangeCoordinator
2023
[AN2114] Australia through Time and PlaceCoordinator, Lecturer
2023
[AR1001] The World of ArchaeologyCoordinator, Lecturer
2023
[AR2405] Archaeology in PracticeCoordinator, Lecturer
2025
2021
2025
[BA4003] Arts Honours Thesis Part 3Coordinator
2025
[AR1001] The World of ArchaeologyCoordinator, Course Builder, Lecturer
2025
2023
[AR1001] The World of ArchaeologyLecturer, Coordinator
2022
[AR3501] Ancestors and Emperors: The Rise and Fall of Ancient SocietiesLecturer, Coordinator
2022
[AR3501] Ancestors and Emperors: The Rise and Fall of Ancient SocietiesLecturer, Coordinator
2024
[AR3501] Ancestors and Emperors: The Rise and Fall of Ancient SocietiesLecturer, Coordinator
2025
[BA4000] Becoming a ResearcherCoordinator, Lecturer
2023
[BA4000] Becoming a ResearcherCoordinator, Lecturer
2024
[BA4000] Becoming a ResearcherCoordinator, Lecturer
2025
[BA4001] Arts Honours Thesis Part 1Coordinator
2022
[BA4001] Arts Honours Thesis Part 1Coordinator
2023
[BA4001] Arts Honours Thesis Part 1Coordinator
2024
[BA4001] Arts Honours Thesis Part 1Coordinator
2025
[BA4002] Arts Honours Thesis Part 2Coordinator
2022
[BA4002] Arts Honours Thesis Part 2Coordinator
2023
[BA4002] Arts Honours Thesis Part 2Coordinator
2024
[BA4002] Arts Honours Thesis Part 2Coordinator
2025
[BA4003] Arts Honours Thesis Part 3Coordinator
2023
[HI2009] War and Australian SocietyCoordinator
2024
[WS2008] International ExchangeCoordinator, Lecturer
2022
[WS2008] International ExchangeLecturer, Coordinator
2024
[WS2008] International ExchangeLecturer, Coordinator
2025
Current JCU Research Students
How can blockchain and artificial intelligence be leveraged to enhance the tracing, recovery, and repatriation of stolen or looted cultural artefacts, and what are the practical implications of integrating these technologies into the existing frameworks of cultural heritage protection?
Master of Philosophy (Society and Culture)
Life of the Stone: Experimental approaches to megalith production
Doctor of Philosophy (Society and Culture)
"In any direction it would be difficult to find one acre of level ground”: The Mining and Social Landscapes of the Normanby Goldfield, near Bowen, North Queensland
Doctor of Philosophy (Society and Culture)
Calf Clan Culture: Rock art of the Khorat Plateau
Doctor of Philosophy (Society and Culture)
Completed JCU Research Students
The dentition of the people of Iron Age Non Ban Jak
Master of Philosophy (Society and Culture)- 2022
Shaping the Stone: Experimental Approaches to the Plain of Jars Megaliths, Lao PDR
Master of Philosophy (Society and Culture)- 2022
Everyday life in prehistoric Thailand: What can the spindle whorls tell us?
Doctor of Philosophy (Arts and Social Sciences) (Res)- 2023
Ancient ceramics at Vilabouly: pottery production and society in Laos
Doctor of Philosophy (Society and Culture)- 2023
The effects of aging on bone macro- and microstructure of two populations in the Asia-Pacific region
Doctor of Philosophy (Society and Culture)- 2024
For A Few Horses More: The Role of Domesticated Livestock in the Development of North Queensland
Master of Philosophy (Society and Culture)- 2023
Stature Estimation from Fragmentary Skeletal Remains in Prehistoric Cambodia: Health and forensic applications
Master of Philosophy (Society and Culture)- 2025
Current Honours and External Research Students
Everyday Archaeology: Taking A Reimagined Typological Approach to Southeast Asian Bone Artefacts
HONOURS- 2024
Humanity constructs itself through entanglement - A study of human entanglement, entwinement, and entrapment.
HONOURS- 2023
From Neolithic to Iron Age: Investigating Mollusc Exploitation in Northeastern Thailand
HONOURS- 2024
The Domesticated Dog in Thailand and Surrounding Regions During the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages, and their Roles in Societies
HONOURS- 2024
Output
Chang, N.J. (2007) The shell, silver, gold, bronze and bone personal ornaments. Bangkok, Thailand: [Reference Material] ...
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Chang, Nigel J (2004) The personal ornaments. Bangkok, Thailand: [Non-Research Book Chapter] ...
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Goldfinch, Felise; Chang, Nigel; Hardy, Dianna (2025) 'Ex Machina: Machine Learning, ceramics & rock. SPAFA Journal, . ...
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Cadet, Melissa; Pryce, T.O.; Dillmann, Philippe; Sayavongkhamdy, Thongsa; Souksavatdy, Viengkeo; Lua...
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Domett, Kate; Colbert, Alana; Chang, Nigel (2022) 'The impact of clubfoot: A holistic, paleopatholog. Bioarchaeology International, 6 (4):274-293. [DOI] ...
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Cadet, Mélissa; Tereygeol, Florian; Sayavongkhamdy, Thongsa; Souksavatdy, Viengkeo; Luangkhoth, Thon...
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Shewan, Louise; O'Reilly, Dougald; Armstrong, Richard; Toms, Phillip; Webb, John; Beavan, Nancy; Lua...
Kanthilatha, Nelum; Boyd, William; Chang, Nigel (2020) 'Sedimentary landscape of Mun Valley prehisto. Quaternary, 3 (1). [DOI] ...
Cadet, Melissa; Sayavongkhamdy, Thongsa; Souksavatdy, Viengkeo; Luangkhoth, Thonglith; Dillman, Phil...
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Higham, C.F.W.; Manly, B.F.J.; Thosarat, R.; Buckley, H.R.; Chang, N.; Halcrow, S.E.; Ward, S.; O'Re...
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Pedersen, Lucille T.; Domett, Kate M.; Chang, Nigel J.; Halcrow, Siân E.; Buckley, Hallie R.; Higham...
Social responses to climate change in Iron Age north-east Thailand: new archaeobotanical evidence
2018
Castillo, Cristina C.; Higham, Charles; Miller, Katie; Chang, Nigel; Douka, Katerina; Higham, Tom; F...
Kanthilatha, Nelum; Boyd, William; Chang, Nigel (2017) 'Multi-element characterization of archaeolog. Quaternary International, 432 :66-78. [DOI] ...
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Domett, Kate; Evans, Caitlin; Chang, Nigel; Tayles, Nancy; Newton, Jennifer (2017) 'Interpreting ost. Journal of Arc, 11 :762-773....
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Kanthilatha, Nelum; Boyd, William; Parr, Jeffrey; Chang, Nigel (2017) 'Implications of phytolith and. Environmental Archaeology, 22 (1):15-27. [DOI] ...
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Evans, Caitlin; Chang, Nigel; Shimizu, Naho (2016) 'Sites, survey, and ceramics: settlement patterns. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 47 (3):438-467. [DOI] ...
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Castillo, Cristina Cobo; Tanaka, Katsunori; Sato, Yo-Ichiro; Ishikawa, Ryuji; Bellina, Bérénice; Hig...
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Shimizu, Naho; Souksavatdy, Viengkeo; Chang, Nigel; Luangkhot, Thonglith (2016) 'Trade ceramics reco. Journal of Southe, 36 :47-60. ...
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Khongthon, Netchanok; Chang, Nigel (2016) 'The folk healers' local knowledge transfer before Angkor . SNRU Journal of Science and Technology, 1 (1):60-66. ...
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Kerdsap, Puangtip; Chang, Nigel (2016) 'Comparison in spindle whorls'. Science and Technology Research Journal Sakon Nahon Ratcha, 1 (1):48-59. ...
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Duke, Belinda J.; Chang, Nigel J.; Moffat, Ian; Morris, Wayne (2016) 'The invisible moats of the Mun. Journal of Indo-Pacific Arch, 40 :1-11. [DOI] ...
Yankowski, Andrea; Kerdsap, Puangtip; Chang, Nigel (2015) 'Please pass the salt – an ethnoarchaeolog. Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology, 37 :4-13. [DOI] ...
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Kanthilatha, Nelum; Boyd, William; Dowell, Ashley; Mann, Alice; Chang, Nigel; Wohlmuth, Hans; Parr, ...
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Pryce, Thomas Oliver; Baron, Sandrine; Bellina, Bérénice H.M.; Bellwood, Peter S.; Chang, Nigel; Cha...
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Mayes, Warren; Chang, Nigel (2014) 'Discovering Sepon: cultural heritage management and the making o. The Extractive Industries and Society, 1 (2):237-248. [DOI] ...
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Tucci, Antonino; Sayavongkhamdy, Thongsa; Chang, Nigel; Souksavatdy, Viengkeo (2014) 'Ancient copper. 2 (2):1-15. ...
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Higham, Charles; Cameron, Judith; Chang, Nigel; Castillo, Cristina; Halcrow, Sian; O'Reilly, Dougald...
Pryce, Thomas Oliver; Brauns, Michael; Chang, Nigel; Pernicka, Ernst; Pollard, A. Mark; Ramsey, Chri...
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Duke, Belinda J.; Carter, Alison K.; Chang, Nigel J. (2010) 'The excavation of iron age working floo. 20 :123-130. ...
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Hardy, Dianna; Chang, Nigel; Atkinson, Ian (2008) 'e-Research and archaeological datasets'. The Bulletin of the Australian Institute for Ma, 32 :1-6. ...
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Chang, Nigel J; Voelker, Judy (2003) 'Wash and wear, disposable and cheap: Ceramic bangles as everyd. Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin, 23 :19-26. ...
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Chang, Nigel (2009) 'The archaeology of Ban Non Wat: a view of the collaborative process' SAA Archaeological Record, 9 (3) :40-42. ...
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Chang, Nigel (2008) 'Past and present at Ban Non Wat, Thailand' Archaeology Abroad, 39 :9-12. ...
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Mayes, Warren; Chang, Nigel (2013) SRMining 2013: 2nd International Conference on Social Responsibil...
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Harris, N.; Miles, D.; Chang, N.; Jones, P.; Francis, A.; Zuchowski, I. (2012) Social Work: Towards ...
Miles, Debra; Chang, Nigel; Jones, Peter; Francis, Abraham; Zuchowski, Ines; Harris, Nonie (2011) 20...
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Miles, Debra; Chang, Nigel; Jones, Peter; Francis, Abraham; Zuchowski, Ines; Harris, Nonie (2011) 20...
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Kuttainen, Victoria; Lundberg, Anita; Wight, Linda; Chang, Nigel (2010) Enhancing Learning Experienc...
Halliwell, Alisha; Yankowski, Andrea; Chang, Nigel (2016) 'Gendered labor in pottery and salt produc In: Halliwell, Alisha, Yankowski, Andrea,...
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Domett, Kate; Newton, Jennifer; Colbert, Alana; Chang, Nigel; Halcrow, Sian (2016) 'Frail, foreign o In: Domett, Kate...
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Boyd, William E.; Chang, Nigel (2010) 'Integrating social and environmental change in prehistory: a In: Boyd, William E., and Chang, Nigel (2010) Integrating so...
Book Chapter
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Chang, N.J. (1998) 'The Personal Ornaments' In: Chang, N.J. (1998) The Personal Ornaments. In: Higham, C.F.W., and Thosar...
The Metal Artefacts
1998
Reay, A.; Chang, N. J. (1998) 'The Metal Artefacts' In: Reay, A., and Chang, N. J. (1998) The Metal Artefacts. In: Hig...