Professor Charles Higham
University of Otago - Dunedin- New Zealand

30-6-1985

Dear Professor Higham,

You will recall I corresponded with you some time back regarding chicken bone recoveries, and last year I sent you a copy of Chicken Bone Recoveries being part of the study I am doing on the origin, evolution, history and distribution of the domestic fowl.

I hadn’t heard from you and was wandering whether it arrived OK. I would like to have your comments on it.

You did mention in one of your letters that you may send some of the chicken bone you recovered in North East Thailand over to me. It would be interesting to do some study on it in an endeavour to ascertain the actual species it may belonged it to.

You gave me a Canadian address of Jenny Cave who did a paper on the dating of chicken bone in the Pacific area. I wrote but received no reply from her, the letter was not returned to me. Would there be any possibility of obtaining a copy of her paper? I would like to study it.

I have received feedback in the way of information from my chicken bone book, some of it I feel very important. You are probably aware of the recoveries around Cishan in Northern China by Professor Zhou Ban Xiang in recent times, animals, chickens etc, the dating around 5000 BC.

I am in process of preparing the manuscript for my next booklet entitled the Gallus species. This will include a supplement containing the further information I have received regarding chicken bone recoveries. I hope to publish this before the end of the year. Hoping to Hear from you in the not too distant future.

Sincerely yours,