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Bachelors Archaeology University of Cape Town

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According to Wikipedia, Christopher Stuart Henshilwood is a South African archaeologist. He has been Professor of African Archaeology at the University of Bergen since 2007 and, since 2008, Professor at the Chair of "The Origins of Modern Human Behaviour" at the University of the Witwatersrand. Henshilwood became internationally known due to his excavations in the Blombos Cave, where - according to his study published in 2002 - the oldest known works of humanity had been discovered. Henshilwood and his work have been featured on National Geographic and CNN Inside Africa.

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Christopher Henshilwood's Published Works

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Emergence of Modern Human Behavior: Middle Stone Age Engravings from South Africa (2002) (778)
The Origin of Modern Human Behavior (2003) (656)
Nassarius kraussianus shell beads from Blombos Cave: evidence for symbolic behaviour in the Middle Stone Age. (2005) (604)
Middle Stone Age Shell Beads from South Africa (2004) (559)
Engraved ochres from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa. (2009) (515)
Archaeological Evidence for the Emergence of Language, Symbolism, and Music–An Alternative Multidisciplinary Perspective (2003) (505)
Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa : Preliminary report on the 1992-1999 excavations of the Middle Stone Age levels (2001) (446)
A 100,000-Year-Old Ochre-Processing Workshop at Blombos Cave, South Africa (2011) (429)
An early bone tool industry from the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, South Africa: implications for the origins of modern human behaviour, symbolism and language. (2001) (374)
Additional evidence for bone technology in the southern African Middle Stone Age. (2007) (243)
Extending the chronology of deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa, back to 140 ka using optical dating of single and multiple grains of quartz. (2006) (229)
Early Use of Pressure Flaking on Lithic Artifacts at Blombos Cave, South Africa (2010) (228)
Thinking strings: additional evidence for personal ornament use in the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, South Africa. (2013) (191)
An engraved bone fragment from c. 70,000-year-old Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa: implications for the origin of symbolism and language (2001) (171)
The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort, 77–59 ka (2011) (169)
The Still Bay points of Blombos Cave (South Africa) (2009) (166)
Bone Artefacts from the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa1 (1997) (161)
Klipdrift Shelter, southern Cape, South Africa: preliminary report on the Howiesons Poort layers (2014) (142)
Homo symbolicus : the dawn of language, imagination and spirituality (2011) (141)
An abstract drawing from the 73,000-year-old levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa (2018) (130)
An improved OSL chronology for the Still Bay layers at Blombos Cave, South Africa: further tests of single-grain dating procedures and a re-evaluation of the timing of the Still Bay industry across southern Africa (2013) (114)
Late Pleistocene Techno-traditions in Southern Africa: A Review of the Still Bay and Howiesons Poort, c. 75–59 ka (2012) (108)
TL DATING OF BURNT LITHICS FROM BLOMBOS CAVE (SOUTH AFRICA): FURTHER EVIDENCE FOR THE ANTIQUITY OF MODERN HUMAN BEHAVIOUR* (2006) (93)
A revised chronology for pastoralism in southernmost Africa: new evidence of sheep at c. 2000 b.p. from Blombos Cave, South Africa (1996) (90)
The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort at Sibudu and Blombos: Understanding Middle Stone Age Technologies (2015) (84)
Taphonomic analysis of the Middle Stone Age larger mammal faunal assemblage from Blombos Cave, southern Cape, South Africa. (2011) (65)
Identifying early modern human ecological niche expansions and associated cultural dynamics in the South African Middle Stone Age (2017) (64)
Human remains from Blombos Cave, South Africa: (1997-1998 excavations). (2000) (61)
Identifying the collector : Evidence for human processing of the Cape dune mole-rat, Bathyergus suillus, from Blombos Cave, southern Cape, South Africa (1997) (57)
Diachronic Change within the Still Bay at Blombos Cave, South Africa (2015) (56)
Tortoise taphonomy and tortoise butchery patterns at Blombos Cave, South Africa (2014) (51)
Climate, Environment and Early Human Innovation: Stable Isotope and Faunal Proxy Evidence from Archaeological Sites (98-59ka) in the Southern Cape, South Africa (2016) (50)
Mussel Drying and Food Storage in the Late Holocene, SW Cape, South Africa (1994) (50)
Early Evidence for the Extensive Heat Treatment of Silcrete in the Howiesons Poort at Klipdrift Shelter (Layer PBD, 65 ka), South Africa (2016) (50)
The Small Mammal Sequence from the c. 76 – 72 ka Still Bay Levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa – Taphonomic and Palaeoecological Implications for Human Behaviour (2016) (46)
Chapter 4. Middle Stone Age engravings and their significance to the debate on the emergence of symbolic material culture (2011) (46)
Additional human remains from Blombos Cave, South Africa: (1999-2000 excavations). (2002) (45)
WINDS OF CHANGE: PALAEOENVIRONMENTS, MATERIAL CULTURE AND HUMAN BEHAVIOUR IN THE LATE PLEISTOCENE (~77 ka-48 ka ago) IN THE WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA (2008) (44)
From the origin of language to the diversification of languages (2009) (35)
Blombos Cave: Middle Stone Age ochre differentiation through FTIR, ICP OES, ED XRF and XRD (2016) (33)
Occupational intensity and environmental changes during the Howiesons Poort at Klipdrift Shelter, southern Cape, South Africa (2016) (32)
Assessing the Accidental Versus Deliberate Colour Modification of Shell Beads: a Case Study on Perforated Nassarius kraussianus from Blombos Cave Middle Stone Age levels (2015) (31)
Holocene Prehistory of the Southern Cape, South Africa: Excavations at Blombos Cave and the Blombosfontein Nature Reserve (2008) (31)
Nutritional values of tortoises relative to ungulates from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa: implications for foraging and social behaviour. (2014) (30)
Subsistence strategies in the southern Cape during the Howiesons Poort: Taphonomic and zooarchaeological analyses of Klipdrift Shelter, South Africa (2016) (30)
Intra-Site Variability in the Still Bay Fauna at Blombos Cave: Implications for Explanatory Models of the Middle Stone Age Cultural and Technological Evolution (2015) (30)
Holocene archaeology of the coastal Garcia State Forest, Southern Cape, South Africa (1995) (29)
From the origin of language to the diversification of language. What can archaeology and palaeoanthropology say (2009) (28)
Techno-Cultural Characterization of the MIS 5 (c. 105 – 90 Ka) Lithic Industries at Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa (2015) (27)
The chronological, sedimentary and environmental context for the archaeological deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa (2020) (25)
Characterising pigments on 30 000-year-old portable art from Apollo 11 Cave, Karas Region, southern Namibia (2016) (25)
Large mammal remains from the 100 KA middle stone age layers of blombos cave, South Africa (2016) (25)
MAKING SENSE OF SPACE AT DUNEFIELD MIDDEN CAMPSITE, WESTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA* (2012) (24)
Terrestrial gastropods from Blombos Cave, South Africa: Research potential (2012) (24)
A human deciduous molar from the Middle Stone Age (Howiesons Poort) of Klipdrift Shelter, South Africa. (2015) (24)
Subsistence strategies during the Late Pleistocene in the southern Cape of South Africa: Comparing the Still Bay of Blombos Cave with the Howiesons Poort of Klipdrift Shelter. (2017) (22)
Chapter 3. The origin of symbolically mediated behaviour: From antagonistic scenarios to a unified research strategy (2011) (21)
Using Trampling Modification to Infer Occupational Intensity During the Still Bay at Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa (2018) (21)
Microstratigraphic preservation of ancient faunal and hominin DNA in Pleistocene cave sediments (2021) (19)
Heat-induced alteration of glauconitic minerals in the Middle Stone Age levels of Blombos Cave, South Africa: Implications for evaluating site structure and burning events (2017) (19)
Small mammals from Marine Isotope Stage 5 at Klasies River, South Africa–Reconstructing the local palaeoenvironment (2017) (19)
Rock Hyraxes (Procavia capensis) from Middle Stone Age Levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa (2014) (16)
Environment versus behaviour: Zooarchaeological and taphonomic analyses of fauna from the Still Bay layers at Blombos Cave, South Africa (2019) (16)
The Origins of Symbolism, Spirituality & Shamans: Exploring Middle Stone Age Material Culture in South Africa (2009) (14)
Geoarchaeological investigation of occupation deposits in Blombos Cave in South Africa indicate changes in site use and settlement dynamics in the southern Cape during MIS 5b-4 (2020) (13)
The Howiesons Poort lithic sequence of Klipdrift Shelter, southern Cape, South Africa (2018) (11)
Pleistocene figurative 'art mobilier' from Apollo 11 cave, Karas region, Southern Namibia (2015) (11)
Archeology and the language-ready brain (2013) (8)
Becoming Human: Archaeology of the Sub-Saharan Middle Stone Age (2014) (8)
Material culture and language (2013) (7)
What processes sparked off symbolic representations? A reply to Hodgson and an alternative perspective (2019) (7)
Shellfish exploitation during the Oakhurst at Klipdrift Cave, southern Cape, South Africa (2019) (5)
Style, Symbolism, and Complex Technology: The Middle Stone Age in Southern Africa (2012) (5)
The Technology of the Early Oakhurst Lithic Techno-Complex from Klipdrift Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa (2017) (5)
Origins of symbolic behavior (2014) (4)
Differential accumulation of large mammal remains by carnivores and humans during the Middle Stone Age in the Eastern and Western Cape, South Africa (2021) (3)
Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave , South Afiica : implications for the origin of symbolism and language (2004) (3)
Later Stone Age human hair from Vaalkrans Shelter, Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, reveals genetic affinity to Khoe groups. (2021) (2)
Variability in Hunting Behaviour During the Middle Stone Age in the Eastern and Western Cape of South Africa (2022) (2)
Blombos Cave: The Middle Stone Age Levels (2020) (1)
Hidden in plain sight: A microanalytical study of a Middle Stone Age ochre piece trapped inside a micromorphological block sample (2020) (1)
U-TH BURIAL DATING OF OSTRICH EGGSHELLS: A NOVEL APPROACH TO DATING AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SEQUENCES BEYOND THE 14C LIMIT (2017) (1)
The engraved ostrich eggshell from the Howiesons Poort layers from Klipdrift Shelter, southern Cape, South Africa (2016) (1)
The Centre for Early Human Behaviour (EHB) at the University of Bergen: A transdisciplinary exploration into the evolution of homo sapiens behaviour (2017) (0)
Rhinoceros from the Middle Stone Age in the Eastern and Western Cape of South Africa (2021) (0)
Mineralogical and geochemical investigation of Middle Stone Age soils at the Blombos Cave in South Africa (2016) (0)
Large mammal exploitation during the c. 14–11 ka Oakhurst techno-complex at Klipdrift Cave, South Africa (2020) (0)
New archaeological excavations of Later and Middle Stone Age deposits at the Klipdrift complex, southern Cape, South Africa: 2010-2013 (2016) (0)
The 100,000–77,000-Year Old Middle Stone Age Micromammal Sequence from Blombos Cave, South Africa: Local Climatic Stability or a Tale of Predator Bias? (2021) (0)
Single-grain OSL dating of the Howiesons Poort layers at Klipdrift Shelter, Southern Cape, South Africa (2016) (0)
Late Pleistocene Techno-traditions in Southern Africa: A Review of the Still Bay and Howiesons Poort, c. 75–59 ka (2012) (0)
Investigating site formation processes in Blombos Cave, South-Africa – a geoarchaeological and micro-contextual approach. (2017) (0)
Tortoises as indicators of diet, site formation, and palaeoenvironments in the Middle Stone Age record of the Southern African coast (2015) (0)
Rock Hyraxes (Procavia capensis) from Middle Stone Age Levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa (2014) (0)
The Technology of the Early Oakhurst Lithic Techno-Complex from Klipdrift Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa (2017) (0)
Early humans recipe for processing plants foods at Blombos Cave, South Africa (85-82 ka) (2020) (0)
Using Trampling Modification to Infer Occupational Intensity During the Still Bay at Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa (2018) (0)
Report on the 2007-2010 archaeological excavations at Blombos Cave, southern Cape, South Africa and update on current research with regards to the Blombos site and materials. (2011) (0)
An abstract drawing from the 73,000-year-old levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa (2018) (0)

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