Christopher Henshilwood

Christopher Stuart Henshilwood is a South African archaeologist. He has been Professor of African Archeology at the University of Bergen since 2007 and, since 2008, Professor at the Chair of "The Origins of Modern Human Behavior" 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.[1] Henshilwood and his work have been featured on National Geographic[2][3][4] and CNN Inside Africa.[5]

Christopher Henshilwood
Christopher Henshilwood at Blombos Cave
Alma materUniversity of Cape Town
University of Cambridge
Scientific career
FieldsArchaeology
InstitutionsUniversity of Bergen
University of the Witwatersrand
ThesisHolocene archaeology of the coastal Garcia State Forest, southern Cape, South Africa (1995)
WebsiteChristopher Henshilwood at WITS
Christopher Henshilwood at Bergen

Education and career

Henshilwood completed his BA (with distinction in Archaeology) from the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 1989, BA.Hons (with distinction) from UCT in 1990 and PhD (Archaeology) from the University of Cambridge in 1995, with a thesis entitled "Holocene archaeology of the coastal Garcia State Forest, southern Cape, South Africa". He completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at UCT from 1996 to 1997.[6][7]

He was awarded research funding from the Anglo American Chairman's Fund from 1998 to 2001 for research on “Modern Human Origins”. During this time and until 2004 he worked as an adjunct associate professor at the department of anthropology, State University of New York, Stony Brook. From there in 2002 he moved to the University of Bergen in Norway where he was appointed as a professor at the Centre for Development Studies in the Department of Archaeology. Concurrently he acted as research member at the University of Bordeaux, France for the programme "Origine de l'Homme, du langage et des langue" (The origin of man, speech and language).[6][7]

Awards and recognition

Television appearances
  • 2010 – NHK Japanese Broadcasting Corporation: Film for TV made with Henshilwood at Blombos Cave
  • 2010 – Film made at Cape Point Nature Reserve with Henshilwood on the 'Origins of H. sapiens' for Foster Brother Film Productions, South Africa.
  • 2009 – TV film made with Henshilwood at Blombos Cave for the Swedish Broadcasting Society Directed by Martin Widman and presented by Lasse Berg
  • 2008 – Film made at Blombos Cave with Henshilwood in March, 2008 for display in the ‘Anne & Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins’, American Museum of Natural History, New York.
  • 2008 – Film made at De Hoop Nature Reserve with Henshilwood directed by Alan Wilcox on Human Evolution in Africa. SABC Production.

Selected publications
  • Henshilwood, CS et al. (2002). "Emergence of modern human behavior: Middle Stone Age engravings from South Africa". Science. 295 (5558): 1278-1280.
  • C. Henshilwood et al.: A 100,000 Year Old Ochre Processing Workshop at Blombos Cave, South Africa. In: Science, Band 334, Nr. 6053, 2011, S. 219–222, DOI:10.1126/science.1211535
  • C. Henshilwood et al.: Middle Stone Age shell beads from South Africa. In: Science, Band 384, Nr. 5669, 2004, S. 404, DOI:10.1126/science.1095905
  • with Curtis W. Marean: The origin of modern human behaviour: A review and critique of models and test implications. In: Current Anthropology, Band 44, Nr. 5, 2003, S. 627–651, DOI:10.1086/377665
  • C. Henshilwood et al.: Blombos Cave, southern Cape, South Africa: Preliminary report on the 1992 – 1999 excavations of the Middle Stone Age levels. In: Journal of Archaeological Science, Band 28, Nr. 4, 2001, S. 421–448, DOI:10.1006/jasc.2000.0638
  • C. Henshilwood et al.: 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. In: Journal of Human Evolution, Band 41, Nr. 6, 2001, S. 631–678, DOI:10.1006/jhev.2001.0515

See also

References
  1. Christopher S. Henshilwood et al.: Emergence of Modern Human Behavior: Middle Stone Age Engravings from South Africa. In: Science, Band 295, 2002, S. 1278–1280, doi:10.1126/science.1067575
  2. Than, Ker (15 October 2011). "Oldest "Art Studio" Found; Evidence of Early Chemistry". National Geographic News. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
  3. Walter, Chip (1 January 2015). "Origins of Art". National Geographic Magazine. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
  4. Blakemore, Erin (12 September 2018). "73,000-Year-Old Doodle May Be World's Oldest Drawing". National Geographic Science & Innovation. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
  5. Barnett, Errol (14 May 2013). "African roots of the human family tree". CNN. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
  6. "Christopher S Henshilwood - University of the Witwatersrand". Academia.edu. 3 August 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
  7. "Professor Christopher Stuart Henshilwood". The M&G Online. 28 August 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
  8. Diko, Makia L. (25 September 2015). "South African scholars make Thomson Reuters 'Highly Cited Researchers 2014' (with corrigendum)". South African Journal of Science. 111 (9/10): 3. doi:10.17159/sajs.2015/a0121. ISSN 1996-7489. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
  9. "2002 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 8 February 2002". South African History Online. 17 June 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
  10. The University of the Witwatersrand (18 July 2018). "2018-07 - Mandela and the treasure in the Blombos Cave". Wits University. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
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