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CHRISTOPHER
STUART HENSHILWOOD
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- CURRENT
POSITIONS
• Professor – Department of Archaeology & Centre
for Development Studies, University of Bergen, Norway.
• Adjunct Associate Professor – Department of Anthropology,
State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA
• Academic Director: University of Bergen’s African
Field School program and SUNY at Stony Brook’s field school
program in South Africa
• Research Associateship – Iziko Museums of Cape Town
• CEO – African Heritage Research Institute; Southern
Cape Archaeology Trust; Cape Field School cc (Heritage Resource
Consultants).
• Research Member - French CNRS program ‘Origine de
l'Homme, du langage et des langue’ based at Bordeaux University,
France
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- CONTACT
DETAILS
Work & Postal Address: African Heritage Research Institute,
167, Buitenkant Street, Gardens, 8001, Cape Town, South Africa.
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- DEGREES
B.A. (Distinction in Archaeology), University
of Cape Town, 1989
B.A. Hons. (with Distinction), University of
Cape Town, 1990
Ph. D. (Archaeology), University of Cambridge,
U.K. 1995
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NATIONAL
AWARDS
Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques,
France, 2004. |
LOCAL
AWARDS
- Honourable
mention in the The State of the Nation address by the President
of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the joint sitting of the Houses
of Parliament, Cape Town, February 8, 2002.
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- SOCIETY
MEMBERSHIPS
Southern African Association of Archaeologists; Society for Africanist
Archaeologists; South African Archaeological Society; Cambridge
Philosophical Society, Association of Heritage Assessment Practitioners.
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- JOURNAL
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed Journals
Published
• Henshilwood, C.S.
& Marean, C.W. 2003. The origin of modern human behaviour:
A review and critique of models and test implications. Current
Anthropology 44 (5): 627-651.
• d’Errico F., Henshilwood C., Lawson G., Vanhaeren
M., Soressi M., Bresson F., Tillier A.M., Maureille B., Nowell
A., Backwell L., Lakarra J.A., Julien M. 2003. The search
for the origin of symbolism, music and language: a multidisciplinary
endeavour. Journal of World Prehistory, 17 (1): 1-70.
• Henshilwood, C.S., d’Errico, F., Yates, R.,
Jacobs, Z., Tribolo, C., Duller, G.A.T., Mercier N., Sealy,
J.C., Valladas, H., Watts, I. & Wintle, A.G. 2002. Emergence
of Modern Human Behaviour: Middle Stone Age engravings from
South Africa. Science 295:1278-1280.
• Grine, F.E. & Henshilwood, C.S. 2002. Additional
Human Remains from Blombos Cave, South Africa: (1999-2000
excavations). Journal of Human Evolution 42: 293-302.
• Henshilwood, C.S., Sealy, J.C., Yates, R.J., Cruz-Uribe,
K., Goldberg, P., Grine, F.E., , Klein, R.G., Poggenpoel,
C., van Niekerk, K.L., Watts, I. 2001a. Blombos Cave, southern
Cape, South Africa: Preliminary report on the 1992 –
1999 excavations of the Middle Stone Age levels. Journal of
Archaeological Science 28(5): 421-448.
• Henshilwood, C.S., d’Errico, F.E., Marean, C.W.,
Milo, R.G., Yates, R. 2001b. 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.
Journal of Human Evolution 41:631-678.
• d’Errico, F., Henshilwood, C.S., & Nilssen,
P. 2001. An engraved bone fragment from ca. 75 kyr Middle
Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa: implications
for the origin of symbolism . Antiquity. 75, 309-18.
• Grine, F.E., Henshilwood, C.S. & Sealy, J.C. 2000.
Human remains from Blombos Cave, South Africa: (1997-1998
excavations). Journal of Human Evolution, 37: 755-765.
• Henshilwood, C.S. & Sealy, J.C. 1997. Bone artifacts
from the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, southern Cape,
South Africa. Current Anthropology 38(5):890-895.
• Henshilwood, C.S. 1997 Identifying the collector:
Evidence for human consumption of the Cape dune mole-rat,
Bathyergus suillus, from Blombos Cave, southern Cape, South
Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 24:659-662.
• Henshilwood, C. S. 1996. A revised chronology for
the arrival of pastoralism in southernmost Africa: new evidence
of sheep at ca. 2000 b.p. from Blombos Cave, South Africa.
Antiquity 70:945-949.
• Henshilwood, C.S., Nilssen, P. & Parkington, J.
1994. Mussel drying and food storage in the Late Holocene,
sw Cape, South Africa. Journal of Field Archaeology 21:103-109.
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- In press
•Henshilwood, C.S., d’Errico,
F., Vanhaeren, M., van Niekerk, K., Jacobs, Z. (in press). Middle
Stone Age shell beads from South Africa. Science.
• Henshilwood, C.S. & d’Errico, F. (in press).
Being modern in the Middle Stone Age: Individuals and innovation.
(eds. C. Gamble & M. Porr). The Individual Hominid in Context:
Archaeological Investigations of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic
landscapes, locales and artifacts. Routledge (Taylor Francis).
• Henshilwood, C.S. (in press). The origins of modern human
behaviour - exploring alternatives. Volume in honour of Randi
Haaland, University of Bergen, Norway. BAR series.
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- Television &
Radio (selected sample)
• BBC Television: Horizon Series. February, 2003. “The
day we learned to think”. (Filmed at Blombos Cave). Producer
Dan Clifton.
• BBC Television. February, 2002. “Where we came from”
– series on Human Origins presented by Clive Gamble. Episode
filmed with PI at Blombos Cave.
• BBC Television, February, 2000. Part 5 of the Apeman series
- Modern Human Origins (filmed at Blombos Cave and Klasies River).
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- Popular Publications
(selected sample)
• ‘Dawn of humans’, National Geographic Magazine,
July, 2000 (pp.97-101).
• ‘Earliest Evidence for Modern Human Behaviour’
National Geographic Magazine, January 1999.
• “The Bone People”, U.S. News & World Report,
November 19, 2001
• “Sur les traces de l’Homo symbolicus”,
La Recherche Hors Serie, No 4, Novembre 2000.
• “Cave near Stilbaai yields up world’s oldest
artwork”, Business Day, January 11, 2002.
• “African Artifacts Suggest an Earlier Start of Modern
Human Behaviour”, The New York Times, December 2, 2001.
• “Une pierre gravee corrige l’histoire de l’Homme
– Quarante mille ans avant les grottes ornees d’Europe,
a Blombos en Afrique du Sud, l’homme gravait des lignes
enigmatiques sur de l’ocre”, Le Figaro, Mardi 22,
Janvier 2002.
• “Cave art dates dawn of creativity – Ochre
engravings found in South Africa suggest that ‘modern’
man existed 70,000 years ago”, The Daily Telegraph, January
11, 2002.
• “South African cave reveals the world’s oldest
works of art’, The Independent, 11 January 2002.
• “World’s first artwork found in Africa”,
The Gaurdian, January 11, 2002.
• “Scratches that trace the ascent of man”,
The Times, January 11, 2002.
• “Quand ‘Homo sapiens sapiens’ jouait
les artistes en Afrique du Sud”, Le Monde/Mercredi, 16 Janvier
2002.
• “Africa – the cradle of reason”, The
Star, January 23, 2002.
• “World stunned as Cape cave delivers big find on
early man”, Cape Argus, January 11, 2002.
• “By Blombos het mens eerste begin dink”, Rapport,
13 Januarie 2002.
• “Blombos kan teorie oor mens herskryf”, Die
Burger, 12 Januarie, 2002.
• “Afrika is mos wieg van beskawing”, Rapport,
25 November 2001.
• “Cape may be seat of modern man”, Cape Argus,
November 14, 2002.
• “Mens was al vroeg ‘modern’”,
De Standaard, 14 Januari, 2002.
• “Digging for the Roots of Culture – when did
our ancestors start behaving like modern humans?”, The Chronicle
of Higher Education, April 5, 2002.
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- Internet Publications
(selected sample)
• ’Oldest’ prehistoric art unearthed”,
BBC News, January 10, 2002. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1753000/1753326.stm
• “South African cave reveals the world’s oldest
works of art”, Independent, 11 January 2002. http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?dir=1&story=113869&host=1&printable=1
• “Carvings Spark Debate on Origin of Abstract Thought”,
Los Angeles Times, January 11, 2002. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-011102human.story
• “African Bone Tools Dispute Key Idea About Human
Evolution”, National Geographic News, November 8, 2001.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20011/11/11088_bonetool.html
• “Art history doubles”, Nature Science Update,
11 January 2002, http://www.nature.com/nsu/nsu_pf/020107/020107-11.html
• “Human Evolution – Ancient Engravings Push
Back Origin of Abstract Thought”, Scientific American, 11
January 2002, http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000629D0-B23F-1CCE-B4A8809EC588EEDF&sc=I100322
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- International invited
papers 2000-2003
• Henshilwood, C.S. 2003. The contribution of Blombos Cave
to an understanding of the origins of modern human behaviour.Conference
title “From Tools to Symbols. From Early Hominid to Modern
Humans”, Wits University, Johannesburg, 12th – 15th
March, 2003.
• Henshilwood, C.S. & Marean, C. 2003. The origin of
modern human behavior: a review and critique of the models and
their test implications. The Human Genome and Africa Conference,
Spier, Stellenbosch. 19th - 22nd March 2003.
• Henshilwood, C.S. The origins of modern human behaviour:
A new perspective from Africa. Anglo American Chairman’s
Fund Address. Johannesburg, July, 2002.
• Henshilwood, C.S. What do we know about the origins of
modern human behaviour. SA Museum invited lecture, South African
Museum, Cape Town, South Africa, January, 2002.
• Henshilwood, C.S. 2001. Archaeological evidence for the
origins of modern human behaviour. Bergen University, Norway.
October, 2001
• Henshilwood, C.S. 2001. The Blombos Cave evidence: does
it refute a European origin for modern human behaviour. September,
2001. Bordeaux University, France.
• Henshilwood, C.S. 2001. African evidence for the origins
of modern human behaviour. ASU, USA July, 2001
• Henshilwood, C.S., The origins of modern human behaviour:
a review of the African evidence. SUNY, New York, October, 2000.
• Henshilwood, C.S. The origins of symbolism. language and
modern behaviour: a review of the African evidence. University
of Connecticut, Connecticut, U.S.A., November, 2000.
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- Selected Conference
papers 2000-2002
• Henshilwood, C.S. & d’Errico. F. 2002. Archaeological
evidence for the origins of modern human behaviour, language and
symbolism. SafA conference, Tucson, USA.
• d'Errico F., Henshilwood, C., Soressi, M. 2002. Evidence
for symbolism and modern language in the MSA and in the Mousterian.
A discussion based on direct analysis of the relevant archaeological
record, Symposium Behavioral change in the MP/MSA. Society for
American Archaeology. Denver April 2002.
• Tribolo C., Mercier N., Valladas H., Selo M., Joron J-L,
Reyss J-L, Henshilwood C., Sealy J., Yates R. 2002. Internal dose
rate in quartzites: the case of Blombos Cave, South Africa LED
2002: 10th International conference on Luminescence and Electron
Spin Resonance Dating. 24-28 June, 2002, Reno (USA)
• Henshilwood, C.S. & van Niekerk, K.L. 2001. The earliest
archaeological evidence for fishing: identifying fish species
from Blombos Cave. Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, Durban, South
Africa, May, 2001.
• Henshilwood, C.S. 2000. An update on the Blombos Cave
excavations, 1999 & 2000. SAfA conference, Cambridge, U.K.,
July, 2000.
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- Selected Invited
Public Lectures 2000-2002
• Henshilwood, C.S. Reworking the African evidence for the
origins of modern human behaviour. .Still Bay Town Council invited
lecture, Still Bay, South Africa. April, 2002.
• Henshilwood, C.S. Excavations at Blombos Cave: a review
of the evidence. Still Bay Town Council invited lecture, Still
Bay, South Africa. December 2001.
• Henshilwood, C.S. Blombos Cave: rethinking the origins
of symbolism, language and modern behaviour: Friends of the Museum
invited lecture, South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa.
March 2001.
• Henshilwood, C.S. 2000. New evidence from Blombos Cave
and its implications for the origins of modern human behaviour.
South African Archaeological Society, South African Museum, April,
2000.
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