Christopher Henshilwood | |
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![]() Christopher Henshilwood at Blombos Cave | |
Born | Christopher Stuart Henshilwood |
Alma mater | University of Cape Town University of Cambridge |
Children | Bronwen henshilwood and Nicholas henshilwood |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Archaeology |
Institutions | University of Bergen University of the Witwatersrand |
Thesis | Holocene archaeology of the coastal Garcia State Forest, southern Cape, South Africa (1995) |
Website | Christopher Henshilwood at WITS Christopher Henshilwood at Bergen |
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.[1] Henshilwood and his work have been featured on National Geographic[2][3][4] and CNN Inside Africa.[5]
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