Christopher Henshilwood

Christopher Henshilwood
Christopher Henshilwood at Blombos Cave
Born
Christopher Stuart Henshilwood
Alma materUniversity of Cape Town
University of Cambridge
ChildrenBronwen henshilwood and Nicholas henshilwood
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

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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