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  1. Klipdrift Shelter, southern Cape, South Africa: preliminary report on the Howiesons Poort layers

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, May 2014, Elsevier

    Christopher Henshilwood

  2. Rock Hyraxes (Procavia capensis) from Middle Stone Age Levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa

    Article • African Archaeological Review, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christopher Henshilwood

  3. Nutritional values of tortoises relative to ungulates from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa: Implications for foraging and social behaviour

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, February 2014, Elsevier

    Christopher Henshilwood

  4. Blombos Cave: The Middle Stone Age Levels

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christopher Henshilwood

  5. Tortoise taphonomy and tortoise butchery patterns at Blombos Cave, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, January 2014, Elsevier

    Christopher Henshilwood

  6. Assessing the Accidental Versus Deliberate Colour Modification of Shell Beads: a Case Study on PerforatedNassarius kraussianusfrom Blombos Cave Middle Stone Age levels

    Article • Archaeometry, November 2013, Wiley

    Christopher Henshilwood

  7. Archeology and the language-ready brain

    Article • Language and Cognition, September 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Christopher Henshilwood

  8. Thinking strings: Additional evidence for personal ornament use in the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, June 2013, Elsevier

    Christopher Henshilwood, Professor Francesco d'Errico

  9. 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

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, January 2013, Elsevier

    Christopher Henshilwood

  10. Late Pleistocene Techno-traditions in Southern Africa: A Review of the Still Bay and Howiesons Poort, c. 75–59 ka

    Article • Journal of World Prehistory, November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christopher Henshilwood

  11. Style, Symbolism, and Complex Technology: The Middle Stone Age in Southern Africa

    Article • Current Anthropology, February 2012, University of Chicago Press

    Christopher Henshilwood

  12. “Early” Symbolic Material Culture in South Africa

    Article • Current Anthropology, February 2012, University of Chicago Press

    Christopher Henshilwood

  13. A 100,000-Year-Old Ochre-Processing Workshop at Blombos Cave, South Africa

    Article • Science, October 2011, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Christopher Henshilwood

  14. The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort, 77–59 ka

    Article • Current Anthropology, June 2011, University of Chicago Press

    Christopher Henshilwood

  15. Taphonomic analysis of the Middle Stone Age larger mammal faunal assemblage from Blombos Cave, southern Cape, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, June 2011, Elsevier

    Christopher Henshilwood

  16. Holocene book review: Christopher Stuart Henshilwood Holocene Prehistory of the Southern Cape, South Africa: Excavations at Blombos Cave and the Blombosfontein Nature Reserve (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1860) Oxford: Archaeopre...

    Article • The Holocene, November 2010, SAGE Publications

    Christopher Henshilwood

  17. Early Use of Pressure Flaking on Lithic Artifacts at Blombos Cave, South Africa

    Article • Science, October 2010, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Christopher Henshilwood

  18. Engraved ochres from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, July 2009, Elsevier

    Christopher Henshilwood, Professor Francesco d'Errico

  19. The Still Bay points of Blombos Cave (South Africa)

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, February 2009, Elsevier

    Christopher Henshilwood

  20. Additional evidence for bone technology in the southern African Middle Stone Age

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, February 2007, Elsevier

    Christopher Henshilwood

  21. Extending the chronology of deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa, back to 140ka using optical dating of single and multiple grains of quartz

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, September 2006, Elsevier

    Christopher Henshilwood

  22. TL DATING OF BURNT LITHICS FROM BLOMBOS CAVE (SOUTH AFRICA): FURTHER EVIDENCE FOR THE ANTIQUITY OF MODERN HUMAN BEHAVIOUR*

    Article • Archaeometry, April 2006, Wiley

    Christopher Henshilwood

  23. Nassarius kraussianus shell beads from Blombos Cave: evidence for symbolic behaviour in the Middle Stone Age

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, January 2005, Elsevier

    Christopher Henshilwood, Professor Francesco d'Errico

  24. Middle Stone Age Shell Beads from South Africa

    Article • Science, April 2004, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Christopher Henshilwood

  25. The Origin of Modern Human Behavior

    Article • Current Anthropology, December 2003, University of Chicago Press

    Christopher Henshilwood

  26. Chirality and Biological Activity

    Article • January 2003, Wiley

    Christopher Henshilwood

  27. Additional human remains from Blombos Cave, South Africa: (1999–2000 excavations)

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, March 2002, Elsevier

    Christopher Henshilwood

  28. Emergence of Modern Human Behavior: Middle Stone Age Engravings from South Africa

    Article • Science, January 2002, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Christopher Henshilwood

  29. 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

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, December 2001, Elsevier

    Christopher Henshilwood, Professor Francesco d'Errico

  30. Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa: Preliminary Report on the 1992–1999 Excavations of the Middle Stone Age Levels

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, April 2001, Elsevier

    Christopher Henshilwood

  31. Erratum

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, April 2001, Elsevier

    Christopher Henshilwood

  32. Human remains from Blombos Cave, South Africa: (1997–1998 excavations)

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, June 2000, Elsevier

    Christopher Henshilwood

  33. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology

    Article • The South African Archaeological Bulletin, June 1998, JSTOR

    Christopher Henshilwood

  34. Bone Artefacts from the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa 1

    Article • Current Anthropology, December 1997, University of Chicago Press

    Christopher Henshilwood

  35. Identifying the Collector: Evidence for Human Processing of the Cape Dune Mole-Rat,Bathyergus suillus, from Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, July 1997, Elsevier

    Christopher Henshilwood

  36. Mussel Drying and Food Storage in the Late Holocene, SW Cape, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Field Archaeology, January 1994, JSTOR

    Christopher Henshilwood

  37. Mussel Drying and Food Storage in the Late Holocene, SW Cape, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Field Archaeology, January 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Christopher Henshilwood