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List of works by Christopher Henshilwood

A 100,000-year-old ochre-processing workshop at Blombos Cave, South Africa

scientific article published in October 2011

A human deciduous molar from the Middle Stone Age (Howiesons Poort) of Klipdrift Shelter, South Africa

scientific article published on 13 April 2015

A revised chronology for pastoralism in southernmost Africa: new evidence of sheep at c. 2000 b.p. from Blombos Cave, South Africa

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

scientific article

Additional human remains from Blombos Cave, South Africa: (1999-2000 excavations)

scientific article (publication date: March 2002)

An abstract drawing from the 73,000-year-old levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa

scientific article published on 12 September 2018

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

scientific article (publication date: December 2001)

An engraved bone fragment from c. 70,000-year-old Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa: implications for the origin of symbolism and language

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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

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Archeology and the language-ready brain

scholarly article by Benoît Dubreuil published in September 2013

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

scholarly article by F. d'Errico et al published 20 November 2013 in Archaeometry

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

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Blombos Cave: Middle Stone Age ochre differentiation through FTIR, ICP OES, ED XRF and XRD

scholarly article by Stanley Moyo published in June 2016

Blombos Cave: The Middle Stone Age Levels

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

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Chapter 4. Middle Stone Age engravings and their significance to the debate on the emergence of symbolic material culture

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Characterising pigments on 30 000-year-old portable art from Apollo 11 Cave, Karas Region, southern Namibia

scholarly article by Riaan F. Rifkin published in February 2016

Climate, Environment and Early Human Innovation: Stable Isotope and Faunal Proxy Evidence from Archaeological Sites (98-59ka) in the Southern Cape, South Africa

scientific article

Diachronic Change within the Still Bay at Blombos Cave, South Africa

scientific article published on 2 July 2015

Early Evidence for the Extensive Heat Treatment of Silcrete in the Howiesons Poort at Klipdrift Shelter (Layer PBD, 65 ka), South Africa

scientific article

Early use of pressure flaking on lithic artifacts at Blombos Cave, South Africa

scientific article

Emergence of modern human behavior: Middle Stone Age engravings from South Africa.

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 31 May 2009

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

scientific article published on 22 April 2006

From the origin of language to the diversification of languages: What can archaeology and palaeoanthropology say?

Heat-induced alteration of glauconitic minerals in the Middle Stone Age levels of Blombos Cave, South Africa: Implications for evaluating site structure and burning events

scholarly article by Magnus M. Haaland published in October 2017

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

scientific article

Identifying early modern human ecological niche expansions and associated cultural dynamics in the South African Middle Stone Age.

scientific article

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

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Inferring animal size from the unidentified long bones from the Middle Stone Age layers at Blombos Cave, South Africa ⬇️

scientific article published in 2014

Intra-Site Variability in the Still Bay Fauna at Blombos Cave: Implications for Explanatory Models of the Middle Stone Age Cultural and Technological Evolution

scientific article

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

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Large mammal exploitation during the c. 14–11 ka Oakhurst techno-complex at Klipdrift Cave, South Africa

scientific article published on 27 May 2020

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

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Material culture and language

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Microstratigraphic preservation of ancient faunal and hominin DNA in Pleistocene cave sediments

scientific article published in 2021

Middle Stone Age shell beads from South Africa

scientific article published in April 2004

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

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 11 January 2014

Occupational intensity and environmental changes during the Howiesons Poort at Klipdrift Shelter, southern Cape, South Africa

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

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Shellfish exploitation during the Oakhurst at Klipdrift Cave, southern Cape, South Africa

scientific article published in 2019

Small mammals from Marine Isotope Stage 5 at Klasies River, South Africa–Reconstructing the local palaeoenvironment

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

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Subsistence strategies during the Late Pleistocene in the southern Cape of South Africa: Comparing the Still Bay of Blombos Cave with the Howiesons Poort of Klipdrift Shelter

scientific article published on 18 May 2017

Subsistence strategies in the southern Cape during the Howiesons Poort: Taphonomic and zooarchaeological analyses of Klipdrift Shelter, South Africa

scholarly article by Jerome P. Reynard published in June 2016

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

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

scientific article published on April 5, 2011

Techno-Cultural Characterization of the MIS 5 (c. 105 - 90 Ka) Lithic Industries at Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa

scientific article published on 18 November 2015

The 100,000–77,000-Year Old Middle Stone Age Micromammal Sequence from Blombos Cave, South Africa: Local Climatic Stability or a Tale of Predator Bias? ⬇️

scientific article published on 7 July 2021

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology

The Howiesons Poort lithic sequence of Klipdrift Shelter, southern Cape, South Africa

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

The Small Mammal Sequence from the c. 76 - 72 ka Still Bay Levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa - Taphonomic and Palaeoecological Implications for Human Behaviour

scientific article

The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort at Sibudu and Blombos: Understanding Middle Stone Age Technologies

scientific article

The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort, 77–59 ka: Symbolic Material Culture and the Evolution of the Mind during the African Middle Stone Age

scientific article (publication date: June 2011)

The Still Bay points of Blombos Cave (South Africa)

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The Technology of the Early Oakhurst Lithic Techno-Complex from Klipdrift Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa

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The origin of symbolically mediated behaviour: From antagonistic scenarios to a unified research strategy

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

scientific article published on 14 March 2013

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

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Using Trampling Modification to Infer Occupational Intensity During the Still Bay at Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa ⬇️

scientific article published in March 2018

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