Christopher Stuart Henshilwood - Curriculum Vitae#

• 1999-2004 Adjunct Associate Professor – Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, Stony Brook.
• 2002 - 2007 Research Member - French CNRS program ‘Origine de l'Homme, du langage et des langue’, Bordeaux University, France.
• 2008 - 2022 Professor of African Prehistory – Institutt for arkeologi, historie, kulturvitenskap og religionsvitenskap, University of Bergen, Norway.
• 2007 - 2022 Distinguished Professor and Chair : South African Research Chair Initiative (SARChI) – Chair in Origins of Modern Human behaviour, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
• 2017 - 2026 Professor & Director: Research Council of Norway Centre of Excellence: SFF Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE): 2017-2026, University of Bergen

Researcher ID
• Thomson Reuters Web of Science ResearcherID: K-3806-2014. Link http://www.researcherid.com/rid/K-3806-2014
• ORCID ID:Link http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2818-293X
• Research Gate: Christopher Henshilwood: Link https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher_Henshilwood?ev=hdr_xprf
• Academia.edu: Christopher Henshilwood: Link https://uib.academia.edu/ChrisHenshilwood

RESEARCH PUBLICATION SUMMARY

• NRF rating: A-1 (2021)
  
• European Research Council Rating: A1 (2010)
  
• Total number of Journal Publications: (Published & In press): 72
  
• Total number of chapters in books: 19
  
• Total number of books: 2
  
• H-factor: 43
  
• Total citations: 10653
  

CURRENT AND PREVIOUS RESEARCH GRANTS (2004 – 2018)
• Research Council of Norway Centre of Excellence in Early Human Behaviour 2017-2026
• South African Research Council Chair Initiative: Chair in ‘Origins of modern human behaviour’ at University of the Witwatersrand funded by National Research Foundation/ Department of Science and Technology, South Africa (2008-2022)
• Principal Investigator for European Research Council, FP7 Advanced Grant - TRACSYMBOLS Project Grant 2010 - 2015
• Franco/South Africa (National Research Foundation grant (2008 – 2010).
• Leakey Foundation, (1997, 1998, 1999, 2008)
• Norwegian Research Council /National Research Foundation – South Africa (2007-2010)
• Wenner Gren (1998,1999, 2007/2008)
• National Geographic Research and Exploration Grants (2006-2007, 2012-2014)
• University of Bergen Research Grant (2008-2015)
• National Science Foundation Grant, Stony Brook University, USA (1997-2000)

CREDITS & AWARDS
National (South Africa)
• Dr. Nelson Mandela: accepts patronage of the Blombos Cave Project, 2000.
• President Thabo Mbeki: Honourable mention in the ‘The State of the Nation’ address to the joint sitting of the Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, South Africa, February 8, 2002 and presentation by PI of Blombos Cave artefacts to Members of the Houses of Parliament.
• Academy of Science of South Africa – admitted in 2009
• The 75 000 year old engraved ochre and beads from Blombos Cave officially recognised as ‘Symbols of South Africa Culture’. In honour of this recognition a set of stamps featuring these artefacts was issued by the South Africa Post Office in 2013.
• A-rated Scientist by National Research Foundation, South Africa, 2015-2020.
• Vice-Chancellors Research Award, 2015. University of the Witwatersrand. Listed as the pinnacle of recognition in the realm of research achievement at the University.
• Ranked in Top 10 of South Africa’s most influential scientific minds for 2002–2012. Award published in 2014, South African Journal of Science http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2015/a0121
• A1-rated Scientist by National Research Foundation, South Africa, 2021-2025.

International
• Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques medal and order awarded by the French Prime Minister in 2004 for distinguished contributions to French education and culture; conferred, June, 2005.
• Colenso Invited Visiting Fellow, St. John’s College, Cambridge, 2013
• Academia Europaea - Elected Member in 2013.
• Thompson Reuters Lifetime Research Award in 2014 for being among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and year of publication for the period 2002 - 2012.
• Thompson Reuters Research Award for being in the top 1% most cited in the ‘Social Sciences and General’ Category for 2013 and 2014.
• Thompson Reuters Award for inclusion in ‘The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds’ in 2014
• Thompson Reuters Research Award for being in the top 1% most cited in the ‘Social Sciences and General’ Category for 2016
• Elected as Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, April 2020
• Awarded the Hjernekraftprisen (Brain Power Award) 2020 from the The Norwegian Association of Researchers (Forskerforbundet) for research, development and outreach

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS (2018 – 2020)

PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS
1. Badenhorst, S., Ezeimo, J., van Niekerk K.L., Henshilwood, C.S. 2021. Differential accumulation of large mammal remains by carnivores and humans during the Middle Stone Age in the Eastern and Western Cape, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 35 (2021) 102752, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102752
2. Larbey, C., van Niekerk, K.L., Henshilwood, C.S., Jones, M.K. submitted. Early humans recipe for processing plant foods at Blombos Cave, South Africa (85-82 ka). Nature Communications
3. Coutinho, A., Malmström, H., Edlund, H., Henshilwood, C.S., van Niekerk, K.L., Lombard, M., Schlebusch, C.M., Jakobsson, M. Submitted. Later Stone Age human hair from Vaalkrans Shelter, Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, reveals genetic affinity to Khoe groups. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
4. Haaland, M.M., Miller, C.E., Unhammer, O.F., Reynard, J.P., van Niekerk, K.L., Ligouis, B., Mentzer, S.M., Henshilwood, C.S. 2020. Geoarchaeological investigation of occupation deposits in Blombos Cave, South Africa indicate changes in site use and settlement dynamics in the southern Cape during MIS 5b-4 (94 – 72 ka). Quaternary Research. 1–54. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2020.75
5. Haaland, M. M., Strauss, A.M., Velliky, E.C. Mentzer, S.M., Miller, M.E., van Niekerk, K.L., Henshilwood, C.S. 2020. Hidden in plain sight: a microanalytical study of a Middle Stone Age ochre piece trapped inside a micromorphological block sample. Geoarchaeology. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21830
6. Mellet, E., Colagè, I., Bender, A., Henshilwood, C.S., Hugdahl, K., Lindstrøm, T.C., d'Errico, F. 2019. What processes sparked off symbolic representations? A reply to Hodgson and an alternative perspective. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.102043
7. Discamps, E., Henshilwood, C.S., van Niekerk, K.L. 2020. Large mammal exploitation during the c. 14-11 ka Oakhurst techno-complex at Klipdrift Cave, South Africa. South African Journal of Science. https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2020/6754
8. Jacobs, Z., Jones, B.G., Cawthra, H.C., Henshilwood, C.S., Roberts, R.G. 2020. The chronological, sedimentary and environmental context for the archaeological deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.07.032
9. Ryano, K., van Niekerk, K.L., Wurz, S., Henshilwood, C.S. 2019. Shellfish exploitation during the Oakhurst at Klipdrift Cave, southern Cape, South Africa. South African Journal of Science, 115, 9/10, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2019/5578
10. Reynard, J.P., Henshilwood, C.S. 2018. Environment versus behaviour: zooarchaeological and taphonomic analyses of fauna from the Still Bay layers at Blombos Cave, South Africa. Quaternary International. 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.10.040.
11. Henshilwood, C.S., d’Errico, F., van Niekerk, K.L., Dayet, l., Queffelec, A., Pollarolo, L. 2018. An abstract drawing from the 73,000 year old levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa. Nature 562 , 115–118. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0514-3.
12. Douze, K., Delagnes, A., Wurz, S., Henshilwood, C.S. 2018.The Howiesons Poort lithic sequence of Klipdrift Shelter, southern Cape, South Africa PlosOne. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206238
13. Reynard, J.P., Henshilwood, C.S. 2018. Environment versus behaviour: zooarchaeological and taphonomic analyses of fauna from the Still Bay layers at Blombos Cave, South Africa. Quaternary International.
14. Reynard, J.P., Henshilwood, C.S. 2018. Using trampling modification to infer occupational intensity during the Still Bay at Blombos Cave, southern Cape, South Africa, African Archaeological Review 35:1–19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-018-9286-2
15. Nel,T.H., Wurz, S., Henshilwood, C.S. 2018. Small mammals from Marine Isotope Stage 5 at Klasies River, South Africa–Reconstructing the local palaeoenvironment. Quaternary International 471: 6-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.08.074.