Christopher Henshilwood
Christopher Stuart Henshilwood is a South African archaeologist. He has been Professor of African Archeology at the University of Bergen since 2007 and, since 2008, Professor at the Chair of "The Origins of Modern Human Behavior" 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. Henshilwood and his work have been featured on National Geographic and CNN Inside Africa. Education and career. Henshilwood completed his BA (with distinction in Archaeology) from the  University of Cape Town (UCT) in 1989, BA.Hons (with distinction) from UCT in 1990 and PhD (Archaeology) from the University of Cambridge in 1995, with a thesis entitled ""Holocene archaeology of the coastal Garcia State Forest, southern Cape, South Africa"". He completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at UCT from 1996 to 1997. He was awarded research funding from the Anglo American Chairman's Fund from 1998 to 2001 for research on “Modern Human Origins”. During this time and until 2004 he worked as an adjunct associate professor at the department of anthropology, State University of New York, Stony Brook. From  there in 2002 he moved to the University of Bergen in Norway where he was appointed as a professor at the Centre for Development Studies in the Department of Archaeology. Concurrently he acted as research member at the University of Bordeaux, France for the programme ""Origine de l'Homme, du langage et des langue"" (The origin of man, speech and language). He currently leads the Center of Excellence SAPIENce at the University of Bergen. The center researches early human behavior and includes a team of multidisciplinary scholars, including paleoclimatologists Nele Meckler and Eystein Jansen and psychologists Andrea Bender and Kenneth Hugdahl