Blar i Faculty of Humanities på forfatter "Henshilwood, Christopher Stuart"
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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?
Nel, Turid Hillestad; Henshilwood, Christopher Stuart (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In this paper, we present a case study of the micromammal sequence from Marine Isotope Stage 5 (130,000–71,000 YBP) at Blombos Cave on the southern Cape coast of South Africa. Our analyses of the micromammal assemblage ... -
An initial assessment of zooarchaeological assemblage sizes from South Africa
Badenhorst, Shaw; Mthombothi, Nomaswazi; Niekerk, Karen Loise van; Henshilwood, Christopher Stuart (Journal article, 2022)Large faunal assemblages remain a concern in zooarchaeology. Without sufficiently large assemblages, interpretations about the past are less secure. The number of potential taxa in an assemblage is related to various factors ... -
Microstratigraphic preservation of ancient faunal and hominin DNA in Pleistocene cave sediments
Massilani, Diyendo; Morley, Mike W.; Mentzer, Susan M.; Aldeias, Vera; Vernot, Benjamin; Miller, Christopher; Stahlschmidt, Mareike; Kozlikin, Maxim B.; Shunkov, Michael V.; Derevianko, Anatoly P.; Conard, Nicholas J.; Wurz, Sarah Jacoba Deborah; Henshilwood, Christopher Stuart; Vasquez, Javi; Essel, Elena; Nagel, Sarah; Richter, Julia; Nickel, Birgit; Roberts, Richard G.; Paabo, Svante; Slon, Viviane; Meyer, Matthias; Goldberg, Paul (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Ancient DNA recovered from Pleistocene sediments represents a rich resource for the study of past hominin and environmental diversity. However, little is known about how DNA is preserved in sediments and the extent to which ... -
Peptide mass fingerprinting as a tool to assess micromammal biodiversity in Pleistocene South Africa: The case of Klipdrift Shelter
Nel, Turid Hillestad; Peters, Carli; Richter, Kristine K.; Henshilwood, Christopher Stuart; Niekerk, Karen Loise van; Douka, Katerina (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Remains of small mammals from archaeological sites are often used as palaeoenvironmental proxies in the reconstruction of past environments. Yet, identification of micromammals to species-level based on morphological traits ... -
Rhinoceros from the Middle Stone Age in the Eastern and Western Cape of South Africa
Badenhorst, Shaw; Ratshinanga, Rialivhuwa; Parrini, Francesca; Niekerk, Karen Loise van; Henshilwood, Christopher Stuart (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In southern Africa, the Middle Stone Age (MSA), spanning more than 200,000 years, is a critical time period, in which Homo sapiens first appears. MSA sites located in the Eastern and Western Cape provinces of South Africa ...