Lyn Wadley

Lyn Wadley is an honorary professor of archaeology, and also affiliated jointly with the Archaeology Department and the Institute for Evolution at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.[2]

Lyn Wadley
Alma materUniversity of Cape Town
University of the Witwatersrand
Known forearly humans cognitive
Scientific career
FieldsArchaeology
InstitutionsUniversity of the Witwatersrand
ThesisA Social And Ecological Interpretation Of The Later Stone Age In The Southern Transvaal.[1] (1986)

Education

Wadley received her master's degree from the University of Cape Town in 1977, and her PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1986.[3]

Career

Wadley taught in the University of the Witwatersrand from 1982 to 2004.[2] Although she retired from the university, she still supervises Ph.D students. She has led an archaeologist team at the Sibudu rock shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, and has uncovered new evidence for early humans' cognitive ability.[4] She is listed on the Thomson Reuters list of highly cited researchers.[5]In July 2019 she was elected as Fellow of the British Academy.[6]

Research areas

In her Ph.D research she developed a model of the social organisation of Holocene Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers focussing on seasonal aggregation and dispersal of groups. By excavations she identified a possible aggregation site, Jubilee shelter, and a possible dispersal site, Cave James.[7]

After her Ph.D she started excavating Rose Cottage Cave in the Free State province.[8] Her research focused on the Holocene and Pleistocene Later Stone Age and on the Middle Stone Age. The excavations yielded important data on the technological organisation of the Middle Stone Age Howiesons Poort industry and on the cognitive complexity of modern human behaviour during this part of the Middle Stone Age.[9][10]

Wadley is the director of the research unit ACACIA (Ancient Cognition and Culture in Africa) in the University of the Witwatersrand. The goal of this research unit is to examine issues of cognition and culture in the Middle Stone Age in South Africa. For the past 12 years, Sibudu Cave in KwaZulu-Natal provided the archaeological material analysed by the ACACIA staff and graduate students. Wadley also conducted experimental archaeology to understand technical processes which were adopted during the times of the Middle Stone Age.[2]

Published work
  • A Social And Ecological Interpretation Of The Later Stone Age In The Southern Transvaal (Ph.D). University of the Witwatersrand. 1986.
  • "Later Stone Age hunters and gatherers of the southern Transvaal: social and ecological interpretation". British Archaeological Reports. 25. 1987.
  • "Rose Cottage Cave Revisited: Malan's Middle Stone Age". South African Archaeological Bulletin. 44: 23–32. 1989. doi:10.2307/3888316. JSTOR 3888316.
  • "What is Cultural Modernity? A General View and a South African Perspective from Rose Cottage Cave". Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 11 (2): 201–221. 2001. doi:10.1017/S0959774301000117.
  • "Blade technology and tool forms in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa: the Howiesons Poort and post-Howiesons Poort at Rose Cottage Cave". Journal of Archaeological Science. 34 (5): 681–703. 2007. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2006.06.017.

References
  1. Wadley 1986.
  2. "Lyn Wadley". Witwatersrand University. Archived from the original on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  3. "Lyn Wadley". Archived from the original on 14 May 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  4. "Lyn Wadley". maropeng.co.za. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  5. Thomson Reuters list of highly cited researchers.
  6. "2019-07 - Prof. Lynn Wadley elected as Fellow of the British Academy". Wits University. 22 July 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  7. Wadley 1987.
  8. Wadley & Harper 1989.
  9. Wadley 2001.
  10. Soriano, Villa & Wadley 2007.
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