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Professor Lyn Wadley is an Honorary Professor in archaeology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, who has made major contributions to Stone Age research in Africa.
Background[edit]
Professor Lyn (Lynette) Wadley was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, but grew up in Zimbabwe. She worked as a school teacher at Selbourne Routledge School in Harare when she became interested in archaeology[1]. She excavated a rock shelter at Duncombe near Harare[2] before starting her studies in archaeology. Wadley graduated with an MA in archaeology from the University of Cape Town in 1976 and earned a PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1987 [3].
Research & employment history[edit]
Prof. Lyn Wadley was appointed Senior Technician at the Department of Archaeology at the University og the Witwatersrand in 1982. From 1983 she was appointed Lecturer at the same department, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1988 and Associate Professor in 1996. Prof. Wadley took an early retirement in 2004, and was then appointed to Honorary Professor at the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, where she continues to do research and supervise postgraduate students.
In the 1980s, prof. Wadley was doing research on Later Stone Age sites in Gauteng, South Africa, using San ethnography to construct models that could be tested archaeologically. This work was at the time the largest number of excavations in southern Africa leded by a female researcher [4]. Rose Cottage Cave [5] was excavated by Prof. Wadley in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This generated research on spatial distribution and gender-related activities. Since 1998, Prof. Wadley have been excavating Sibudu Cave in Kwa-Zulu Natal [6].
Through a multi-disiplinary approach, Prof. Wadley has made major contributions to African Stone Age research. She has been involved in gender studies [7] and has developed and inspired innovative research on Middle Stone Age plants and seeds [8][9], identification of use wear and residues [10] [11], the use of ochre [12], cultural modernity [13], and experimental archaeology [14]. As a recognition of her contributions, a volume in the Goodwin series[15] was dedicated to Prof. Wadley in 2008.
References[edit]
- ^ Janette Deacon 2008: Modelling the MSA - a tribute to Lyn Wadley. In Current themes in Middle Stone Age Research, edited by Marlize Lombard, Christine Sievers and Valerie Ward, pp 5 - 8. Goodwin Series 10, South African Archaeological Society.
- ^ N. J. Walker & L. Wadley 1984: Evidence for an early microlithic industry at Duncombe Farm, Zimbabwe. Cookeia 1:1 - 13.
- ^ L. Wadley 1986: A Social And Ecological Interpretation Of The Later Stone Age In The Southern Transvaal. University of the Witwatersrand.
- ^ Janette Deacon 2008: Modelling the MSA - a tribute to Lyn Wadley. In Current themes in Middle Stone Age Research, edited by Marlize Lombard, Christine Sievers and Valerie Ward, pp 5 - 8. Goodwin Series 10, South African Archaeological Society.
- ^ e.g. L. Wadley 1997: Rose Cottage Cave: archaeological work 1987 to 1997. South African Journal of Science 93:439 - 444.
- ^ e.g. L. Wadley 2006: Partners in grime: results of multi-disciplinary archaeology at Sibudu Cave. Southern African Humanities 18:315 – 341.
- ^ e.g. L. Wadley (editor) 1997: Our Genderes Past: Archaeological Studies of Gender in South Africa
- ^ e.g. L. Allott 2006: Archaeological charcoal as a Window on palaeo-vegetation and wood-use during the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu Cave. Southern African Humanities 18:173 - 201
- ^ e.g. C. Sievers 2006: Seeds from the Middle Stone Age layers at Sibudu Cave. Southern African Humanities 18:203 - 222
- ^ e.g. L. Wadley & J. Binneman 1995: Arrowheads or penknives? A microwear analysis of mid-Holocene stone segments from Jubilee Shelter, Transvaal. South African Journal of Science 31:153 - 155
- ^ e.g. M. Lombard & L. Wadley 2007: The morphological identification of micro-residues on stone tools using light mocroscopy: progress and difficulties based on blind tests. Journal of Archaeological Science 34:155 - 165
- ^ e.g. L. Wadley, T. Hodgskiss & M. Grant 2009: Implications for complex cognition from the hafting of tools with compound adhesives in the Middle Stone Age, South Africa. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 106:9590–9594
- ^ e.g. L. Wadley 2001: What is Cultural Modernity? A general view and a South African perspective from Rose Cottage Cave. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 11:201 - 211.
- ^ e.g. C. Sievers & L. Wadley 2008: Going underground: experimental carbonization of fruiting structures under hearths. Journal of Archaeological Science 35:2909-2917.
- ^ Current themes in Middle Stone Age Research, edited by Marlize Lombard, Christine Sievers and Valerie Ward. Goodwin Series 10, South African Archaeological Society.
External links[edit]
Lyn Wadley's page at the University of the Witwatersrand