Lyn Wadley

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Lyn Wadley is affiliated with the following schools: University of Cape Town, University College London, University of Wollongong, University of the Witwatersrand, Australian National University

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According to Wikipedia, 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.

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Ages for the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa: Implications for Human Behavior and Dispersal (2008) (494)
Implications for complex cognition from the hafting of tools with compound adhesives in the Middle Stone Age, South Africa (2009) (388)
What is Cultural Modernity? A General View and a South African Perspective from Rose Cottage Cave (2001) (264)
Bedding, hearths, and site maintenance in the Middle Stone Age of Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (2009) (256)
Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa (2008) (254)
The Uses of Style in Archaeology (1992) (248)
Blade technology and tool forms in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa: the Howiesons Poort and post-Howiesons Poort at Rose Cottage Cave (2007) (227)
Middle Stone Age Bedding Construction and Settlement Patterns at Sibudu, South Africa (2011) (219)
SOUTH AFRICAN AND LESOTHO STONE AGE SEQUENCE UPDATED (I) (2012) (213)
New ages for the post-Howiesons Poort late and final Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, South Africa (2008) (191)
Putting ochre to the test: replication studies of adhesives that may have been used for hafting tools in the Middle Stone Age. (2005) (188)
Ochre in hafting in Middle Stone Age southern Africa: a practical role (2004) (176)
Possible shell beads from the Middle Stone Age layers of Sibudu Cave, South Africa (2008) (162)
Were snares and traps used in the Middle Stone Age and does it matter? A review and a case study from Sibudu, South Africa. (2010) (160)
Compound‐Adhesive Manufacture as a Behavioral Proxy for Complex Cognition in the Middle Stone Age (2010) (158)
A late Middle Stone Age artifact assemblage from Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal): comparisons with the European Middle Paleolithic (2005) (152)
Those marvellous millennia: the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa (2015) (152)
A Segment is not a Monolith: evidence from the Howiesons Poort of Sibudu, South Africa (2008) (149)
Sibudu Cave: background to the excavations, stratigraphy and dating (2006) (148)
Announcing a Still Bay industry at Sibudu Cave, South Africa. (2007) (140)
The Pleistocene Later Stone Age south of the Limpopo River (1993) (136)
Identifying regional variability in Middle Stone Age bone technology: The case of Sibudu Cave (2012) (129)
Recognizing Complex Cognition through Innovative Technology in Stone Age and Palaeolithic Sites (2013) (118)
The morphological identification of micro-residues on stone tools using light microscopy: progress and difficulties based on blind tests (2007) (109)
Research Article A TYPOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE FINAL MIDDLE STONE AGE STONE TOOLS FROM SIBUDU CAVE, KWAZULU-NATAL (2005) (101)
Later Stone Age hunters and gatherers of the southern Transvaal : social and ecological interpretation (1987) (99)
Microscopic residues as evidence of hafting on backed tools from the 60 000 to 68 000 year-old Howiesons Poort layers of Rose Cottage Cave, South Africa (2004) (89)
Partners in grime : results of multi-disciplinary archaeology at Sibudu Cave (2006) (84)
The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort at Sibudu and Blombos: Understanding Middle Stone Age Technologies (2015) (84)
The first residue analysis blind tests: results and lessons learnt (2004) (84)
Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal: Background to the excavations of Middle Stone Age and Iron Age occupations (2004) (83)
ROSE COTTAGE CAVE : ARCHAEOLOGICAL WORK 1987 TO 1997 (1997) (79)
Still Bay and serrated points from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa (2010) (78)
Going underground : experimental carbonization of fruiting structures under hearths (2008) (76)
A mineralogical and phytolith study of the Middle Stone Age hearths in Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa : Sibudu Cave (2004) (76)
Small things in perspective: the contribution of our blind tests to micro-residue studies on archaeological stone tools (2007) (71)
Rose Cottage Cave Revisited: Malan's Middle Stone Age Collection (1989) (70)
Cemented ash as a receptacle or work surface for ochre powder production at Sibudu, South Africa, 58,000 years ago (2010) (69)
A Milk and Ochre Paint Mixture Used 49,000 Years Ago at Sibudu, South Africa (2015) (65)
THE ROBBERG INDUSTRY OF ROSE COTTAGE CAVE, EASTERN FREE STATE: THE TECHNOLOGY, SPATIAL PATTERNS AND ENVIRONMENT* (1996) (60)
Multiproxy record of late Quaternary climate change and Middle Stone Age human occupation at Wonderkrater, South Africa (2014) (59)
Experimental heat treatment of silcrete implies analogical reasoning in the Middle Stone Age. (2014) (58)
Thermoluminescence dating on burnt lithics from Middle Stone Age layers at Rose Cottage Cave (2005) (58)
Quartz Knapping Strategies in the Howiesons Poort at Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) (2014) (57)
Crystal quartz backed tools from the Howiesons Poort at Sibudu Cave (2006) (56)
Quartz bifacial points in the Howiesons Poort of Sibudu (2013) (55)
Legacies from the Later Stone Age (1989) (55)
Infrared reflectance spectroscopy as an analytical technique for the study of residues on stone tools: potential and challenges (2014) (53)
What is in a name?: Characterising the 'Post-Howieson's Poort' at Sibudu (2012) (52)
Cooked starchy rhizomes in Africa 170 thousand years ago (2020) (49)
Quantification of climate and vegetation from southern African Middle Stone Age sites – an application using Late Pleistocene plant material from Sibudu, South Africa (2012) (48)
Rose Cottage Cave: Background and a Preliminary Report on the Recent Excavations (1991) (48)
Later Stone Age Hunters and Gatherers of the Southern Transvaal (1987) (48)
Ochre crayons or waste products? Replications compared with MSA ‘crayons’ from Sibudu Cave, South Africa (2005) (45)
Ochre for the toolmaker: shaping the Still Bay points at Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) (2009) (45)
A cache of ∼5000 glass beads from the Sibudu Cave Iron Age occupation (2009) (44)
Some combustion features at Sibudu, South Africa, between 65,000 and 58,000 years ago (2012) (44)
Changes in the social relations of precolonial Hunter-Gatherers after agropastoralist contact : An example from the Magaliesberg, South Africa (1996) (43)
Vegetation changes between 61 500 and 26 000 years ago : the evidence from seeds in Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal : Sibudu Cave (2004) (42)
New Excavations at Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (2018) (40)
THE EARLY HOLOCENE LAYERS OF ROSE COTTAGE CAVE, EASTERN FREE STATE: TECHNOLOGY, SPATIAL PATTERNS AND ENVIRONMENT* (2000) (39)
New knapping methods in the Howiesons Poort at Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) (2014) (38)
Preliminary report on excavations at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal (2001) (38)
A review of rock studies for archaeologists, and an analysis of dolerite and hornfels from the Sibudu area, KwaZulu-Natal (2011) (36)
Two 'moments in time' during Middle Stone Age occupations of Sibudu, South Africa (2012) (35)
The Wilton and Pre-Ceramic Post-Classic Wilton Industries at Rose Cottage Cave and Their Context in the South African Sequence (2000) (35)
The antiquity of bow-and-arrow technology: evidence from Middle Stone Age layers at Sibudu Cave (2018) (34)
Optically stimulated luminescence dating at Rose Cottage Cave (2008) (34)
Rose Cottage Cave: The Later Stone Age Levels with European and Iron Age Artefacts (1992) (34)
Traditional Glue, Adhesive and Poison Used for Composite Weapons by Ju/’hoan San in Nyae Nyae, Namibia. Implications for the Evolution of Hunting Equipment in Prehistory (2015) (33)
A techno-functional perspective on quartz micro-notches in Sibudu's Howiesons Poort indicates the use of barbs in hunting technology (2018) (32)
Our gendered past : archaeological studies of gender in Southern Africa (1999) (31)
How some archaeologists recognize culturally modern behaviour (2003) (31)
Raman spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy confirm ochre residues on 71 000‐year‐old bifacial tools from Sibudu, South Africa (2018) (29)
Southern African arrow poison recipes, their ingredients and implications for Stone Age archaeology (2015) (28)
Fire and grass-bedding construction 200 thousand years ago at Border Cave, South Africa (2020) (28)
The Cave of Hearths : Makapan middle pleistocene research project : field research by Anthony Sinclair and Patrick Quinney, 1996-2001 (2009) (28)
A history in paint and stone from Rose Cottage Cave, South Africa (1997) (27)
How some archaeologists recognize culturally modern behaviour : reviews of current issues and research findings : human origins research in South Africa (2003) (26)
How people used ochre at Rose Cottage Cave, South Africa: Sixty thousand years of evidence from the Middle Stone Age (2017) (25)
Technological variability at Sibudu Cave: The end of Howiesons Poort and reduced mobility strategies after 62,000 years ago (2017) (25)
Variability in Middle Stone Age symbolic traditions: The marine shell beads from Sibudu Cave, South Africa (2019) (20)
Segments of Time: A Mid-Holocene Wilton Site in the Transvaal (1986) (19)
Direct evidence for human exploitation of birds in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa: The example of Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal. (2016) (18)
Tandjesberg Shelter, eastern Free State, South Africa (1998) (18)
Hunting Technologies During the Howiesons Poort at Sibudu Cave: What They Reveal About Human Cognition in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Between ~65 and 62 ka (2016) (17)
A TALE FROM THREE REGIONS: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE PLEISTOCENE/HOLOCENE TRANSITION IN THE WESTERN CAPE, THE CALEDON VALLEY AND THE LESOTHO HIGHLANDS, SOUTHERN AFRICA (1998) (17)
The impact of micro-residue studies on South African Middle Stone Age research (2009) (17)
Who Lived in Mauermanshoek Shelter, Korannaberg, South Africa? (2001) (16)
Responses of South African Agate and Chalcedony When Heated Experimentally, and the Broader Implications for Heated Archaeological Minerals (2017) (16)
Past environmental proxies from the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa (2014) (16)
What Stimulated Rapid, Cumulative Innovation After 100,000 Years Ago? (2021) (14)
Hope Hill Shelter: a late stone age site in the Southern Transvaal (1987) (14)
The thermal behaviour of silica varieties used for tool making in the Stone Age (2018) (14)
Stable isotope evidence for (mostly) stable local environments during the South African Middle Stone Age from Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal (2018) (12)
Potential for identifying plant-based toxins on San hunter-gatherer arrowheads (2017) (12)
The Use of Space in the Late Middle Stone Age of Rose Cottage Cave, South Africa (2006) (12)
Preliminary study of scrapers around combustion features in layer SS, Sibudu, 58 000 years ago (2014) (12)
A charcoal study from the Middle Stone Age, 77,000 to 65,000 years ago, at Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal (2019) (12)
Reply to Barham: Aggregation and Dispersal Phase Sites in the Later Stone Age (1992) (12)
Some aspects of Holocene prehistory in central South West Africa : with special reference to Big Elephant Shelter, Erongo Mountains (1977) (12)
Adullam Cave, eastern Free State, South Africa : test excavations at a multiple-occupation Oakhurst Industry site (2000) (11)
A Raman micro-spectroscopy study of 77,000 to 71,000 year old ochre processing tools from Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (2019) (11)
Another Dating Revolution for Prehistoric Archaeology? (2013) (10)
Plant bedding construction between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago at Border Cave, South Africa (2022) (9)
Geoarchaeology and zooarchaeology of Border Cave, South Africa: Initial multiproxy considerations of stratigraphy and site formation processes from the Backwell et al. excavations (2022) (8)
Gender Relations in the Thukela Basin (1989) (8)
Beetle and Plant Arrow Poisons of the San People of Southern Africa (2019) (8)
Charcoal analysis from 49 000-year-old hearths at Sibudu: Implications for wood uses and the KwaZulu-Natal environment (2015) (7)
Howiesons Poort backed artifacts provide evidence for social connectivity across southern Africa during the Final Pleistocene (2022) (7)
Human deciduous teeth from the Middle Stone Age layers of Sibudu Cave (South Africa). (2018) (7)
Temporal perspectives on Still Bay point production at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, in the context of southern Africa (2019) (7)
Winds of change: Climate variability in a mild glacial on the east coast of South Africa, inferred from submerged aeolianites and the archaeological record of Sibudu (2022) (7)
A taphonomic study of Ochre demostrates post-depositional color transformations (2010) (7)
Radiocarbon Dates from Big Elephant Shelter, Erongo Mountains, South West Africa (1976) (7)
Border Cave: A 227,000-year-old archive from the southern African interior (2022) (7)
The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 1: From the Earliest Times to c. 500 B.C. (1983) (6)
A social and ecological interpretation of the later stone age in the Southern Transvaal (2016) (6)
A reappraisal of the Border Cave 1 cranium (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) (2022) (6)
Middle Stone Age wood use 58 000 years ago in KwaZulu-Natal: charcoal analysis from two Sibudu occupation layers (2017) (6)
Luminescence dating at Border Cave: attempts, questions, and new results (2022) (6)
Filling the gap: a new Holocene chronology for the Transvaal Stone Age (1986) (5)
Chapter 5. Complex cognition required for compound adhesive manufacture in the Middle Stone Age implies symbolic capacity (2011) (5)
Technological Transformations Imply Cultural Transformations and Complex Cognition (2016) (4)
Sehonghong. The Middle and Later Stone Age Sequence at a Lesotho Rock Shelter (1989) (3)
The effect of heat on keratin and implications for the archaeological record (2020) (3)
Lithic technological and spatial analysis of the final Pleistocene at Border Cave, South Africa (2022) (3)
Plants, people and fire: Phytolith and FTIR analyses of the post-Howiesons Poort occupations at Border Cave (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) (2023) (3)
Underground transfer of carbonised organic residues to lithics during preliminary fire experiments: implications for archaeology (2019) (3)
A camera trap record of scavengers at a kudu carcass: implications for archaeological bone accumulations (2020) (3)
Detailed palaeomagnetic record at Rose Cottage Cave, South Africa: Implications for the Holocene geomagnetic field behaviour and chronostratigraphy (2020) (3)
The final MSA of eastern South Africa: a comparative study between Umbeli Belli and Sibhudu (2022) (3)
A vegetation record based on charcoal analysis from Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, ∼227 000 to ∼44 000 years ago (2022) (3)
The Use of Space in a Gender Study of two South African Stone Age Sites (2000) (2)
Revisiting later stone age collections from big elephant shelter, Namibia (2012) (2)
Middle Stone Age wood use in Rose Cottage Cave South Africa: Evidence from charcoal identifications (2020) (2)
Theoretical Frameworks for Understanding African Hunter-Gatherers (2013) (2)
Was yellow lead chromate pigment used during Middle Stone Age at Sibudu rock shelter (South Africa)? (2019) (2)
Technological and geometric morphometric analysis of ‘post-Howiesons Poort points’ from Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (2022) (2)
Ilmenite and the Rose Cottage Cave ceramics : correspondence (2001) (1)
South African Archaeology, Gender, and the African Renaissance (2000) (1)
Gender in the Prehistory of Sub‐Saharan Africa (2014) (1)
Everyday tasks demonstrate cognitive complexity in Africa’s Middle Stone Age (2017) (0)
List of Contributors (2019) (0)
Our ancestors in Africa ate roasted root vegetables 170 thousand years ago (2020) (0)
Technological and functional analysis of 80–60 ka bone wedges from Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) (2022) (0)
Comments on : 'precolonial exchange between the eastern Free State and KwaZulu-Natal: the evidence from rose cottage cave ceramics'. Authors' reply (2002) (0)
EDS spectra of the residue. (2015) (0)
The anthropology of learning in childhood [Book Review] (2011) (0)
Ensnaring the Mind (2019) (0)
Proxy palaeoenvironmental data from stable carbon isotopic analysis of archaeological charcoal: Middle Stone Age evidence from Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal (2016) (0)
Exploring fire use at Sibudu Cave using the kernel density tool in ArcGIS (2015) (0)
The Archaeology of Gender in Sub-Saharan Africa (2018) (0)
Insights into site formation at Rose Cottage Cave, South Africa, based on the analysis of sediment peels (2016) (0)
Another Dating Revolution for Prehistoric Archaeology? (2011) (0)
Evidence for large land snail cooking and consumption at Border Cave c. 170–70 ka ago. Implications for the evolution of human diet and social behaviour (2023) (0)
Graphite and multi‐layer graphene detected on ~70 000‐year‐old stone tools: geological origin or constituent of hafting resin? (2022) (0)
African Genesis: Sibudu Cave: recent archaeological work on the Middle Stone Age (2012) (0)
In memoriam – Hilary John Deacon (1936–2010) (2010) (0)
New Excavations at Border Cave: Preliminary Reflections on Stratigraphy and Site Formation Processes (2019) (0)

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