Lyn Wadley

Honorary Professor, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand

The rhizomes of this flowering plant, Hypoxis angustifolia, were cooked by early humans. © Lyn Wadley

January 15, 2020

How we deduced that our ancestors liked roast vegetables too

Lyn Wadley, University of the Witwatersrand and Christine Sievers, University of the Witwatersrand

The charred remains of root vegetables found at Border Cave help us understand how early humans survived and thrived.

Impala drink at a waterhole in South Africa’s Kruger National Park. Milk used in paint nearly 49,000 years ago could have come from their early antecedents. EPA/Jon Hrusa

August 14, 2015

Paint gives clues about the ingenuity of ancient culture

Lyn Wadley, University of the Witwatersrand

It may have been a cultural tradition to use tempera paint that contained traces of milk on bodies according to a discovery at Sibudu Caves in KwaZulu Natal.

The heritage of Africa’s Sibudu Cave needs to be preserved as development plans threaten the site. Lyn Wadley

July 22, 2015

Cave that carries evidence of humanity’s first cultural exploits is under threat

Lyn Wadley, University of the Witwatersrand

Africa needs to protect the Sibudu cave from development.

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