We have incredible archaeological sites in this country and we frequently recover new and exciting data. - Lyn Wadley

Gender roles changed with environmental shifts, and certain tasks such as big-game hunting disappeared as a result. In other cases, gender roles were revised because of social pressures imposed on specific communities.

I have dedicated my life to African archaeology because the deep past in Africa is everyone’s heritage and it must be protected.

In some parts of Africa such as Mali, men and women are buried with the artifacts they owned in life, while in Ethiopia, stelae mark the gender of the deceased. Elsewhere, as in the Stone Age of southern Africa, gender-undifferentiated grave goods are placed with men, women, and children, suggesting a genderless ancestral world.