[5] From 1998-2011, her excavations at Sibudu Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal led to a series of insights and publications about early human cognitive ability.
She has led an archaeologist team at the Sibudu rock shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, and has uncovered new evidence for early humans' cognitive ability.
[8] 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.
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.