Category: I.L.O.

  • Index of Articles

    Index of Articles

    Index of articles about the Wanniyal-aetto and other indigenous peoples of Sri Lanka

  • Sri Lanka’s Indigenous Wanniya-laeto

    Sri Lanka’s Indigenous Wanniya-laeto

    Sri Lanka’s indigenous inhabitants, the Veddas or Wanniya-laeto (‘forest-dwellers’) as they call themselves, preserve a direct line of descent from the island’s original Neolithic community dating from at least 14,000 BC and probably far earlier according to current scientific opinion.