ANDEAN PAST - Latin American Studies Program - Cornell University

ANDEANPAST 6 (2000)remembered as astrong supporter ofher anthro,pologist colleagues and their work.Lyndawasborn in San FranciscoonJuly 14.1944. and was raised in Seatde. with threeyounger brothers and one sister. In the PacificNorthwest she learned to ski as a toddler andbegan mountain climbing at age four. Shevigorously pursued these and other outdoorsports her entire life. followingthe footsteps ofher father. Warren B. Spickard. a noted physi,cian and outdoorsman who perishedin a moun,tain climbing accident in 1961.As a teenager, Lynda.sacademicgoalswereinspired by anthropology and archaeology.andshe followed these fields of study at ColoradoCollege.receivinga BachelorofArts in Anthro,pology in 1966. While an undergraduate sheparticipated in the University ofWashington.sSummer Institute in Linguistics (1965). andundertook archaeologyfield workas a ResearchAssistant forColorado College.sArchaeologicalSurveyof Mesa de Mayoin Colorado(1966). Inthe years immediately following.Lynda servedon several archaeological teams for projectssponsored byColorado Collegeand the Univer,sity of Colorado (Boulder) at Nunivak Island.Alaska, imd Greeley and Chimney Rock, Colo,rado. Lynda completed her Master of Arts inAnthropology at the University of Colorado(Boulder) in 1971 and enrolled in the Univer,sity.sPh.D. program.Teaching was one of Lynda.sgreat loves inlife. After serving as a teaching assistant at theUniversity of Colorado College (Boulder). sheheld lecturing positionsat ColoradoCollegeandthe University of Colorado (ColoradoSprings).Lynda.s affiliation with the now,defunctWright, Ingraham Institute in ColoradoSpringsbegan in 1972when she joined the faculty. TheWright, Ingraham Institute had beenestablishedin March 1970 by a group of scholarsand arti,sans to promote. direct. and encourage theconservation, preservation. and use of humanand natural resources. By 1971the firstproject,Running Creek Field Station. Colorado. hadtaken shape. Lynda became the PrincipalInvestigator for the archaeologicalsurveythere.She found evidence of Folsom,age occupation.thus pushing back the known use of the areasome 8.000 years. Lynda.s unpublished reportsfrom this time are among the papers of theWright, Ingraham Institute archived at theHeritage Center of the University of Wyomingin Laramie.In 1976. Lynda became Assistant Professorof Anthropology and Museum Director atCentral Missouri State University in Warrens,burg. Missouri. Over the next fewyearsshealsoserved as Principal Investigator for culturalresources surveys in Missouri. She returned toColorado College as a Visiting Professor in1978. where she taught at the EducationalSummer Institute.Thus. during the 1970s Lynda focused herattention on topics in North American prehis,tory including coastal adaptations, post,Pleisto,cene adjustments. and the evolutionary dynam,ics of nutritional adaptations. particularlyin thecontext of Pacific Northwest Coast environ,ments. Her dissertation research, in progressatthe time of her death. addressed methods formodelingnutritional ecologyand archaeo,zoolo,gical methods of recovering paleo,nutritionalinformation.Lynda.sintroduction to Andean archaeologyoccurred in 1979. Her first trip to Peru was aturning point in Lynda.s life because it openedthe door to a new realm of research that quicklybecame her life.s passion. In that year Lyndajoined the Huari Urban Prehistory Project inAyacucho as a Research Assistant. The projectdirector. William H. Isbell of the State Univer,sity of New York,Binghamton, encouragedLynda's burgeoning interest in Andean studies,and in 1980she returned to Huari as AssistantDirector of the SUNY,Binghamton archaeologi,cal Overseas Programin Peru. She alsoservedasAssistant Director of the Huari. projecesMoraduchayuq Temple Excavation, sponsoredby the National Geographic Society.