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Lynda Elliot Spickard, July 14-1944 - August 10, 1999 Robin M Andean Past Volume 6 Article 4 2000 Lynda Elliot Spickard, July 14-1944 - August 10, 1999 Robin M. Brown Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/andean_past Part of the Archaeological Anthropology Commons Recommended Citation Brown, Robin M. (2000) "Lynda Elliot Spickard, July 14-1944 - August 10, 1999," Andean Past: Vol. 6 , Article 4. Available at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/andean_past/vol6/iss1/4 This Obituaries is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Andean Past by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LYNDAEWOT SPICKARD,.]ULY14, 1944 .. AUGUST 10, 1999 Robin M. Brown TERC, Cambridge,Massachusetts LyndaElliotSpickard, an Andean archaeol.. .devotionto field..workandthe prehistoryofthe ogistmuch belovedbyher manycolleagues,died Americas, strong interest in the interpretation on August 10, 1999 after a twenty..yearordeal of monumental Andean architecture, and with cancer. She will be remembered by the fascination with the rich cultures ofLatinAmer.. Andean archaeological community for her ica, both past and present. Lynda will also be ANDEANPAST 6 (2000): 1..5. ANDEANPAST 6 (2000) remembered asastrong supporter ofher anthro, taken shape. Lynda became the Principal pologist colleagues and their work. Investigator for the archaeologicalsurveythere. She found evidence of Folsom,age occupation. Lyndawasborn in San FranciscoonJuly 14. thus pushing back the known use of the area 1944. and was raised in Seatde. with three some 8.000 years. Lynda.sunpublished reports younger brothers and one sister. In the Pacific from this time are among the papers of the Northwest she learned to ski as a toddler and Wright, Ingraham Institute archived at the began mountain climbing at age four. She Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming vigorously pursued these and other outdoor in Laramie. sports her entire life. followingthe footsteps of her father. Warren B. Spickard. a noted physi, In 1976. Lynda became Assistant Professor cian and outdoorsman who perishedin a moun, of Anthropology and Museum Director at tain climbing accident in 1961. Central Missouri State University in Warrens, burg. Missouri. Over the next fewyearsshealso As a teenager, Lynda.sacademicgoalswere served as Principal Investigator for cultural inspired by anthropology and archaeology.and resources surveys in Missouri. She returned to she followed these fields of study at Colorado Colorado College as a Visiting Professor in College.receivinga BachelorofArts in Anthro, 1978. where she taught at the Educational pology in 1966. While an undergraduate she Summer Institute. participated in the University ofWashington.s Summer Institute in Linguistics (1965). and Thus. during the 1970s Lynda focused her undertook archaeologyfieldworkasa Research attention on topics in North American prehis, Assistant forColorado College.sArchaeological tory including coastal adaptations, post,Pleisto, SurveyofMesa de Mayoin Colorado(1966). In cene adjustments. and the evolutionary dynam, the years immediately following.Lynda served icsofnutritional adaptations. particularlyin the on several archaeological teams for projects context of Pacific Northwest Coast environ, sponsored byColorado Collegeand the Univer, ments. Her dissertation research, in progressat sity of Colorado (Boulder) at Nunivak Island. the time of her death. addressed methods for Alaska, imd Greeley and Chimney Rock, Colo, modelingnutritional ecologyand archaeo,zoolo, rado. Lynda completed her Master of Arts in gical methods of recovering paleo,nutritional Anthropology at the University of Colorado information. (Boulder) in 1971 and enrolled in the Univer, sity.sPh.D. program. Lynda.sintroduction to Andean archaeology occurred in 1979. Her first trip to Peru was a Teaching was one of Lynda.sgreat loves in turning point in Lynda.s life because it opened life. After serving as a teaching assistant at the the door to a new realm ofresearch that quickly University of Colorado College (Boulder). she became her life.s passion. In that year Lynda held lecturing positionsat ColoradoCollegeand joined the Huari Urban Prehistory Project in the University of Colorado (ColoradoSprings). Ayacucho as a Research Assistant. The project Lynda.s affiliation with the now,defunct director. William H. Isbell of the State Univer, Wright, Ingraham Institute in ColoradoSprings sity of New York,Binghamton, encouraged began in 1972when she joined the faculty. The Lynda's burgeoning interest in Andean studies, Wright, IngrahamInstitute had beenestablished and in 1980she returned to Huari as Assistant in March 1970 by a group of scholarsand arti, Director ofthe SUNY,Binghamton archaeologi, sans to promote. direct. and encourage the cal Overseas Programin Peru. She alsoservedas conservation, preservation. and use of human Assistant Director of the Huari. projeces and natural resources. By 1971the firstproject, Moraduchayuq Temple Excavation, sponsored Running Creek Field Station. Colorado. had by the National Geographic Society. 3- Brown:LyndaSpickard While continuing to work on her North for the Greek Peak Ski Patrol, a force she served American dissertation research during the for over 20 years. Lyndaalso hiked, canoed, 1980s, Lynda developed a specialization in and kayakedextensively,particularlyin New Andean archaeology as well. Her theoretical YorkState. interests focused on the development of urban- ism and state government, and corresponding A well-seasoned and frequent traveler, architectural forms at Huari. She investigated Lyndaenjoyedvisitingnewplacesand cultures these topics in a series o{seven papers (1982- around the globe, yet her experiencesas an 1991) presented at meetings of the Society for archaeologist in Peru were the most exhilarating American Archaeology, the International Con- and influential in her life. She continued to gressofAmericanists, the American Anthropo- study Spanish, taking courses and devoting logical Association, The Society for Applied spare time to reading archaeologicaland literary Anthropology, and the Northeast Conference works until her death. Lynda alwayscarried a on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory. deep appreciation for the people ofPeru and the Lynda's published works on administrative rich landscape that is their home. architecture at Huari appear in Investigationsof the Andean Past, and in DialogoAndino, as well Bibliography of Lynda Elliot Spickard as in a major Dumbarton Oaks volume (Spickard 1983, 1985; Isbell et al. 1991). Publications Isbell, William H., Christine Brewster-Wray, and Lynda With the Sendero Luminoso-TupacAmaru E.Spickard civil war in Peru during the 1980s,archaeologi- 1991 Architecture and.Spatial Otganization at Huari. cal research in the highlands was suspended. In Huari Administrative StTUCture:Prehistoric Lynda returned to the USA, establishing resi- MonumentalArchitectureand State Gooemment, dence in Binghamton, New York. Lynda held edited by William H. Isbell and Gordon F. Mc Ewan, pp. 19-53. Washington, D.C.: Dumbar- several appointments at SUNY-Binghamtonin ton Oaks Research Libraryand Collection. the early 1980s,including ResearchAssociatein Spickard, Lynda E. Anthropology,Assistant ProfessorofCareer and 1978 Sites Mum on Area's Past. The BulletinofJohn- Interdisciplinary Studies, and StaffAssociate of son County Historical Society, Inc. 14(2):4. the PublicArchaeologyFacility. Shealsotaught Warrensburg, Missouri. 1979 Anthropology and Integration. In Integrative anthropology and worked as a grants adminis- Studies,edited by Daniel Fallon and Catherine trator at Broome Community College before Ingraham. Pages 54-61. Proceedings ofa semi- accepting the position of Director ofSponsored nar held on August 18, 1978 at the Wright- Programs at the college, which she held until Ingraham Institute. University of Colorado her death. Publication Office, Boulder. 1983 The Development of Huari Administrative Architecture. In Investigationsof the Andean Lynda's recent years were dedicated to Past: Papers from the First Annual Northeast tireless community service projects, which Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohis- reflecther deep commitments to societyand the tory, edited by Daniel H. Sandweiss, pp. 136- 160. Ithaca, NewYork:Cornell UniversityLatin protection of the environment, particularly in American Studies Program. the Binghamton area and neighboringregionsof 1985 El an~lisisformal de la arquitectura de lossitios upstate NewYork. At her death, she wasSecre- Huari y Tiwanaku. In La problem~tica Tiwa- tary of the Board ofGovernance ofthe Atlantic naku Huari en el contexto panandino del des- Chapter of the Sierra Club, and Chair and arrollo cultural, edited by Mario A. Rivera, pp. 73-88. Proceedings of the 45th International Officerof the Susquehanna Groupof the Sierra Congress of Americanists. DiaIogoAndino 4. Club. She also served as Director of Planning Arica, Chile: Universidad de Tarapacl. for the Binghamton..Borovichi (Russia) Sister Cities organization and was a Senior Patroller ANDEANPAST 6 (2000) Cultural ResourcesSurveys Obituaries of Lynda EUiot Spickard 1977 Cultural Resource Survey of Area to be Affected Brooks, Debra, editor by Waste Water Treatment Line, Warrensburg, 2000 Obituaries(LyndaE. Spickard'66). Colorado Missouri. On file at State Office of Historic College Bulletin (on-line edition: http://www. Preservation, Jefferson City, Missouri.
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