Dr. Lynn Fredlund, Archaeologist of the Northwestern Plains

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Female Firsts: Celebrating Archaeology’s Pioneering Women on the 101st Anniversary of the 19th Amendment " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Lynn Fredlund was a product of the 1960s, the decade before women exploded onto the archaeological scene on the Northern Plains. She was one of the earliest archaeologists to earn her living as a contract archaeologist and one of the first in the region to earn a PhD while actively pursuing a career that involved intensive fieldwork followed by intensive, time-sensitive report writing. Her work on large-scale survey projects in Montana brought her to the forefront of lithic studies, and her work with rock art recording and analysis was ahead of the boom in these studies that began in the 1990s. Records of the region, mostly available in reports and site forms, reflect her career of data accumulation on Plains cultures, but she also reached the public and peers with publications. She was an ordinary archaeologist who gathered an extraordinary amount of information on Plains archaeology.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Female Firsts: Celebrating Archaeology’s Pioneering Women on the 101st Anniversary of the 19th Amendment

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Abstract Id(s): 29884