![]() ![]() Instead, much of the important work that Lyneis conducted at Tule Springs focused on analyzing its ancient streams. Lyneis later reported that “we spent the first month out there walking behind bulldozers.” 3 Although she believed that humans were around Tule Springs “20,000 or 30,000” years ago, characteristics of the soil and rock fill in the valley made this difficult to prove. Spurred first by the 1930s discovery of an obsidian flake next to Late Pleistocene fossils at the site, and then by the 1956 discovery there of a scraper that suggested possible early human presence, researchers believed that the Tule Springs would yield evidence of early humans’ interactions with pre-historic mammals. 2 The expedition, which lasted from October 1962 to February 1963, investigated the theory that early man and Pleistocene megafauna coexisted at Tule Springs. She declined and pressed for a place on the field crew where she was then employed. Clerical work was a common profession for women. They offered her a position typing field notes. ![]() Vance Haynes to ask if she could contribute. While there, she wrote to the Tule Springs Expedition team led by Richard Shutler and geologist C. 1 Her family moved to the state of Washington, where she attended high school and college before moving to California to attend graduate school at UCLA for archaeology. Margaret Lyneis was born in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin in 1938 to Mary and Claude Lyneis. ![]() The coordinated investigation of archaeologists, paleontologists, and geologists that she took part in at the Tule Springs Fossil Beds and the Moapa Valley site continues to inspire archaeologists and anthropologists to study the Virgin Branch of the Ancestral Puebloan culture. Lyneis broke through limiting expectations for female archaeologists and went on to an influential career that included vital work in cultural resource management. Margaret Lyneis was one of the few women present at the Tule Springs Fossil Beds “Big Dig” from 1962 to 1963, which aimed to test whether humans interacted with Late Pleistocene animals at this site as well as possible associations of Pleistocene animal fossils with charcoal and tools. Special Collections & Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Margaret Lyneis, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1973. ![]()
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