UC Santa Barbara Professor Emerita Lynn Gamble was recently honored with the David A. Fredrickson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for California (SCA) Archaeology. The award is the society’s highest distinction given to a California archaeologist, recognizing cumulative research and service contributions to the state’s archaeology over the course of their lifetimes.
“It is a profound privilege to be honored by my peers for a lifetime of work as a California archaeologist,” Gamble said. “Many students, colleagues and California Indians supported me throughout my career and deserve this recognition, too. I thank everyone who recognized me in this life endeavor.”
Gamble specializes in the emergent sociopolitical complexity among hunter-gatherers in southern California, in particular the Chumash Indians, who for millennia have thrived along the California coast in what are now Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Ventura, Los Angeles and Kern counties…