Vance Haynes was elected in 1990 to the National Academy of Sciences.
21 Facts About Vance Haynes
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From 1996 to 2004, Vance Haynes worked to keep the Kennewick Man discovery available for science.
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Currently an emeritus Regents' professor at the University of Arizona, Vance Haynes is still active in the School of Anthropology.
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Vance Haynes was the only child of his parents, Marjory McLeod and Caleb Vance Haynes, an air officer, commander of a military airfield, who would later rise to the rank of major general in the United States Air Force.
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Vance Haynes enrolled in the Colorado School of Mines, studying Geologic Engineering for two years.
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Vance Haynes was interested in rocketry and guided missiles, and was posted to special weapons units, including a stint at Sandia Base adjoining Albuquerque.
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From this work, Vance Haynes established the first reliable dates for the Folsom tradition and the Clovis culture.
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Later, Vance Haynes became one of the leading proponents and defenders of 'Clovis first' theory.
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Vance Haynes has been critical of all proposed pre-Clovis sites for failure to provide unequivocal evidence and to consider alternative hypotheses.
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Vance Haynes earned his PhD in 1965, and joined in archaeological digs at Hell Gap and Sister's Hill in Wyoming.
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Vance Haynes's careful dating of Clovis carbon traces provided Haynes with one of the most significant advances in the understanding of early human activity and migration in North America.
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Vance Haynes has primarily been interested in determining how the New World was populated by humans.
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Vance Haynes has studied both modern and historic climate change, human occupation of the Sahara, and battlefield archaeology.
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Vance Haynes suspects it was a combination of drought and human predation as animals concentrated at watering places as per Jelinek.
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In 1997, Vance Haynes co-authored a memorial of his teacher Emil Haury, an article written with Raymond Harris Thompson and James Jefferson Reid which appeared in Biographical Memoirs, Volume 72, of the National Academy of Sciences.
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On September 28,1999, some 90 former students of Vance Haynes converged at the University of Arizona to honor him during a two-day symposium.
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The remains in question were ones that Vance Haynes said predated any organized tribes currently known, and as such could not be considered the direct ancestor of any of the tribes who sought to have the bone fragments immediately reburied.
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Vance Haynes investigated the geochronology of playas, landscape evolution, processes of sand movement, and other relevant subjects.
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Vance Haynes documented previously unknown Paleolithic sites and the historic camps of early desert travelers.
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Vance Haynes previously broke codes for the US Army in California, then moved to Fairbanks to work as a civil servant for the USAF.
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Vance Haynes died in 2003, and was memorialized by her family with a leaf tile and a brick paver at the University of Arizona's Women's Plaza of Honor.