L. Mark Raab (1946–2019)

Abstract

After a decade–long battle with cancer, L. Mark Raab passed away on August 16, 2019, in Weston, Missouri, where he and his wife, Ann Raab, settled after his retirement in 2005 as Emeritus Professor from California State University, Northridge (CSUN). During his 21–year tenure at CSUN, Mark made an enormous impact on archaeological research in Alta and Baja California that earned him the SCA’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. His friends,colleagues, and former students remember him for his dedication, contributions to California archaeology, and his sense of humor. Born in Escondido, California, he earned his B.A. from CSU Fullerton in 1968. He then left California to pursue an M.A. in Anthropology at Vanderbilt University (1970), and a Ph.D. in Anthropology/Archaeology at Arizona State University (1976). His dissertation research focused on prehistoric community organization in the Santa Rosa Wash, an areaof the Papagueria in southern Arizona.