from 250,000 years ago. This finding was received with great skepticism by the archaeological community. In 1968 Fryxell was a co-principal investigator with Richard Daugherty (WSU) during the unearthing of the Marmes Rockshelter from the floodplain of the Palouse River near the confluence of the Palouse and Snake Rivers in southeastern Washington. The site was found to contain some of the oldest human remains in the western hemisphere at 12,000 years of age. In 1969, The Senate of the State of Washington offered Roald Fryxell and Richard Daugherty the titles of “Distinguished Citizen”. Fryxell was then listed as one of the Outstanding Young Men of America in Who’s Who in the West. Although a geologist by training, his work was extremely interdisciplinary. He was influenced by the archaeology of Dr. Daugherty and created new methods for archaeological sampling methods. For example, his soil stratigraphy sampling which later became known as soil monoliths. This preserved entire sections of the stratigraphy of a site, which could then be brought back to the archaeological laboratory at Washington State University. Teaching was of primary importance to Fryxell and he involved students on many of his monumental projects. Leslie Wildeson remembers him as teaching his students to truly understand the why behind every question, the reason for every method and power of the scientific method. In 1971 after the Marmes project, Fryxell was selected to be part of the team of geologists in Houston who examined rocks brought back from the Moon during the Apollo program. Fryxell was hired by NASA to analyze lunar samples from numerous Apollo missions. He was also the designer of the apparatus used for collecting core samples of the moon's surface. The lunar crater Fryxell is named after him. Contributions to Preservation Archaeology Roald Fryxell is often known best for his efforts to research, protect, and later salvage the Marmes Rockshelter Site. In May 1968 through February 1969, Roald Fryxell was the Principal Investigator of the Marmes project, which involved salvage excavation of the site prior to a water reclamation project conducted by the US Army Corps of Engineers. With the site's location above Lower Monumental Dam, it was to be quickly inundated with the rising reservoir in February 1969. This led to an enormous archaeological salvage effort in the months leading up to the water rise. Despite the salvage efforts, Fryxell and Daugherty continued to fight the Army Corps