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Robert Kelly |
Visit the website of Robert Kelly Professor Kelly began working on archaeological research projects when he was a high school sophomore. Over the past 35 years he has participated in archaeological fieldwork in California, Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming, Chile, Georgia, New York, Maine, Michigan and Kentucky. He has also conducted ethnographic and ethnoarchaeological research with the Mikea, a horticultural/forager population in southwest Madagascar. He has served as President of the Society for American Archaeology, secretary of the Archaeology Division of the American Anthropological Association, and department head. He is the author of over 100 articles, books, and reviews, including The Foraging Spectrum: Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways (1995), Prehistory of the Carson Desert and Stillwater Mountains, Nevada: Environment, Mobility and Subsistence (2001), and, with David Hurst Thomas, the textbooks Archaeology, Archaeology: Down to Earth, and, with Peter Dawson and David Hurst Thomas, a Canadian version of Archaeology. His research interests lie in hunter-gatherer societies, behavioral ecology, the analysis of stone tool assemblages, the initial human colonization of the western hemisphere, and archaeological method and theory. He has received over $400,000 in grant funding. With National Science Foundation and Bureau of Land Management funding he is currently researching pre-10,000 BP use of caves and rockshelters in northern Wyoming.
Courses Taught:ANTH 1300 Introduction to Archaeology pdf Recent/Selected Publications:Books and Monographs2007 Kelly, R.L. Mustang Shelter: Test Excavation of a Rockshelter in the Stillwater Mountains, Western Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Series 18. Available on CD with data tables, and on-line. website 2007 Kelly, R.L. The Foraging Spectrum: Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways. Revised version. Percheron Press, Clinton Corners, New York. website Papers2008 Larsen, C.S., R.L. Kelly, M. Schoeninger, C.B. Ruff, D. Hutchinson, and B. Hemphill. Living on the Margins: Biobehavioral Adaptations in the Western Great Basin. In Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology, edited by E.J. Reitz, C.A. Scarry, and S.J. Scudder, pp. 161 -189 (Update of 1995 publication). New York: Springer. pdf 2007 Kelly, R.L. and M. Prasciunas. Did the Ancestors of Native Americans Cause Animal Extinctions in Late Pleistocene North America? In Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian, edited by M.E. Harkin and D.R. Lewis, pp. 95-122. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press. pdf 2006 Kelly, R.L., D. A. Byers, W. Eckerle, P. Goldberg, C. V. Haynes, R. M. Larsen, J. Laughlin, J. I. Mead, S. Wall. Multiple Approaches to Formation Processes: The Pine Spring Site, Southwest Wyoming. Geoarchaeology 21: 615-638. pdf 2006 Cheshier, J. and R. L. Kelly. Projectile Point Shape and Durability: The Effects of Thickness:Length. American Antiquity 71: 353-363. pdf 2005 Kelly, R.L. Hunter-Gatherers, Archaeology, and the Role of Selection in the Evolution of the Human Mind. In A Catalyst for Ideas: Anthropological Archaeology and the Legacy of Douglas W. Schwartz, pp. 19-39, edited by Vernon Scarborough and Richard Leventhal. Santa Fe, School of American Research Press. pdf 2005 Kelly, R.L., Poyer, L., and B. Tucker. An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Mobility, Architectural Investment, and Food Sharing among Madagascar's Mikea. American Anthropologist 107: 403-416. pdf 2004 Kelly, R.L. Searching for Home in the Modern Landscape of Archaeology, in Exploring Analytical Strategies, Frames of Reference, and Culture Process, edited by Amber Johnson, pp. 1-10. Praeger, Westport, CT. pdf 2003 Kelly, R.L. Maybe We Do Know When People First Came to North America; And What Does it Mean if We Do? Quaternary International, 109-110: 133-145. pdf 2003 Kelly, R.L. Colonization of New land by Hunter-Gatherers: Expectations and Implications Based on Ethnographic Data. In Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes: The Archaeology of Adaptation, edited by M. Rockman and J. Steele, pp. 44-58. London, Routledge. pdf |
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