1978 -
Cornell University, BA in Anthropology.
1980 - University of New Mexico, MA in Anthropology.
1985 - University of Michigan, Ph.D. in Anthropology.
Photo: Professor Kelly in a
Wyoming rockshelter
Evolutionary ecology of hunting and gathering societies, archaeological method and theory, paleoindian colonization of the New World, human evolution, stone tool technology.
Anth 1300 Introduction to Archaeology
2005 (Kelly, R.L. and M. Prasciunas) Did the Ancestors of Native Americans Cause Animal Extinctions in Late Pleistocene North America? In Reconsidering the Ecological Indian, edited by M.E. Harkin and D.R. Lewis, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, in press.
2005 Kelly, R.L., L. Poyer and B. Tucker Mobility and Houses in Southwestern Madagascar: Ethnoarchaeology Among the Mikea and Their Neighbors. In Archaeology and Ethnoarchaeology of Mobility, edited by F.R. Sellet, R. Greaves, and P.L. Yu, in press. Gainsville, University Press of Florida.
2003 Maybe We Do Know When People Came to the North America; And What Does it Mean if We Do? Quaternary International, 109-110: 133-145.
2003 Colonization of New land by Hunter-Gatherers: Expectations and Implications Based on Ethngraphic Data. In Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes: The Archaeology of Adaptation, edited by M. Rockman and J. Steele, pp. 44-58. London, Routledge.
2002 Opening Comments for 75th Anniversary of Antiquity, SAA Meeting, Denver (CO), 2002. Antiquity 76: 1066
2001 Prehistory of the Carson Desert and Stillwater Mountains, Nevada: Environment, Mobility and Subsistence. University of Utah Anthropological Papers 123.
1999 The Mikea of Southwestern Madagascar, for The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunter-Gatherers, Africa volume, edited by R. Daly and R.B. Lee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, with Jean-François Rabedimy and Lin A. Poyer.
1997 The Late Holocene Prehistory of the Great Basin. Journal of World Prehistory 11: 1-49.
1995 The Foraging Spectrum: Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1996 Choice Outstanding Academic Book
1995 Bioarchaeology of the Stillwater Marsh: Prehistoric Human Adaptation in the Western Great Basin. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 77. With Clark Spencer Larsen (editors and contributors)
Statement
Professor Kelly has participated in archaeological fieldwork since 1973 in California, Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming, Chile, Georgia, New York, Maine, Michigan and Kentucky. He has conducted ethnographic and ethnoarchaeological research with a horticultural/forager population in southwest Madagascar. He is a past President of the Society for American Archaeology.
ANTH 4115/5115 Lithic Analysis Readings (PDF)
Email - RLKelly@uwyo.edu
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