Three Sides of a Career: Papers in Honor of Robert L. Kelly

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miikka Tallavaara. Joseph Burger. Trevor Fristoe. Miska Luoto.

This is an abstract from the "Three Sides of a Career: Papers in Honor of Robert L. Kelly" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For long, anthropologists have recognized latitudinal pattern in hunter-gatherer diet, where plant use increases toward tropics. However, causes of the dietary variability remain unclear reflecting the fact that ecology in general lacks robust theory for predicting geographical variation in the balance of plant and animal foods...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeline Mackie. Todd Surovell. Spencer Pelton. Robert Kelly. Matthew O'Brien.

This is an abstract from the "Three Sides of a Career: Papers in Honor of Robert L. Kelly" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The nature of the transition from Clovis to Folsom complexes has long been an area of interest for Pleistocene archaeologists in the West. While it has been hypothesized that Folsom was an innovation started during the Clovis time period there have been few clear cases of temporal overlap. A recent find at the La Prele Mammoth...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph A. M. Gingerich. David Lamp.

This is an abstract from the "Three Sides of a Career: Papers in Honor of Robert L. Kelly" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, we propose a new idea for the early colonization of Ohio, which is likely applicable to other previously glaciated regions. Concentrations of Paleoindian materials around wetland features may represent the first resource locales exploited during colonization. These areas became less attractive as megafauna and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Craig Lee. Erick Robertson. Kathryn Puseman.

This is an abstract from the "Three Sides of a Career: Papers in Honor of Robert L. Kelly" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The release of cultural and biological materials from melting snow and ice is the foundation for the field of ice patch archeology, a sub-field of cryospheric archaeology—the archaeology of the frozen world. To better understand the nature and potential of the ice patch record in the mid-latitude Rocky Mountains, ice patches in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erick Robinson. Judson Finley. Chelsea Cheney. Carlton Shield Chief Gover. Jacob Freeman.

This is an abstract from the "Three Sides of a Career: Papers in Honor of Robert L. Kelly" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many archaeologists have questioned the value of using aggregated radiocarbon ages as a proxy measure of past human population growth. Most of these criticisms revolve around the lack of precision in these aggregated approaches. Higher-precision Bayesian approaches have often been presented as a better alternative. However,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bram Tucker.

This is an abstract from the "Three Sides of a Career: Papers in Honor of Robert L. Kelly" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One way to view the twentieth-century history of hunter-gatherer studies is as a long attempt to evaluate Victorian notions of foragers as primitive relics with actual data from real foraging peoples. This history came to a fiery climax during the Kalahari history debate of the 1990s, when researchers argued whether...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathaniel Kitchel. Heather Rockwell.

This is an abstract from the "Three Sides of a Career: Papers in Honor of Robert L. Kelly" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Conducting archaeological research exploring the Pleistocene occupations of formerly glaciated northeastern North America is challenging. Obstacles include an absence of stratified sites, poor preservation of perishable materials and shallow, often disturbed, sites. Perhaps because of his experience confronting these challenges...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Geoffrey Smith. Richard Rosencrance. Katelyn McDonough.

This is an abstract from the "Three Sides of a Career: Papers in Honor of Robert L. Kelly" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Last Supper Cave (LSC) is located in the rugged High Rock Country of northwestern Nevada. Thomas Layton excavated the cave in 1973–1974 under the auspices of the Nevada State Museum. He recovered a diverse assemblage of lithic, fiber, and wooden objects including a number of Western Stemmed Tradition (WST) points. Radiocarbon...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Reckin.

This is an abstract from the "Three Sides of a Career: Papers in Honor of Robert L. Kelly" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of high elevation archaeology in the Rocky Mountains continues to enhance our understanding of the seasonal rounds of precontact hunter-gatherers in the region. Yet the specific seasonality and quantity of time Indigenous people spent at high elevations each year is unclear. Ethnographically, we know that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip Carr.

This is an abstract from the "Three Sides of a Career: Papers in Honor of Robert L. Kelly" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bob came to the University of Louisville in my third year, and literally changed the Anthropology Department and my life. Coursework, field school, directed studies, and senior thesis, taught and/or guided by Bob, propelled me to graduate school. Consistent conversations over time and specific guidance at the 1991 SAA in NOLA...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicolas Naudinot. Mathieu Langlais. Jérémie Jacquier. Lynden Cooper.

This is an abstract from the "Three Sides of a Career: Papers in Honor of Robert L. Kelly" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent research allowed us to draw a better picture of the period around 14,000 cal BP, the theatre of a shift between Magdalenian and Azilian technical concepts. The rhythm of this changing is still difficult to describe precisely because of a radiocarbon plateau and the scarcity of Early Azilian (EA) sites excavated in good...