Robert L. Kelly

Robert L. Kelly is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming. He has conducted archaeological research throughout the western United States for more than four decades and is an internationally recognized authority on hunter-gatherer societies. He is a past-president of the Society for American Archaeology and the editor of American Antiquity. He has authored over 100 articles and books including The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers and, with a co-author, the widely used textbooks, Archaeology and Archaeology: Down to Earth. His field projects in Wyoming include excavation of a mammoth kill site and ice patch archaeology; he is also helping build an international database of radiocarbon dates.