--November 17, 2011 The Cheyenne Chapter of the Wyoming Archaeological Society guest speaker is Dr. Robert L. Kelly, RPA, Professor and Director, Frison Institute, Department of Anthropology. The title of his talk is “Wyoming's Bighorn Basin: 14,000 Years of Climate and Human Population Change.” We can now reconstruct changes in the size of human populations, accurately over thousands of years, with a new method developed by UW faculty. Combined with new UW research into past climate change, we can also examine, more precisely than ever before, the relationships between human population size and climate change. Find out what these new insights from Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin could mean for the Rocky Mountain region.
Bob received his B.A. 1978 from Cornell University, his M.A. in 1980 from the University of New Mexico and his Ph.D. 1985 from the University of Michigan. He has previously taught at Colby College inMaine, and beginning in 1986, the University of Louisville, in Kentucky. He directed that department's Program in Archaeology and served as department head from 1992-1997. He moved to Wyoming in 1997, taking a position as professor of Anthropology. He served as department head from 2005-2008, overseeing the planning, construction and move to the new anthropology building. He helped construct the department's current doctoral program.
Bob is the author of over 100 articles, books, and reviews, including The Foraging Spectrum: Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways, The Bioarchaeology of the Stillwater Marsh (with Clark S. Larsen), and Prehistory of the Carson Desert and Stillwater Mountains, Nevada: Environment, Mobility and Subsistence. He is also the author, with David Hurst Thomas, of the widely-used textbooks Archaeology and Archaeology: Down to Earth, the pedagogical CD Doing Fieldwork, and, with Thomas and Peter Dawson, a Canadian version of Archaeology. LCCC, Room 111, Health Science Building. Map it. For more information, feel free to contact Dan Bach at 307-287-3334 or Russ Kaldenberg at 307-772-9317.
