Here is a list of papers that I have presented at conferences and have published.  I hope that you find something interesting here.

 

Dr. Kenneth Goodley Kelly

 

PUBLICATIONS

2007

 “Archaeology of the Creole Cultures of the French West Indies.” In Proceedings of the XXI International Congress of Caribbean Archaeology, University of the West Indies, Trinidad. Vol. 2, pp 588-595.

 

2007

 “What to do with ‘other’ ceramics: Inter-colonial trade of French coarse earthenware” (with Mark Hauser and Douglas V. Armstrong). In Proceedings of the XXI International Congress of Caribbean Archaeology, University of the West Indies, Trinidad, Vol. 2, pp 579-587.

 

2007

 “’C'était bien là’: Local Responses to Archaeological Investigations at La Mahaudière, Guadeloupe” (with Sylvie Lomer). In Proceedings of the XXI International Congress of Caribbean Archaeology, University of the West Indies, Trinidad. Vol. 1, pp 170-176.

 

2006

 “Medium Vessels and the Longue Durée” (with Neil L. Norman). In African Re-Genesis: Confronting Social Issues of the African Diaspora. Jay Haviser and Kevin MacDonald, editors. Routledge, pages 223-234.

 

2006

 “Preliminary Archaeological Reconnaissance of Sites Related to the Slave Trade Era Along the Upper Rio Pongo, Guinea.” In Nyame Akuma 65:24-32

 

2006

 “Current Research, Guinea, West Africa.” In SHA Newsletter, Spring 2006 39(1): 18-19.

 

2005

“ Plantation Village Archaeology in Guadeloupe, French West Indies” (with Heather Gibson). In Congreso Internacional de Archeologica del Caribe, Vol. II, edited by Clenis Tavarez and Manuel A. Garcia-Arevalo, pp. 789-798.  Santo Domingo: Museo del Hombre Dominicano and Fondacion Garcia Arvela.

 

2005

"Historical Archaeology." Chapter for The Handbook of Archaeological Methods, Herbert Maschner and Christopher Chippendale, editors. Altimira Press, pages 1108-1137.

 

2004

"Landscape Politics: The Serpent Ditch and the Rainbow in West Africa (with Neil Norman)." In American Anthropologist 106(1):98-110

 

2004

Guest Editor, International Journal of Caribbean Archaeology Special Issue No. 1. Historical Archaeology in the French Caribbean.

 

2004

"Historical Archaeology in the French Caribbean: An Introduction to a Special Volume of the International Journal of Caribbean Archaeology." In International Journal of Caribbean Archaeology Special Issue No. 1: 1-10. Kenneth G. Kelly, guest editor.

 

2004

"The African Diaspora Starts Here: Historical Archaeology in Coastal West Africa." In African Historical Archaeologies, edited by Paul Lane and Andrew Reid. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, New York, pages 219-241.

 

2003

"Habitation La Mahaudiére, Asne Bertrand, " "Habition Grande Pointe, Trois Riviéres." In Bilan Scientifique de la Direction régionale des affaires culturelles, Guadeloupe, edited by Antoine Chancerel.  Basse Terre, Guadeloupe.  Pages 13-15 (La Mahaudiére), 51-53 (Grand Pointe).

 

2003

"An archaeologist of the African Diaspora." Cornerstone: the magazine of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina, Winter 2003, vol. 4(3):10, 11, 15, 21.

 

2003

"Archaeology in the Atlantic World: African Diaspora in Guadeloupe, French West Indies." Global Connections (The Newsletter of the Richard L. Waker Institute for International Studies, College of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolia). Vol. 8(2) March 2003: 7,8.

2002

"African Diaspora Archaeology in Guadeloupe, French West Indies." Antiquity, 76 June 2002:333-334.

 

2002

"Indigenous Responses to Colonial Encounters on the West African Coast: Hueda and Dahomey from the 17th through 19th Centuries." In The Archaeology of Colonialism, edited by Claire L. Lyons and John Papadopoulos. Issues and Debates series, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA., pages 96-120.

 

2002

"Benin City, Nigeria." In The Encyclopedia of Historical Archaeology, edited by C. Orser, London, Routledge, pages 55-6.

 

2001

"Change and Continuity in Coastal Bénin." In West Africa During the Atlantic Slave Trade: Archaeological Perspectives, edited by Christopher DeCorse, Leicester University Press, pages 81-100.

 

2001

"La Diáspora Africana desde sus Fundamentos." In Rutas de Esclavitud en Africa y América Latina," edited by Rina Caceres, Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, pages 167-183.

 

2000

"Settlement Pattern Shifts in a Jamaican Slave Village, Seville Estate, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica" (with Douglas V. Armstrong). Ethnohistory 47(2): 369-397.

 

1999

"Report on the 1999 Field Season at Savi, Republic of Bénin" (with Peggy Brunache and Neil Norman) Nyame Akuma 52: 2-10.

 

1997

"Using Historically Informed Archaeology: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Hueda / European Interaction on the Coast of Bénin." Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (3/4): 353-366.

 

1997

"The Archaeology of African-European Interaction: Investigating the Social Roles of Trade, Traders, and the Use of Space in the 17th and 18th c. Hueda Kingdom, Republic of Bénin." World Archaeology 28 (3): 77-95

 

1997

"Trade in West Africa and the Western Sahara" and "Slavery in Africa." In The Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa: Archaeology, History, Languages, Culture, and Environments, Edited by J. Vogel, Walnut Creek, CA; Altamira Press, pp. 529-535

 

1997

"Benin", "Slave Entrepots", "Slave Coast", and "Trade Goods" entries in The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery, two vols, J. P. Rodriguez, ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press.

 

1996

"Report on the 1996 Field Season: Savi, Republic of Bénin." Nyame Akuma 46: 2-5.

 

1996

"Trade Contacts and Social Change: the Archaeology of the Hueda Kingdom, Republic of Bénin." In Aspects of African Archaeology. R. Soper and G. Pwiti, editors, Harare; University of Zimbabwe Press, pp. 687-691.

 

1994

"Recent Excavations at Savi: an 18th Century West African trade town," Nyame Akuma 41:2-8, June.

 

1991

"Archaeological Investigations of a 19th Century Free Laborer House, Seville Estate, St. Ann's, Jamaica" (with Douglas V. Armstrong). In Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Caribbean Archaeologists. Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles; pp. 429-435.

 

1988

A Bibliography of Caribbean Archaeology. Williamsburg, VA; Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary.

 

PAPERS PRESENTED

2007

"Identity and Opportunity in Post-Slavery Jamaica" in the session "200 Years: The impact of the epochs in Jamaican historical archaeology." World Archaeological Congress (WAC) Intercongress, Kingston, Jamaica, May 25, 2007.

2007

“Working Space: Archaeological Perspectives on Plantation Villages in the French West Indies.” Built Environments of Atlantic Slavery, Fernand Braudel Center, Binghampton University, April 27, 2007.

2007

“From French West Africa to the French West Indies: Arcaheological Approaches to a Neglected Region.” Archaeological Society of South Carolina, Hilton Head Chapter, April 17, 2007.

2007

“Historical Archaeology in the French Caribbean: Archaeology, Slavery, and Trade.” Explorers Club, Greater Piedmont Chapter, Columbia, April 13, 2007.

2007

“From French West Africa to the French Caribbean: Archaeology, Slavery, and an Africanist Perspective.” Abolition 2007: Archaeology and Heritiage of Africans in the New World conference, University College London, March 31, 2007.

2007

“Archaeological Perspectives on the Atlantic Slave Trade: Contrasts in Space and Time in Bénin and Guinea.” The Archaeological and Historical Dimensions of Slavery conference, University College London, March 24, 2007.

2007

“Caribbean Connections: Implications of French colonial archaeology for understanding trade.” Paper presented at the 33 rd Annual Conference on South Carolina Archaeology, February 17, 2007.

2007

“Off the beaten path: Archaeology and the African Diaspora in the French Caribbean and Francophone West Africa.” Paper presented at the 40 th annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Williamsburg, VA, January 2007.

2007

“Cabotage in the Eastern Caribbean: Analysis of regional trade through INAA of island-made ceramics (with Mark Hauser).” Paper presented at the 40 th annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Williamsburg, VA, January 2007.

2006

“The Challenges of Introducing African Diaspora Archaeology in the French West Indies.” Paper presented at the conference “ La herencía afrícana en el récord arqueológíco” sponsored by the Oficina Estatal de Conservación Histórica, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 2006.

2006

“Colonies without frontiers: inter-island trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth century Caribbean (with Mark Hauser).” Paper presented in the opening plenary session “Islands in the Stream: Interisland and Continental Interaction in the Caribbean” at the 71 stannual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2006.

2006

“Cabotage or Contraband: Compositional Analysis of French Colonial Ceramics (with Mark Hauser).” Paper presented at the 71 stannual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2006.

2006

“Cabotage or Contraband: Compositional Analysis of French Colonial Ceramics (with Mark Hauser).” Paper presented at the 71 stannual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2006.

2005

“Controlling Traders: Slave Coast Strategies at Savi and Ouidah.” Paper presented at the Colston Research Society Symposium: Pioneers, Adventurers and the Creation of the Atlantic World. University of Bristol, September 2005.

2005

“’C’était bien là’: Local Responses to Archaeological Investigations at La Mahaudière, Guadeloupe (with Sylvie Lomer).” Paper presented at the 21st Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. July 2005

2005

“What to do with “other” ceramics: Inter-colonial trade of French Coarse Earthenwares (with Mark Hauser and Douglas V. Armstrong).” Paper presented at the 21st Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. July 2005

2005

“Archaeology of the Creole Cultures of the French West Indies.” Paper presented at the 21st Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. July 2005

2005

“Memory, Archaeology, and a Diasporic Past (with Mark Hauser).” Paper presented at the 2005 Society for Post Medieval Archaeology Conference, Nevis, West Indies. June 2005

2005

“Plantation Archaeology in the French West Indies: Two Examples from Guadeloupe.” Paper presented at the 2005 Society for Post Medieval Archaeology Conference, Nevis, West Indies. June 2005

2005

“French Colonial Archaeology in the Caribbean: Investigating an under-researched region.” Paper presented in the symposium entitled Defining the Local for the 2005 Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, York, United Kingdom. January 2005

2004

“Arenas of Action:  Trade as Power, Trade as Identity”  Paper presented in the session “Rethinking Trade as Social Activity,” Society for American Archaeology, Montreal , Quebec , April 2004.

2004

““La Vie Quotidienne”  Historical Archaeological Approaches to Plantation Slavery in Guadeloupe , FWI.”  Paper presented in the session “French colonial archaeology of the southeastern United States , Gulf Coast , and the Caribbean region,” Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Louis , Missouri , January 2004.

2003

“Historical Archaeology of Slavery in Guadeloupe, French West Indies (with Heather Gibson).”  Paper presented at the Ste. Genevieve Conference on French Settlements and Cultures in North America and the Caribbean , Ste. Genevieve, MO, November 2003.

2003

Plantation Village Archaeology in Guadeloupe, French West Indies (with Heather Gibson).”  Paper presented at the 20th biannual meeting of the International Congress of Caribbean Archaeology, Santo Domingo , Domincan Republic , June 2003.

2003

“Windows on Atlantic Identities:  West Africa / East Caribbean .”  Paper presented at the 68th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee , Wisconsin , April 2003.

2003

“Windows on Atlantic Identities:  West Africa / East Caribbean .”  Paper presented at the 68th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee , Wisconsin , April 2003.

2002

"Medium Vessels and the Longue Durée: Ritual Pottery in the African Diaspora" (with Neil L. Norman). Paper presented at the 16th Biennial Conference of the Society for Africanist Archaeologists, Tucson, AZ, May 13-21, 2002.

 

2002

"The Other Caribbean: Historical Archaeology in Guadeloupe, French West Indies" (with Peggy Brunache). Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Mobile, Alabama.

 

2001

"And How Did the Other Half Live? The Potential for Historical Archaeology of the African Diaspora in the Francophone Caribbean." Paper at the Archaeology of the African Diaspora Conference, Univeristy of Michigan. November 30-December2, 2001.

 

2001

"Medium Vessels and the Longue Durée" (with Neil L. Norman). Paper presented in the Symposium "Global Processes and Local Identities in the African Diaspora" at the World Archaeological Congress Inter-Congress on the African Diaspora, Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. April 23-29, 2001.

 

2000

"Historical Archaeology in Coastal Bénin: Savi and Its Place in the Atlantic Trade." Paper presented at the 15th Biennial Conference of the Society for Africanist Archaeologists, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

 

2000

"African Archaeology : Diaspora Archaeology: The Importance of African Historical Archaeology in a Diasporic Perspective." Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Quebec City, Canada.

 

1999

"The African Diaspora from the Ground Up: The Importance of Historical Archaeology for Diaspora Studies." Paper presented at the conference "La Ruta del Esclavo en Hispanoamérica," University of Costa Rica, San José.

 

1999

"Indigenous Responses to Colonial Encounters on the West African Coast: Hueda and Dahomey from the 17th through 19th Centuries." Paper presented at the World Archaeological Congress, Cape Town, South Africa

 

1998

"Long Distance Trade and State Formation: the Archaeology of the Hueda State, Bénin, West Africa." Paper presented at the 14th Biennial Conference of the Society for Africanist Archaeologists, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.

 

1998

"Masters of Opportunity: Political and Economic Responses to European Contact on the West African Coast." Paper presented at the 62nd Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Seattle, WA.

 

1996

"African History / African Archaeology: Towards an Understanding of the Social Consequences of European/African Trade in West Africa." Paper presented at the 60th Society for American Archaeology Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

 

1995

"The Archaeology of Interregional Interaction: Towards an Understanding of the Social Roles of Trade in the 17th and 18th c. Hueda Kingdom, Republic of Bénin." Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, Washington, D.C.

 

1995

"Archaeology and African-European Interaction: the Role of Trade in the 17th and 18th C. Hueda Kingdom, Republic of Bénin." Paper presented at the Archaeology in Africa Day Meeting, British Museum, London.

 

1995

"Trade Contacts and Social Change: the Archaeology of the Hueda Kingdom, Republic of Bénin." Paper presented at the 10th Congress of the Pan African Association for Prehistory and Related Studies, Harare, Zimbabwe.

 

1995

"Understanding the Social Effects of Trade: an Example from West Africa." Paper presented at the 28th Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Washington, D.C.

 

1994

"Archaeological Research at Savi, a West African Trade Town: Transformation and Continuity in Early 18th Century African Town Life." Paper presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Indiana University.

 

1994

"Recent Excavations at Savi, an 18th Century West African Trade Town in Bénin." Paper presented at the 58th Society for American Archaeology Conference, Anaheim, CA.

 

1994

"Recent Excavations at Savi, an 18th Century West African Trade Town." Paper presented at the UCLA Friends of Archaeology Symposium, UCLA.

 

1994

"Savi, an 18th Century West African Trade Town." Paper presented at the 27th Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia.

 

1993

"The Portuguese Impact on West Africa: Archaeological and Historical Information from the West African Coast." Paper presented at the 26th Society for Historical Archaeology Conference.

 

1992

"Preliminary Historic Archaeological Research at Ouidah, Bénin." Paper presented at the 11th Biennial Conference of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, UCLA, Los Angeles, California.

 

1992

"Spatial Transformations in African Jamaican Housing at Seville Plantation" (with Douglas V. Armstrong). Paper presented at the 25th Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Kingston, Jamaica.

 

1991

"Processes of Change and Patterns of Meaning in a Jamaican Slave Village" (with Douglas V. Armstrong). Paper presented at the 55th Society for American Archaeology Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.

 

1990

"Settlement Pattern Shifts in a Jamaican Slave Village, Seville Estate, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica" (with Douglas V. Armstrong). Paper presented at the 23rd Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Tucson, Arizona.

 

1989

"Between Slave and Free: the Historic Archaeology of Jamaican Tenant-Manager Relations." Paper presented at the First Joint Archaeological Congress, Baltimore, Maryland.

 

1989

"Archaeological Investigations of a 19th Century Free Laborer House, Seville Estate, St. Ann's, Jamaica" (with Douglas V. Armstrong). Paper presented at the 13th International Congress of Caribbean Archaeologists, Willemstad, Curaçao.