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PUBLICATIONS

Edited Books and Journals

2021     Kelly, KG. Editor, Connecting Continents:  Rice Cultivation in South Carolina and the Guinea Coast. Routledge.

 

2015    Kelly, KG. Guest Editor, Journal of Atlantic Studies Global Current Special Issue Connecting Continents:  South Carolina and the Guinea Coast. http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjas20/current

 

2014    Kelly, KG. and Benoit Bérard, eds. Bitasion: Archéologie des Habitations-Plantations des Petites Antilles/Lesser Antilles Plantation Archaeology.  Taboui no. 1, Caribbean Archaeology Series, Sidestone Press.

 

2011    Kelly, KG. and Meredith D. Hardy, eds. French Colonial Archaeology in the Southeast and Caribbean.  University Presses of Florida. 250 pages.

 

2009    Mark Hauser, and Kelly, KG., eds. “Scale and locality in the Caribbean.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 13(1) 216 pp.

 

2004    Kelly, KG. Guest Editor, Journal of Caribbean Archaeology Special Issue No. 1. Historical Archaeology in the French Caribbean. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/jca/

Journal Publications

2019     Hauser, Mark; Armstrong, Douglas V.; Wallman, Diane; Kelly, KG.; and Lennox Honychurch. “Where Strangers Met: Evidence for Early Commerce at LaSoye Point, Dominica.”  Antiquity. 

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2017    Kelly, KG. “J.C. Harrington Medal in Historical Archaeology:  Leland Greer Ferguson.”  Historical Archaeology 51(2): 149-54.

 

2015    Kelly, KG. “Rice and its consequences in the greater “Atlantic” world.”  Atlantic Studies 12(3): 273-275.

 

2015    Kelly, KG. and Elhadj Ibrahima Fall “Employing archaeology to (dis)entangle the nineteenth-century illegal slave trade on the Rio Pongo, Guinea.”  Atlantic Studies 12(3): 317-335.

 

2014    Kelly, KG. and Diane Wallman “Enslaved Laborer Plantation Foodways in the FWI,” Afriques [on line], 05 | 2014, mis en ligne le 15 décembre 2014, consulté le 05 janvier 2015. URL : http://afriques.revues.org/1608

 

2013    Kelly, KG. “La Vie Quotidienne des Habitations Sucrières aux Antilles:  l’archéologie à la découverte d’une histoire cachée.”  In Situ—Revue de patrimoines. [En ligne], 20 | 2013, mis en ligne le 14 février 2013, consulté le 27 avril 2013. URL : http://insitu.revues.org/10160

 

2011    Kelly, KG. CA Comment on “’In the Belly of Dan’:  Space, History and Power in Precolonial Dahomey.”  In Current Anthropology 52(6): 787-788. December 2011

 

2009    Kelly, KG. “Where is the Caribbean?  French Colonial Archaeology in the English Lake.”  In Special issue edited by Mark Hauser and Kenneth G. Kelly. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 13(1):80-93.

 

2009    Kelly, KG. and Mark Hauser “Preface.”  In Special issue edited by Mark Hauser and Kenneth G. Kelly. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 13(1):1-2.

 

2008    Kelly, KG., Mark Hauser, Christophe Descantes, and Michael D. Glascock   “Compositional analysis of French colonial ceramics.”  Journal of Caribbean Archaeology Special Publication 2:85-107.  http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/JCA/kelly_etal.pdf

 

2008    Kelly, KG. “Creole Cultures of the Caribbean:  Historical Archaeology in the French West Indies.”  Special issue “The Archaeology of French Colonial and Post-Colonial Settlements” edited by Elizabeth Scott. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 12(4) 388-402. 

 

2008    Kelly, KG. “Plantation archaeology in the French West Indies.”  In Rêves d’Amériques: Regard sur l’archéologie de la Nouvelle-France / Dreams of the Americas:  Overview of New France Archaeology, Archéologiques, Hors série 2, Christian Roy and Hélène Côté, editors.  Quebec. Pages 55-69.

 

2004    Norman, Neil, and Kelly, KG.  “Landscape Politics:  The Serpent Ditch and the Rainbow in West Africa (with).”  In American Anthropologist 106(1):98-110.

 

2004    Kelly, KG. “Historical Archaeology in the French Caribbean:  An Introduction to a Special Volume of the International Journal of Caribbean Archaeology.”  In Journal of Caribbean Archaeology Special Issue No. 1: 1-10.  Kenneth G. Kelly, guest editor.  http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/jca/

 

2002    Kelly, KG. “African Diaspora Archaeology in Guadeloupe, French West Indies.” Antiquity, 76 June 2002:333-334.

 

2000    Armstrong, Douglas V., and Kelly, KG.  “Settlement Pattern Shifts in a Jamaican Slave Village, Seville Estate, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica”. Ethnohistory 47(2): 369-397.

 

1997    Kelly, KG. “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    Kelly, KG. “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.

Book Chapters

2019     Kelly, KG. “Nineteenth Century Coastal Guinea:  Manifestations of the ‘Illegal’ Slave Trade in a Local System.”  In Power, Political Economy, and Historical Landscapes of the Modern World:  Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Christopher R. DeCorse (ed.), SUNY Press.

 

2019     Wallman, Diane, and Kelly, KG. “An Investigation of Daily Practice among Slave and Sharecropper Households on an 18th-19th century French-Caribbean Plantation.”  In Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean”. Contextualizing Sites through Colonialism, Capitalism, and Globalism, Todd M. Ahlman and Gerald F. Schroedl (eds.), University of Alabama Press, 107-131.

 

2019     Kelly, KG. “Building a better village?  Transformations in French West Indian slave village architecture from the Ancien Régime to emancipation.”  In Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean. James Delle and Elizabeth Clay (eds), University of Florida Press, 66-86.

 

2019     Gibson, Heather, and Kelly, KG. “Caribbean Contradictions: Entangled networks, slavery and the French West Indies.”  In The Historical Archaeology of Shadow and Intimate Economies, James Nyman, Kevin Fogle, and Mary Beaudry (eds), University Press of Florida, 93-111.

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2017    Kelly, KG. “Sugar plantations in the French West Indies:  Archaeological perspectives from Guadeloupe and Martinique.”  In Archaeological Perspectives on the French in the New World, Elizabeth Scott (ed.), University Press of Florida, 218-239.

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2015 (published in 2017)        Kelly, KG. “(African) Atlantic Creoles.”  In Preserving African Cultural Heritage, Ibrahima Thiaw and Hamady Bocoum (eds), Memoires de l’IFAN, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, no. 93, 415-422.

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2014    Kelly, KG. “Les ‘Rues Cases Nègres:’  archeology de la vie des esclaves dans les Antilles françaises.”  In Archéologie de l’esclavage colonial, André Depuech and Jean-Paul Jacob (eds). Paris: La Découverte /INRAP, pp. 199-213.

 

2014    Kelly, KG. “The Context of Plantation Archaeology in the Lesser Antilles:  Multi-disciplinary, Multi-cultural, Pluri-national.”  In Kelly, KG. and Benoit Bérard, eds. Bitasion: Archéologie des Habitations-Plantations des Petites Antilles/Lesser Antilles Plantation Archaeology.  Taboui no. 1, Caribbean Archaeology Series, Sidestone Press, pp. 165-174.

 

2014    Kelly, KG. “Archaeology, Plantations, and Slavery in the French West Indies.”  In Kelly, KG. and Benoit Bérard, eds. Bitasion: Archéologie des Habitations-Plantations des Petites Antilles/Lesser Antilles Plantation Archaeology.  Taboui no. 1, Caribbean Archaeology Series, Sidestone Press, pp. 17-31.

 

2013    Kelly, KG. “Connecting the archaeologies of the Atlantic World:  African and the African Diaspora.”  In Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology.  Peter Mitchell and Paul J. Lane (eds).  Oxford:  Oxford University Press.  Pp 999-1012.

 

2011    Kelly, KG. “Archaeological Perspectives on the Atlantic Slave Trade:  Contrasts in Time and Space in Bénin and Guinea.”  In Slavery in Africa:  Archaeology and Memory.  Paul J. Lane and Kevin C. MacDonald (eds).  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, Proceedings of the British Academy 168: 125-146.  

 

2011    Kelly, KG. “La Vie Quotidienne:  Historical Archaeological Approaches to the Plantation Era in Guadeloupe, French West Indies.”  In French Colonial Archaeology in the Southeast and Caribbean.  Kenneth G. Kelly and Meredith D. Hardy (eds).  University Presses of Florida. Pages 189-205.

 

2011    Kelly, KG. and Meredith D. Hardy “Introduction.”  In French Colonial Archaeology in the Southeast and Caribbean.  Kenneth G. Kelly and Meredith D. Hardy (eds).  University Presses of Florida. Pages 1-16.

 

2011    Hauser, Mark, and Kelly, KG.  “Colonies without Frontiers:  Inter-Island Trade in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Caribbean.”  Islands at the Crossroads:  Migration, Seafaring, and Interaction in the Caribbean.  L. Antonio Curet and Mark W. Hauser (eds) University of Alabama Press.  Pages 41-56.

 

2011    Kelly, KG., Mark Hauser and Douglas Armstrong   “Identity And Opportunity in Post-Slavery Jamaica.”  In Out of Many, One People:  The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Jamaica.  James A. Delle, Mark W. Hauser, and Douglas V. Armstrong (eds). University of Alabama Press.  Pages 243-257.

 

2010    Kelly, KG. “Arenas of Action:  Trade as Power, Trade as Identity.”  In Social Archaeologies of Trade and Exchange:  Exploring Relationships among People, Places, and Things, edited by Anna Agbe-Davies and Alexander Bauer.  Left Coast Press.  Pages 99-117.

 

2009    Kelly, KG. “Controlling Traders:  Slave Coast Strategies at Savi and Ouidah.”  Chapter Seven in Bridging Early Modern Atlantic Worlds:  People, Products, and Practices on the Move (ed. Caroline A. Williams).  Ashgate. Pages 151-171.

 

2007    Kelly, KG., and Neil L. Norman  “Historical Archaeologies of Landscape in Atlantic Africa.”  Chapter 8 in Envisioning Landscape:  Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage. Dan Hicks, Laura McAtackney and Graham Fairclough, editors.  Left Coast Press.  Pages 172-193.

 

2007    Kelly, KG. “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    Mark Hauser,  Kelly, KG., and Douglas V. Armstrong  “What to do with ‘other’ ceramics: Inter-colonial trade of French coarse earthenware.”  In Proceedings of the XXI International Congress of Caribbean Archaeology, University of the West Indies, Trinidad, Vol. 2, pp 579-587.

 

2007    Lomer, Sylvie, and Kelly, KG.  “’C'était bien là’:  Local Responses to Archaeological Investigations at La Mahaudière, Guadeloupe.” In Proceedings of the XXI International Congress of Caribbean Archaeology, University of the West Indies, Trinidad.  Vol. 1, pp 170-176.

 

2006    Kelly, KG., and Neil L. Norman “Medium Vessels and the Longue Durée.”  In African Re-Genesis:  Confronting Social Issues of the African Diaspora. Jay Haviser and Kevin MacDonald, editors.  Routledge, pages 223-234.

 

2005    Kelly, KG., and Heather Gibson “Plantation Village Archaeology in Guadeloupe, French West Indies.”  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 Arevalo.

 

2005    Kelly, KG. “Historical Archaeology.”  In The Handbook of Archaeological Methods, Herbert Maschner and Christopher Chippendale, editors.  Altimira Press, pages 1108-1137.

 

2004    Kelly, KG. “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.

 

2002    Kelly, KG. “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.

 

2001    Kelly, KG. “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    Kelly, KG. “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.

 

1996    Kelly, KG. “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.

 

1991    Kelly, KG, and Douglas V. Armstrong  “Archaeological Investigations of a 19th Century Free Laborer House, Seville Estate, St. Ann's, Jamaica.” In Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Caribbean Archaeologists. Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles; pp. 429-435.

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