Kenneth G Kelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 223236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth G Kelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth G |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelly |
| SIGNATURE | KELLY K G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 257 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Memorial: Leland Greer Ferguson (1941–2023)
Woody Resources as a Medium for Colonial Engagement: Explaining the Artifactual and Architectural Record at La Soye, Dominica
Wood and other tree byproducts were significant commodities in contexts of early colonial economies, but few archaeological studies focus on these resources. This article presents historical and archaeological evidence of the exploitation of woody resources for the purpose of naval stores and export at the site of La Soye, Dominica, Eastern Caribbean, beginning in the 1580s and continuing until the first quarter of the eighteenth century. This re…
Where strangers met: Evidence for early commerce at LaSoye Point, Dominica
The Slave Trade and Coastal West Africa
The Atlantic slave trade has been the focus of archaeological work in a number of West African countries. Much of the work has emphasized the impressive trade castles of the Ghana coast, where extensive European constructions demonstrate the importance of the slave trade in the regions’ history. Work has also been conducted on other settings, including in Bénin, where African agency manifested itself differently than on the Gold Coast of modern G…
Sugar Plantations in the French West Indies: Archaeological Perspectives from Guadeloupe and Martinique
J. C. Harrington Medal in Historical Archaeology: Leland Greer Ferguson
Rice and its consequences in the greater “Atlantic” world
Plantation slavery and rice agriculture in the Carolina Lowcountry drew upon captive Africans from a wide area of the African continent, but particular note has been made of the contributions of enslaved Africans originating in the Upper Guinea coast region who had sophisticated knowledge of indigenous rice agriculture. The “Black Rice Hypotheses” argues that their knowledge was crucial to the successful plantation regimes. Papers collected in th…
Employing archaeology to (dis)entangle the nineteenth-century illegal slave trade on the Rio Pongo, Guinea
Archaeological research conducted on the Rio Pongo, Guinea, has explored the setting of the nineteenth century “illegal” slave trade and its consequences for the European, American, and African traders engaged in that commerce. Excavated material, coupled with mapping of archaeological features, is employed to investigate the degree to which the trading entities and the local residents were entangled in the Atlantic World that spanned four contin…
Ethnic ambiguity and the African past: Materiality, History, and the Shaping of Cultural Identities
Foodways of Enslaved Laborers on French West Indian Plantations (18th-19th century)
In the plantation settlements of the Americas, enslaved Africans and their descendants were compelled to create a system of foodways that provided sufficient nutrition for their survival and that could be assembled out of the resources available to them. The ability of the enslaved plantation workers to do this is a testament to their creativity, and the cuisine they developed lives on today in the creole foods of the former slave colonies. The f…
La vie quotidienne des habitations sucrières aux Antilles: L’archéologie à la découverte d’une histoire cachée
L’archéologie historique nous aide à cerner les conditions de survie des esclaves d’habitations sucrières aux Antilles françaises et de décrire les changements de pratiques et le détournement d’objets marquant la naissance de la culture créole. L’archéologie prête une voix aux « personnes sans histoire » en étudiant les traces concrètes de leurs vies quotidiennes : architecture, utilisation de l’espace, objets. Les vestiges concrets peuvent aussi…
Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora
Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora, edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran and Toyin Falola, Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 2007, 509pp., $59.95, ISBN 978-0-253
Sainte-Anne (Martinique). Habitation Crève-Cœur
La fouille dirigée par le Dr Kenneth G. Kelly (Université de Caroline du Sud, États-Unis) sur les vestiges de l’Habitation Crève-Cœur, une plantation des xviiie et xixe s., s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une enquête sur l’esclavage dans les plantations des Indes occidentales françaises. Cette recherche a pour objectif de cerner la manière dont l’influence de chaque colonie française se manifeste dans le développement des sociétés créoles à cette époqu…
Where is the Caribbean? French Colonial Archaeology in the English Lake
Creole Cultures of the Caribbean: Historical Archaeology in the French West Indies
Ancient Middle Niger: Urbanism and the Self-Organizing Landscape
Ancient Middle Niger: Urbanism and the Self-Organizing Landscape. Roderick J. McIntosh. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 261 pp
The African Diaspora Starts Here: Historical Archaeology of Coastal West Africa
Landscape Politics: The Serpent Ditch and the Rainbow in West Africa
Anthropologists and archaeologists have long been interested in the intersection of social, political, and religious institutions and landscape features. Recent efforts have been aimed at elucidating the tensions between the perception and description of such features among Western and non-Western groups. This article seeks to contribute to this project through an analysis of a series of massive ditches (c. 17th-19th centuries A.D.) in southern B…
Making History in Banda: Anthropological Visions of Africa's Past
Ann B. Stahl. Making History in Banda: Anthropological Visions of Africa's Past. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xix + 268 pp. Photographs. Drawings. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Price not reported. Cloth. Ann B. Stahl has provided an important and long-awaited contribution to the growing list of monograph-length archaeological studies of later African history. An examination of this period is crucial to developing an increasing…
African Diaspora archaeology in Guadeloupe, French West Indies
Provides information on an investigation into the archaeology of the African diaspora in Guadeloupe, French West Indies. Use of historical cartographic data; History of French slavery at the site; Goals of the research
Settlement Patterns and the Origins of African Jamaican Society: Seville Plantation, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica
Archaeological and historical research at Seville Plantation, Jamaica, are used to explain changes in settlement patterns within the estate's African Jamaican community between 1670 and the late nineteenth century. Sugar plantations, such as Seville, are marked by well-de.ned spatial order based upon economic and power relations that was imposed upon enslaved communities by planters andmanagers. Archaeological evidence is used to explore how ensl…
Using historically informed archaeology: Seventeenth and eighteenth century Hueda/European interaction on the coast of Bénin
The archaeology of African-European interaction: Investigating the social roles of trade, traders, and the use of space in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuryHuedaKingdom, Republic of Bénin
Archaeological research has been underway at the site of the town of Savi, on the coast of Bénin, West Africa, since 1991. Savi grew to international fame in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as the capital of the Hueda (Whydah) Kingdom, and a port of great importance in the trans‐Atlantic slave trade. Traders of many European nations, including the Netherlands, England, France, and Portugal, maintained permanent trading establishments in …
Agricultural Change in Hooghly, 1850–1910∗
The response of individual tenant farmers to the demands of the Calcutta market created a region of diversified commercial agriculture around that metropolis. The distinctive character of the half of this region west of the Hooghly River was evident by 1850, but became more pronounced during the second half of the nineteenth century. Although it also produced fine rice, jute, inferior pulses, and a number of minor crops, the area developed increa…
The Artificial Drainage of Land in Nineteenth‐century Southern Ontario
Settlement Patterns and the Origins of African Jamaican Society: Seville Plantation, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica
Archaeological and historical research at Seville Plantation, Jamaica, are used to explain changes in settlement patterns within the estate's African Jamaican community between 1670 and the late nineteenth century. Sugar plantations, such as Seville, are marked by well-de.ned spatial order based upon economic and power relations that was imposed upon enslaved communities by planters andmanagers. Archaeological evidence is used to explore how ensl…
The archaeology of African-European interaction: Investigating the social roles of trade, traders, and the use of space in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuryHuedaKingdom, Republic of Bénin
Archaeological research has been underway at the site of the town of Savi, on the coast of Bénin, West Africa, since 1991. Savi grew to international fame in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as the capital of the Hueda (Whydah) Kingdom, and a port of great importance in the trans‐Atlantic slave trade. Traders of many European nations, including the Netherlands, England, France, and Portugal, maintained permanent trading establishments in …
Ancient Middle Niger: Urbanism and the Self-Organizing Landscape
Ancient Middle Niger: Urbanism and the Self-Organizing Landscape. Roderick J. McIntosh. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 261 pp
Landscape Politics: The Serpent Ditch and the Rainbow in West Africa
Anthropologists and archaeologists have long been interested in the intersection of social, political, and religious institutions and landscape features. Recent efforts have been aimed at elucidating the tensions between the perception and description of such features among Western and non-Western groups. This article seeks to contribute to this project through an analysis of a series of massive ditches (c. 17th-19th centuries A.D.) in southern B…
Using historically informed archaeology: Seventeenth and eighteenth century Hueda/European interaction on the coast of Bénin
Creole Cultures of the Caribbean: Historical Archaeology in the French West Indies
Foodways of Enslaved Laborers on French West Indian Plantations (18th-19th century)
In the plantation settlements of the Americas, enslaved Africans and their descendants were compelled to create a system of foodways that provided sufficient nutrition for their survival and that could be assembled out of the resources available to them. The ability of the enslaved plantation workers to do this is a testament to their creativity, and the cuisine they developed lives on today in the creole foods of the former slave colonies. The f…
Where is the Caribbean? French Colonial Archaeology in the English Lake
Wheat Farming in Simcoe County in the Mid‐nineteenth Century
African Diaspora archaeology in Guadeloupe, French West Indies
Provides information on an investigation into the archaeology of the African diaspora in Guadeloupe, French West Indies. Use of historical cartographic data; History of French slavery at the site; Goals of the research
La vie quotidienne des habitations sucrières aux Antilles: L’archéologie à la découverte d’une histoire cachée
L’archéologie historique nous aide à cerner les conditions de survie des esclaves d’habitations sucrières aux Antilles françaises et de décrire les changements de pratiques et le détournement d’objets marquant la naissance de la culture créole. L’archéologie prête une voix aux « personnes sans histoire » en étudiant les traces concrètes de leurs vies quotidiennes : architecture, utilisation de l’espace, objets. Les vestiges concrets peuvent aussi…
Where strangers met: Evidence for early commerce at LaSoye Point, Dominica
Rice and its consequences in the greater “Atlantic” world
Plantation slavery and rice agriculture in the Carolina Lowcountry drew upon captive Africans from a wide area of the African continent, but particular note has been made of the contributions of enslaved Africans originating in the Upper Guinea coast region who had sophisticated knowledge of indigenous rice agriculture. The “Black Rice Hypotheses” argues that their knowledge was crucial to the successful plantation regimes. Papers collected in th…
Making History in Banda: Anthropological Visions of Africa's Past
Ann B. Stahl. Making History in Banda: Anthropological Visions of Africa's Past. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xix + 268 pp. Photographs. Drawings. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Price not reported. Cloth. Ann B. Stahl has provided an important and long-awaited contribution to the growing list of monograph-length archaeological studies of later African history. An examination of this period is crucial to developing an increasing…
The Artificial Drainage of Land in Nineteenth‐century Southern Ontario
Land-Use Regions in the Central and Northern Portions of the Inca Empire
The Central Andean civilization was developed within a fairly well-defined ecumene (oekumene), beyond which the possibilities for expansion were limited. With population increase each pattern of land use was extended into all physically suitable areas. It is, therefore, possible to use interpolation to delimit and describe land-use regions within the Inca Empire, extending data pertaining to a specific location to all physically similar areas wit…
Land-Use Regions in the Central and Northern Portions of the Inca Empire
The Central Andean civilization was developed within a fairly well-defined ecumene (oekumene), beyond which the possibilities for expansion were limited. With population increase each pattern of land use was extended into all physically suitable areas. It is, therefore, possible to use interpolation to delimit and describe land-use regions within the Inca Empire, extending data pertaining to a specific location to all physically similar areas wit…
Wheat Farming in Simcoe County in the Mid‐nineteenth Century
The Artificial Drainage of Land in Nineteenth‐century Southern Ontario
Agricultural Change in Hooghly, 1850–1910∗
The response of individual tenant farmers to the demands of the Calcutta market created a region of diversified commercial agriculture around that metropolis. The distinctive character of the half of this region west of the Hooghly River was evident by 1850, but became more pronounced during the second half of the nineteenth century. Although it also produced fine rice, jute, inferior pulses, and a number of minor crops, the area developed increa…
Using historically informed archaeology: Seventeenth and eighteenth century Hueda/European interaction on the coast of Bénin
The archaeology of African-European interaction: Investigating the social roles of trade, traders, and the use of space in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuryHuedaKingdom, Republic of Bénin
Archaeological research has been underway at the site of the town of Savi, on the coast of Bénin, West Africa, since 1991. Savi grew to international fame in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as the capital of the Hueda (Whydah) Kingdom, and a port of great importance in the trans‐Atlantic slave trade. Traders of many European nations, including the Netherlands, England, France, and Portugal, maintained permanent trading establishments in …
Settlement Patterns and the Origins of African Jamaican Society: Seville Plantation, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica
Archaeological and historical research at Seville Plantation, Jamaica, are used to explain changes in settlement patterns within the estate's African Jamaican community between 1670 and the late nineteenth century. Sugar plantations, such as Seville, are marked by well-de.ned spatial order based upon economic and power relations that was imposed upon enslaved communities by planters andmanagers. Archaeological evidence is used to explore how ensl…
African Diaspora archaeology in Guadeloupe, French West Indies
Provides information on an investigation into the archaeology of the African diaspora in Guadeloupe, French West Indies. Use of historical cartographic data; History of French slavery at the site; Goals of the research
Making History in Banda: Anthropological Visions of Africa's Past
Ann B. Stahl. Making History in Banda: Anthropological Visions of Africa's Past. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xix + 268 pp. Photographs. Drawings. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Price not reported. Cloth. Ann B. Stahl has provided an important and long-awaited contribution to the growing list of monograph-length archaeological studies of later African history. An examination of this period is crucial to developing an increasing…
The African Diaspora Starts Here: Historical Archaeology of Coastal West Africa
Landscape Politics: The Serpent Ditch and the Rainbow in West Africa
Anthropologists and archaeologists have long been interested in the intersection of social, political, and religious institutions and landscape features. Recent efforts have been aimed at elucidating the tensions between the perception and description of such features among Western and non-Western groups. This article seeks to contribute to this project through an analysis of a series of massive ditches (c. 17th-19th centuries A.D.) in southern B…
Ancient Middle Niger: Urbanism and the Self-Organizing Landscape
Ancient Middle Niger: Urbanism and the Self-Organizing Landscape. Roderick J. McIntosh. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 261 pp
Sainte-Anne (Martinique). Habitation Crève-Cœur
La fouille dirigée par le Dr Kenneth G. Kelly (Université de Caroline du Sud, États-Unis) sur les vestiges de l’Habitation Crève-Cœur, une plantation des xviiie et xixe s., s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une enquête sur l’esclavage dans les plantations des Indes occidentales françaises. Cette recherche a pour objectif de cerner la manière dont l’influence de chaque colonie française se manifeste dans le développement des sociétés créoles à cette époqu…
Where is the Caribbean? French Colonial Archaeology in the English Lake
Creole Cultures of the Caribbean: Historical Archaeology in the French West Indies
Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora
Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora, edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran and Toyin Falola, Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 2007, 509pp., $59.95, ISBN 978-0-253
La vie quotidienne des habitations sucrières aux Antilles: L’archéologie à la découverte d’une histoire cachée
L’archéologie historique nous aide à cerner les conditions de survie des esclaves d’habitations sucrières aux Antilles françaises et de décrire les changements de pratiques et le détournement d’objets marquant la naissance de la culture créole. L’archéologie prête une voix aux « personnes sans histoire » en étudiant les traces concrètes de leurs vies quotidiennes : architecture, utilisation de l’espace, objets. Les vestiges concrets peuvent aussi…
Foodways of Enslaved Laborers on French West Indian Plantations (18th-19th century)
In the plantation settlements of the Americas, enslaved Africans and their descendants were compelled to create a system of foodways that provided sufficient nutrition for their survival and that could be assembled out of the resources available to them. The ability of the enslaved plantation workers to do this is a testament to their creativity, and the cuisine they developed lives on today in the creole foods of the former slave colonies. The f…
Rice and its consequences in the greater “Atlantic” world
Plantation slavery and rice agriculture in the Carolina Lowcountry drew upon captive Africans from a wide area of the African continent, but particular note has been made of the contributions of enslaved Africans originating in the Upper Guinea coast region who had sophisticated knowledge of indigenous rice agriculture. The “Black Rice Hypotheses” argues that their knowledge was crucial to the successful plantation regimes. Papers collected in th…
Employing archaeology to (dis)entangle the nineteenth-century illegal slave trade on the Rio Pongo, Guinea
Archaeological research conducted on the Rio Pongo, Guinea, has explored the setting of the nineteenth century “illegal” slave trade and its consequences for the European, American, and African traders engaged in that commerce. Excavated material, coupled with mapping of archaeological features, is employed to investigate the degree to which the trading entities and the local residents were entangled in the Atlantic World that spanned four contin…
Ethnic ambiguity and the African past: Materiality, History, and the Shaping of Cultural Identities
Sugar Plantations in the French West Indies: Archaeological Perspectives from Guadeloupe and Martinique
J. C. Harrington Medal in Historical Archaeology: Leland Greer Ferguson
The Slave Trade and Coastal West Africa
The Atlantic slave trade has been the focus of archaeological work in a number of West African countries. Much of the work has emphasized the impressive trade castles of the Ghana coast, where extensive European constructions demonstrate the importance of the slave trade in the regions’ history. Work has also been conducted on other settings, including in Bénin, where African agency manifested itself differently than on the Gold Coast of modern G…
Where strangers met: Evidence for early commerce at LaSoye Point, Dominica
History (23 works) · Geography (20 works) · Archaeology (19 works) · History (16 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Ethnology (12 works) · Anthropology (11 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (11 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (10 works)