John Charles Kelley died at the age of 84 on December 13, 1997, following a short illness. Kelley was born in Era, Texas. He graduated from Balmorhea High School in 1931, enrolled at Sul Ross State Teachers College, and later received his B.A. in anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 1937. He completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1948....
From 1944 to 1945 Kelley conducted anthropometric research for the design of gas masks as a research associate for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was assigned to the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service. He enlisted in the army in 1945 and was honorably discharged at the end of World War II.
Kelley became the curator of the Archaeology Museum at the University of Texas-Austin in 1949. He continued work on the Río Grande, but also initiated research in northwest Mexico--a survey of the Río Conchos in Chihuahua. In 1950, Kelley began a 26-year tenure at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (SIU) as director of the University Museum and a founding father of the anthropology department. During his early years at SIU, he conducted archaeological research in southern Illinois. However, Kelley's main research focus continued to be northwest Mexican archaeology, especially the Chalchihuites culture--an interest that would persist for the rest of his life....
Kelley helped organize the Mesoamerican Cooperative Research Program at SIU in 1960, overseeing surveys in Durango, Zacatecas, and northern Jalisco. Simultaneously he organized a far-ranging project to study the northwest frontier from the Bajío through Zacatecas, northern Jalisco, to Durango, with collaborators Román Piña Chán, Howard Winters, Walter Taylor, Pedro Armillas, and Beatrice Braniff. Also at this time, Ellen Abbott Kelley, his wife, right arm, field assistant, laboratory director, and ceramicist, began 30 years of research on the Chalchihuites culture....
Kelley retired from SIU in 1976 and returned to Texas. He and Ellen became adjunct faculty at Sul Ross State University. At their home in Fort Davis, the Kelleys built a library to continue their Mexican research. In 1986 when he was 73, J. Charles and Ellen organized Blue Mountain Consultants and undertook numerous small survey and excavation projects in west Texas. They codirected excavations at Alta Vista in 1991-1993 at the invitation of archaeologists from the Centro Regional de Zacatecas and the Mexican state of Zacatecas. In 1994 Kelley retired from fieldwork although he continued to write and assist other investigators....
Source: http://www.saa.org/Portals/0/SAA/publications/SAAbulletin/16-2/SAA8.html
From 1944 to 1945 Kelley conducted anthropometric research for the design of gas masks as a research associate for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was assigned to the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service. He enlisted in the army in 1945 and was honorably discharged at the end of World War II.
Kelley became the curator of the Archaeology Museum at the University of Texas-Austin in 1949. He continued work on the Río Grande, but also initiated research in northwest Mexico--a survey of the Río Conchos in Chihuahua. In 1950, Kelley began a 26-year tenure at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (SIU) as director of the University Museum and a founding father of the anthropology department. During his early years at SIU, he conducted archaeological research in southern Illinois. However, Kelley's main research focus continued to be northwest Mexican archaeology, especially the Chalchihuites culture--an interest that would persist for the rest of his life....
Kelley helped organize the Mesoamerican Cooperative Research Program at SIU in 1960, overseeing surveys in Durango, Zacatecas, and northern Jalisco. Simultaneously he organized a far-ranging project to study the northwest frontier from the Bajío through Zacatecas, northern Jalisco, to Durango, with collaborators Román Piña Chán, Howard Winters, Walter Taylor, Pedro Armillas, and Beatrice Braniff. Also at this time, Ellen Abbott Kelley, his wife, right arm, field assistant, laboratory director, and ceramicist, began 30 years of research on the Chalchihuites culture....
Kelley retired from SIU in 1976 and returned to Texas. He and Ellen became adjunct faculty at Sul Ross State University. At their home in Fort Davis, the Kelleys built a library to continue their Mexican research. In 1986 when he was 73, J. Charles and Ellen organized Blue Mountain Consultants and undertook numerous small survey and excavation projects in west Texas. They codirected excavations at Alta Vista in 1991-1993 at the invitation of archaeologists from the Centro Regional de Zacatecas and the Mexican state of Zacatecas. In 1994 Kelley retired from fieldwork although he continued to write and assist other investigators....
Source: http://www.saa.org/Portals/0/SAA/publications/SAAbulletin/16-2/SAA8.html
John Charles Kelley died at the age of 84 on December 13, 1997, following a short illness. Kelley was born in Era, Texas. He graduated from Balmorhea High School in 1931, enrolled at Sul Ross State Teachers College, and later received his B.A. in anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 1937. He completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1948....
From 1944 to 1945 Kelley conducted anthropometric research for the design of gas masks as a research associate for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was assigned to the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service. He enlisted in the army in 1945 and was honorably discharged at the end of World War II.
Kelley became the curator of the Archaeology Museum at the University of Texas-Austin in 1949. He continued work on the Río Grande, but also initiated research in northwest Mexico--a survey of the Río Conchos in Chihuahua. In 1950, Kelley began a 26-year tenure at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (SIU) as director of the University Museum and a founding father of the anthropology department. During his early years at SIU, he conducted archaeological research in southern Illinois. However, Kelley's main research focus continued to be northwest Mexican archaeology, especially the Chalchihuites culture--an interest that would persist for the rest of his life....
Kelley helped organize the Mesoamerican Cooperative Research Program at SIU in 1960, overseeing surveys in Durango, Zacatecas, and northern Jalisco. Simultaneously he organized a far-ranging project to study the northwest frontier from the Bajío through Zacatecas, northern Jalisco, to Durango, with collaborators Román Piña Chán, Howard Winters, Walter Taylor, Pedro Armillas, and Beatrice Braniff. Also at this time, Ellen Abbott Kelley, his wife, right arm, field assistant, laboratory director, and ceramicist, began 30 years of research on the Chalchihuites culture....
Kelley retired from SIU in 1976 and returned to Texas. He and Ellen became adjunct faculty at Sul Ross State University. At their home in Fort Davis, the Kelleys built a library to continue their Mexican research. In 1986 when he was 73, J. Charles and Ellen organized Blue Mountain Consultants and undertook numerous small survey and excavation projects in west Texas. They codirected excavations at Alta Vista in 1991-1993 at the invitation of archaeologists from the Centro Regional de Zacatecas and the Mexican state of Zacatecas. In 1994 Kelley retired from fieldwork although he continued to write and assist other investigators....
Source: http://www.saa.org/Portals/0/SAA/publications/SAAbulletin/16-2/SAA8.html
From 1944 to 1945 Kelley conducted anthropometric research for the design of gas masks as a research associate for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was assigned to the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service. He enlisted in the army in 1945 and was honorably discharged at the end of World War II.
Kelley became the curator of the Archaeology Museum at the University of Texas-Austin in 1949. He continued work on the Río Grande, but also initiated research in northwest Mexico--a survey of the Río Conchos in Chihuahua. In 1950, Kelley began a 26-year tenure at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (SIU) as director of the University Museum and a founding father of the anthropology department. During his early years at SIU, he conducted archaeological research in southern Illinois. However, Kelley's main research focus continued to be northwest Mexican archaeology, especially the Chalchihuites culture--an interest that would persist for the rest of his life....
Kelley helped organize the Mesoamerican Cooperative Research Program at SIU in 1960, overseeing surveys in Durango, Zacatecas, and northern Jalisco. Simultaneously he organized a far-ranging project to study the northwest frontier from the Bajío through Zacatecas, northern Jalisco, to Durango, with collaborators Román Piña Chán, Howard Winters, Walter Taylor, Pedro Armillas, and Beatrice Braniff. Also at this time, Ellen Abbott Kelley, his wife, right arm, field assistant, laboratory director, and ceramicist, began 30 years of research on the Chalchihuites culture....
Kelley retired from SIU in 1976 and returned to Texas. He and Ellen became adjunct faculty at Sul Ross State University. At their home in Fort Davis, the Kelleys built a library to continue their Mexican research. In 1986 when he was 73, J. Charles and Ellen organized Blue Mountain Consultants and undertook numerous small survey and excavation projects in west Texas. They codirected excavations at Alta Vista in 1991-1993 at the invitation of archaeologists from the Centro Regional de Zacatecas and the Mexican state of Zacatecas. In 1994 Kelley retired from fieldwork although he continued to write and assist other investigators....
Source: http://www.saa.org/Portals/0/SAA/publications/SAAbulletin/16-2/SAA8.html
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