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Kara Kelly
Kara Kelly
Collection Manager
Archaeology
kara_kelly@ku.edu
Spooner Hall
Sandra Olsen
Affiliate Researcher, Retired Curator
Archaeology
sandra.olsen@ku.edu
785.864.6511
Mary Adair
Mary Adair
Curator Emerita
Archaeology
madair@ku.edu
785.864.2675
Spooner Hall

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Archaeology at a Glance

(past cultures)

Established: 1895

Collection Strengths: 1.5 million artifacts

Research Strengths: Material culture studies of prehistoric and early historic peoples of the Great Plains, lithic and ceramic analysis, geoarchaeology, paleoethnobotany, zooarchaeology and rock art.

Collections Manager: Kara Kelly
kara_kelly@ku.edu
Curator Emerita: Mary Adair
785.864.2675

Biodiversity Institute Research Divisions

  • Archaeology
  • ​Biodiversity Modeling
  • Botany
  • Entomology
  • Herpetology
  • Ichthyology
  • Informatics
  • Invertebrate Paleontology
  • Invertebrate Zoology
  • Mammalogy
  • Ornithology
  • Paleobotany
  • Vertebrate Paleontology

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