Kelly McGuire, M.A.
One of the original founders of Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc., Kelly has more than 35 years of archaeological experience, primarily in California and the Great Basin. Along with his duties as a Chief Financial Officer, he has supervised cultural resource programs for a variety of water resources, communication, resource management, transportation, military, and energy-related developments. Kelly’s research interests include California and Great Basin hunter-gatherer adaptations and foraging theory focusing on human behavioral ecology. His work has appeared in books and encyclopedias, as well as in American Antiquity; Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology; Quaternary Research; Journal of Ethnobiology; University of Utah Press; Museum of Anthropology, CSU-Bakersfield Occasional Papers in Anthropology; and Nevada State Museum Anthropological Papers. Kelly maintains an abiding interest in outreach efforts for archaeology; he has developed a number of pamphlets and web-based modules for educational institutions and the general public, as well co-produced a feature-length documentary The Obsidian Trail which was aired nation-wide on public television.