Dave was born in Albany, New York, on April 1, 1924. His father was Irish Catholic, and his mother a New York Yankee descended from Amos Humiston, the famous 'unknown soldier' of the Battle of Gettysburg. (Amos Humiston died clutching in his hand a photograph of his three young children, and newspapers began a search for the children's mother, who was finally found in upstate New York. The oldest of the children, Frank, was Dave's grandfather [Morris 2009].)

By age fifteen or so Dave had become interested in archaeology, stimulated by the book Digging in Yucatan (Morris 1931), a copy of which was given to him by his Aunt Alice. As Michael Coe later recounted:

Two of the plates in the book fascinated him: one, near the beginning, showed a tremendous mound of dirt at Chichén Itzá, with people standing on it, while in the second one, near the end, that same mound had turned into the resplendent Temple of the Thousand Columns. As Dave puts it, "I thought, hey, that's something I'd like to be doing." (Coe 1992:157)

Temple of the Warriors, Chichen Itza, before and after excavation and consolidation (Morris 1931:Figs. 1, 40).

Some time later, Dave wrote to Alfred Tozzer, the Bowditch Professor of American Archaeology at Harvard University, and after several years in the army (in the United States Army Air Force, most of his service spent in Kettering, England) Dave entered Harvard on the GI Bill to study Anthropology. His Senior Honors thesis (Kelley 1950) set the scene for how he conducted his later research, comprising a detailed and comprehensive study of documentary sources for the study of what now would be called the ethnohistory of Central Mexico.

Dave continued at Harvard as a graduate student, and was proud to call himself Alfred Tozzer's last graduate student. His dissertation (Kelley 1957) was on a subject that I suspect might have initially somewhat alarmed the rather formal Tozzer. It was subtitled "Evidence for a Mexican Element in the Formation of Polynesian Culture." However, Tozzer I am sure by this time had recognized in Dave the kind of scholar with whom he would have shared an affinity: a careful researcher who made sure that he was immersed in the literature and arguments of a particular subject before he published about it. The difference, perhaps, between Dave Kelley and Alfred Tozzer was that Dave had a highly varied and eclectic repertoire: by the time his dissertation was completed he had already published articles on European genealogy (Kelley 1947), Mexican ethnohistory (Kelley 1953), astronomy (Kelley 1954), and Mexican and North American mythology and linguistics (Kelley 1955). All of these subjects would remain major themes of interest to Dave for the rest of his life.

After receiving his PhD from Harvard, Dave held a teaching position at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. By this time he had married Jane Holden, an archaeologist he had met while at Harvard, and they were starting their family, which eventually grew to four children. Also at this time Dave was awarded two Fullbright scholarships, to undertake fieldwork and teaching in Peru (1957-1958) and Uruguay (1963), respectively. In 1964 the Kelleys moved to the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, and later still (in 1968) to the University of Calgary in Canada, where both Dave and Jane became professors in the Department of Archaeology—one of whose founders was Richard "Scotty" MacNeish, with whom Dave had conducted fieldwork in Tamaulipas, Mexico, in the 1950s.

Around this time, Dave published several key articles on various aspects of Maya hieroglyphic writing. "Glyphic Evidence for a Dynastic Sequence at Quirigua, Guatemala" was published in 1962, in the flagship journal American Antiquity (Kelley 1962a). With this article Dave provided the first published support for Tatiana Proskouriakoff's brilliant argument that the content of the Classic period monumental inscriptions of the Maya is predominantly historical in nature. Proskouriakoff's landmark paper had been published in American Antiquity two years earlier, and while it received universal scholarly acceptance as soon as it was published, Dave Kelley's article on Quirigua was the first application of Proskouriakoff's method to the inscriptional corpus of another site. "Fonetismo en la escritura maya" (Kelley 1962b) was published in the prestigious Mexican serial Estudios de Cultura Maya. This article represents the first major statement outside the Soviet Union in support of Yuri Knorozov's decipherment of "phonetic," or syllabic, signs in Maya writing. Dave had met Knorozov at a conference in Copenhagen in 1956 (Lebrun 2005:4-5), and had become convinced of the correctness of his approach (e.g., Knorozov 1958). This was significant, as the greatest Mayanist scholar of the time, J. Eric S. Thompson, was implacably opposed to Knorozov's proposal and had written several stinging rebuttals of Knorozov's arguments (e.g., Thompson 1953). However Thompson's rebuttals focused on some incorrect decipherments of individual glyphs by Knorozov, as a way of condemning his entire work; Dave Kelley focused on Knorozov's methodology, which he argued in his 1962 article was sound, despite some errors of application. Also published in 1962 was "A History of the Decipherment of Maya Script" (Kelley 1962c), which provided a balanced and up-to-date summary of the previous history of the field of Maya hieroglyphic studies. These articles represent the beginning of a much larger work that Dave was preparing: a book that was, after some delays, published by the University of Texas Press (Kelley 1976). This work was an encyclopedic treatise on what was known about Maya writing up to the early 1970s, and it was by far the best statement made about the various aspects of Maya writing and its decipherment up to that time.

While Dave was building his reputation as a hieroglyphic expert, he continued actively to pursue his other research interests. Through the 1960s and 1970s he published on linguistics, mythology, trans-oceanic diffusion, genealogy, early writing, calendar systems, and astronomy, even while he continued to make important contributions to Maya hieroglyphic decipherment.

Another of Dave's major interests was the problem of the correlation between the Maya and European calendars. Dave was always convinced that the correlation almost universally used today (originally proposed by Thompson in 1935), is wrong, and he spent much of his career looking for the correct solution. Over the years he proposed at least four correlations of his own, and by the 1990s he had become convinced that the correct correlation was one proposed by Andreas Fuhls and Bryan Wells (which places dates 208 years after those in Thompson's correlation).

Since his Harvard years Dave had been interested in diffusion and trans-oceanic contact. This is a subject which has attracted a lot of research that is, let us say, of variable quality, and which could potentially damage academic reputations. Dave would not have been worried by the danger (indeed, he would have relished it). The point is that he brought his rigorous and thorough scholarly research methods to the subject, and when Dave pronounced on this subject (or any other) one ignored him at one's peril. It also led to great titles for articles, such as "Knife-Wing and Other Man-Eating Birds" (Kelley 1964b), an article which brought together linguistic and mythological data from the American Southwest, Polynesia, and Mesoamerica. One of Dave's proudest moments was when one of his Ph.D. students, Joe D. Stewart, received the Canadian Governor-General's award for the best anthropological dissertation of the year. Joe's thesis was a study of the relationship between Asian and Mesoamerican calendar systems, a subject dear to Dave's heart and to which he himself contributed (Moran and Kelley 1969).

Genealogical studies formed another of Dave's major interests (I am not sure, but perhaps spawned by his family background involving Amos Humiston). Early in his career he made detailed research into the dynasties of medieval Europe (his first published article, while still an undergraduate at Harvard, involved the family of Charlemagne [Kelley 1947]). In recognition of his many accomplishments in genealogical studies, Dave was elected as Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists in 1970. Dave loved doing genealogical research, and was never happier than when discovering yet another family link in ancient Mixtec dynasties, or among European royal families, or in his beloved Ireland. Sadly, much of his superb work into the genealogies of the Toltecs and other Postclassic Mesoamerican dynasties remains unpublished, although some details have been published in several important articles (Kelley 1984, 1987, 1992a).

Yet another area in which Dave was an expert was astronomy. He used his astronomical research in combination with his knowledge on calendar systems to work on the Maya correlation problem, and he wrote several important publications on astronomy over his career. These culminated in 2005 (when Dave was over 80) with a prodigious volume, Exploring Ancient Skies, which he wrote with his colleague and close friend Eugene F. Milone. This book went to its second edition just earlier this year. As Stanley Guenter notes:

I had the privilege to take one of Dave's last classes, a seminar on archaeoastronomy co-taught with Dr. Milone at the very time the two were writing their book. While writing my research paper for the class on the subject of the Venus Tables of the Dresden Codex I took advantage of Dave's remarkable generosity with his time, and while our discussions might begin on the calendar or astronomy they usually ranged far afield, and often came back to the relationships of Toltec princes to the other royal lines of Mesoamerica, an interest that Dave certainly inspired in me. Since I disagreed with Dave on the correlation issue I would occasionally have the audacity to put forth some evidence that I, in my naïveté, thought to be a trump. Without fail that famous grin would come across Dave's face, and with a twinkle in his eye, he would present the perfect (and quite often most arcane) counter-evidence to thoroughly refute my point. I can honestly say that I have never met a more erudite and knowledgeable person than Dave Kelley, but this was something that Dave demonstrated, without boasting. One was in awe of Dave and his prodigious memory and insightful mind, but not intimidated by him, and while I learned a lot of humility in my discussions with him, I take pride in having been his student. (Stanley Guenter, personal communication 2011)

Later in his career Dave published a number of insightful and incisive reviews in the journal Quarterly Review of Archaeology (later simply the Review of Archaeology). These generally involved several books or articles dealt with thematically, on such diverse topics as: Maya archaeology, ceramics, and epigraphy; Mesoamerican archaeology, linguistics, and ethnohistory; and script diffusion. These reviews were an excellent opportunity for Dave to exercise his wide-ranging and eclectic knowledge. I have never read such perceptive reviews as those written by Dave Kelley.

Dave was legendary as a teacher. He taught a huge number of clases and over a wide range of subjects, some of which would probably be considered, sadly, too esoteric to be taught in most universities today. Dave's classes were always an adventure. I remember in undergraduate classes frenetically trying to take notes on a topic that started out, say, as the archaeology of Chichen Itza, but which quickly moved to the Aztec calendar to Polynesian terms for the sweet potato to Jewish princes in Europe—and leaving us in the class wondering how Dave had got there so seamlessly, and how on earth we were going to be able to remember all this for the exam. He would ask exam questions such as "Make up a question and answer it. You will be marked on both your question and your answer," which if you think about it is not nearly as easy as it seems. Another question I remember Dave posing is a puzzle that combines his interests in mythology, calendar, and cross-cultural comparisons. The question is this: "Name two gods both with a serpent foot and both born in the year 753."

At Calgary the home of Dave and Jane became the spiritual center of the Department of Archaeology. They always made their home welcome to students and visitors, and their Thanksgiving dinners were legendary. (I believe that 150 people came to at least one of them; quite simply I do not know how Jane managed to host them so wonderfully.)

If I may, I'd like to relate how I met Dave, for I believe it illustrates the warmth and generosity of spirit of both Dave and Jane. One of my major regrets in my career is that I didn't meet them a year earlier. I was an undergraduate at the University of Calgary, and nearing the end of my first year, but had only seen Dave and Jane in the Department corridor and had never summoned up the courage to talk with either of them: in my native Australia at the time professors were so lofty that it would have been quite presumptuous for a lowly undergraduate to engage with them in any personal way. Nevertheless, I had become close to one professor at Calgary, Scott Raymond, who had been very supportive and friendly to me during my first year, and who kept saying to me "if you're interested in Mesoamerica, you really must speak with Dave Kelley." Towards the end of my first year, I believed I'd worked out an excuse for approaching Dave, so I gingerly knocked on his office door, and mumbled to him something like "I think I'm interested in Mesoamerica." His response absolutely floored me: "Well, you'd better come back home for supper tonight." I really had no idea how to interpret this unexpected response. Apart form anything else, what was Jane going to say to an additional mouth to feed at no notice? I think that night was the most stimulating of my life. Jane and Dave and their family made me most welcome, and Dave and I talked long into the night, until at about three in the morning he drove me back to my apartment. Over the next three years I spent many evenings (and early mornings) at Dave and Jane's, while Dave patiently gave me one-on-one lessons on the Maya and Mesoamerica, and particularly on Maya hieroglyphic writing, with a bit of linguistics, astronomy, genealogy, correlations, and trans-Pacific contacts thrown in for good measure. In the process, Jane and Dave became second parents to me.

This generosity on the part of the Kelleys—open to all students who passed through Calgary—is echoed by a later student, who went from Mexico to Calgary to complete his PhD, Armando Anaya:

I first met Dave shortly after my family and I arrived in Calgary. At the time we were overwhelmed by a completely different geographic and cultural setting and were not sure that we would adapt easily. Dave immediately struck me as a laid-back good-natured fellow, not the erudite stereotype that I had imagined, having read about his ground-breaking contributions in the field of Maya studies. His bright smile and cheerful disposition always brought a joyous note to any gathering that we had, spending the nights singing Mexican and Irish folk songs. I guess it was in part his Irish glee that attracted me so much to Dave: for historic reasons Mexicans will always be in debt to the Irish. Dave was a very wise man, and not only because of the plethora of topics that he mastered, but because he had the gift to convey that knowledge and inspire his students to search beyond the limits sometimes imposed by mainstream academia. In that sense Dave was always a maverick, his views often leading him to abandon the comfort of consensual agreements on critical issues such as the Maya calendar correlation, or the diffusion of cultural traits, and he was never dismayed or bitter by counter-arguments (or lack of same) downplaying his work. Dave was a down-to earth intellectual, the kind of intellectual that we need to reach out and demystify knowledge. He led a simple uncomplicated life always in touch with those who sought to learn something from him, and always willing to share a song. (Armando Anaya, personal communication 2011)

I have taken it as a huge complement when on occasion students have compared me with Dave. The context is of course not my brain, but rather my filing system, which I must admit at times looks like Dave's. The term "organized chaos" comes to mind. Dave's university office and his study at home would usually have relatively little floor space visible: both places had mini-skyscrapers of papers and books stacked in teetering piles around the floor and between bookcases and the occasional chair. Maneuvering between the piles without precipitating some dreadful sort of domino effect was an adventure in travel. Dave was always wonderfully generous in sharing his books and papers and offprints, and if one asked him if he had a copy of such-and-such, he would rub his bald forehead and gesture to a couple of piles on the floor and say, "Yes, I think it's in this pile, or that pile—or it's in New Hampshire." In my experience he was invariably right—it was in the first pile. I remember his anguish when one summer in his absence some well-meaning souls "tidied up" his office—it took months for him to get his "system" back in order!

Dave was a gentle, considerate man who was always willing to help students, friends, colleagues, and even total strangers if they were in need. And he was always ready for a discussion on anything—from current affairs to academic topics, but never such a dry discussion that he couldn't at the drop of a hat burst into singing an Irish revolutionary song (or Mexican revolutionary song, for that matter). He was, quite simply, one of a kind, and I think I can truly speak for all his friends when I say that the world will not see his like again.

Dave was appointed an Emeritus Professor at the University of Calgary after his "retirement." In 1999 he was the first recipient of the Tatiana Proskouriakoff Award from his beloved Harvard University for his contributions to Mayan decipherment.

Dave Kelley leaves his wife Jane and his children Becky, Megan, and Dennis (his oldest son Michael predeceased him), as well as four grandchildren, and a host of friends, colleagues, and former students.


The David Humiston Kelley Scholarship

The Department of Archaeology at the University of Calgary is in the process of establishing a David Humiston Kelley Scholarship in memory of Dave. If friends so desire, memorial tributes may be sent to:

David Kelley Scholarship
c/o Department of Archaeology
The University of Calgary
2500 University Dr. N.W.
Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4
Canada

Condolences may be forwarded through www.hffs.com.


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