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Bennie Carleton Keel is an American archaeologist and government official. He grew up in Panama City, in Florida and graduated from Bay County High School in 1952. He completed one year of college before enlisting in the US Army (1954–1957) and serving as a military policeman with the 11th Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. After military service, he completed undergraduate studies in anthropology and sociology at Florida State University where he received B.S. (1960) and M.S. (1965) degrees. He undertook graduate studies in anthropology and quaternary studies at Washington State University in Pullman where he received a Ph.D. (1972).
Early in his career, Bennie Keel worked on several government-sponsored archaeological projects including the Weiss Reservoir in Alabama, the Town Creek Indian Mound in North Carolina, and the Marmes Rockshelter in Washington. He was the archaeologist at the Research Laboratories of Anthropology at the University...
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Davis, S. 2010. The contributions of Bennie Carlton Keel to the development of North Carolina archaeology. Southeastern Archaeology 29: 1–7.
Keel, B.C. 1976. Cherokee archaeology: a study of the Appalachian summit. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
- 1991. The future of protecting the past, in G.S. Smith & J. Ehrenhard (ed.) Protecting the past: 291–96. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
- 1999. A comprehensive subsurface investigation at Magnolia Plantation. Tallahassee: Southeast Archeological Center, National Park Service.
- 2007. The Ravensford Tract archeological project. Tallahassee: Southeast Archeological Center, National Park Service.
Keel, B.C. (ed.) 1988. Proceedings of a symposium: advances in southeastern archeology 1966–1986: contributions of the Federal Archeological Program (Special Publication 6). Southeastern Archaeological Conference.
Keel, B.C., J.E. Cornelison Jr. & D.M. Brewer. 1996. Regionwide archeological survey plan, southeast field area, National Park Service. Tallahassee: Southeast Archeological Center, National Park Service.
Keel, B.C., B.J. Little, M. Graham, M. Carroll & F.P. Mcmanamon. 2007. Peer review of federal archeological projects and programs (Technical Brief 21). Washington: Department of the Interior Departmental Consulting Archeologist, National Park Service Archeology Program.
Keel, B.C., F.P. Mcmanamon & G.S. Smith. 1989. Federal archeology: the current program. Annual report to congress on the Federal Archeology Program FY1985 and FY1986. Washington: United States Government Printing Office.
Further Reading
Loomis, O.H. 1983. Cultural conservation: the protection of cultural heritage in the United States. Washington: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
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Aubry, M.C. (2014). Keel, Bennie C.. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1229
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