Dissertation and Thesis
1985 Dynamic Horticulturalists: Population Expansion in the Prehistoric Bahamas. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.
1981 Artifacts in Archaeology: A Caribbean Case Study. M.A. thesis, Florida Atlantic University. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.
Books and Monographs
1997 Bahamian Archaeology: Life in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Before Columbus. Media Publishing, Nassau.
1992 The People Who Discovered Columbus: The Prehistory of the Bahamas. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
1991 Editor with Introduction: Earliest Hispanic/Native American Interactions in the Caribbean: A Sourcebook. The Spanish Borderlands Sourcebooks, David H. Thomas, General Editor. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York.
1987 Editor with Introduction: Emergent Horticultural Economies of the Eastern Woodlands. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Paper No. 7, SIU, Carbondale.
Articles in Journals
2000 William F. Keegan, West Indian Archaeology. 3. Ceramic Age. Journal of Archaeological Research, 8: 135-167.
1999 William F. Keegan, Comment on Paul Rainbird, ‘Islands Out of Time: Towards a Critique of Island Archaeology’, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 12: 252-254.
1996 Anne V. Stokes and William F. Keegan, A Reconnaissance for Prehistoric Archaeological Sites on Grand Cayman. Caribbean Journal of Science, 32: 425-430.
1996 West Indian Archaeology. 2.After Columbus. Journal of Archaeological Research 4: 265-294.
1995 Modeling Dispersal in the Prehistoric West Indies. World Archaeology, 26: 400-420.
1994 West Indian Archaeology. 1.Overview and Foragers. Journal of Archaeological Research 2: 255-284.
1992 Beachhead in the Bahamas, Landfall, Destruction of the Taino, Death Toll, and Riddles of Columbus. Archaeology, January/February 1992: 44-59.
1992 “Columbus Murdered a Continent”: Present, Past, and Future Consequences. Journal of the Bahamas Historical Society 14:2-8
1992 The Development and Extinction of Lucayan Society. Terrae Incognitae, 24:43-54.
1992 William F. Keegan, Morgan Maclachlan, and Brian Byrne, Los Cimientos Sociales de los Caciques Tainos. Eres 3:7-16. (Museo Arqueologico y Ethnografico, Islas Canarias).
1991 William F. Keegan and James E. Kelley, Jr., All the Ships in Christendom. Journal of the Bahamas Historical Society 13:31-33.
1990 Morgan D. Maclachlan and William F. Keegan, Archaeology and the Ethno-Tyrannies. American Anthropologist 92:1011-1013.
1989 Creating the Guanahatabey (Ciboney): The Modern Genesis of an Extinct Culture. Antiquity63:373-379.
1989 William F. Keegan and Morgan D. Maclachlan, The Evolution of Avunculocal Chiefdoms: A Reconstruction of Taino Kinship and Politics. American Anthropologist 91:613-630.
1989 The Columbus Chronicles. The Sciences, January/February, pp. 47-55.
1988 William F. Keegan and Michael J. DeNiro, Stable Carbon- and Nitrogen-Isotope Ratios of Bone Collagen Used to Study Coral-Reef and Terrestrial Components of Prehistoric Bahamian Diet.American Antiquity 53:320-336.
1988 New Directions in Bahamas Archaeology. Journal of the Bahamas Historical Society 10:3-8.
1987 William F. Keegan and Steven W. Mitchell, The Archaeology of Christopher Columbus’ Voyage Through the Bahamas, 1492. American Archaeology 6:102-108.
1987 Steven W. Mitchell and William F. Keegan, Reconstruction of the Coastlines of the Bahama Islands in 1492. American Archaeology 6:89-96.
1986 The Optimal Foraging Analysis of Horticultural Production. American Anthropologist 88:92-107.
1986 William F. Keegan and Steven W. Mitchell, Possible Allochthonous Lucayan Arawak Artifact Distributions, Bahama Islands. Journal of Field Archaeology 13:255-8.
1986 The Ecology of Lucayan Arawak Fishing Practices. American Antiquity 51:816-825.
1985 William Keegan, Allen Johnson, and Timothy Earle, Carrying Capacity and Population Regulation: A Comment on Dewar. American Anthropologist 87:659-663.
1984 Jared M. Diamond and William F. Keegan, Supertramps at Sea. Nature 311:704-705.
1984 Pattern and Process in Strombus gigas Tool Replication. Journal of New World Archaeology 6:15-25.
1984 Columbus and the City of Gold. Journal of the Bahamas Historical Society 6:34-39.
1982 Lucayan Cave Burials from the Bahamas. Journal of New World Archaeology 5:57-65.
1982 A Biological Introduction to the Prehistoric Procurement of the Strombus gigas. The Florida Anthropologist 35:76-88.
1982 Lucayan Fishing Practices: An Experimental Approach. The Florida Anthropologist 35:146-161.
Chapters in Anthologies
2000 History and Culture of Food and Drink in the Americas, Section V.D.2. The Caribbean, Including Northern South America and Eastern Central America: Early History, In The Cambridge World History of Food, edited by K. Kipple and K. C. Ornelas, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 1260-1277.
2000 Caribbean Area. In Handbook of Latin American Studies, edited by Dolores Moyano Martin, Vol. 57:43-51.
1998 William F. Keegan, Morgan Maclachlan, and Bryan Byrne, Social Foundations of Taino Caciques, In Chiefdoms and Chieftaincy: an Integration of Archaeological, Ethnohistorical, and Ethnographic Paradigms, edited by Elsa Redmond, pp. 217-244, University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
1997 No Man [or Woman] is an Island: Elements of Taino Social Organization. In The Indigenous People of the Caribbean, edited by S. Wilson, pp. 111-117, University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
1997 Caribbean Area. In Handbook of Latin American Studies, edited by Dolores Moyano Martin, Vol. 55:61-70.
1996 Columbus was a Cannibal: Myth and the First Encounters. In The Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion, edited by R. Paquette and S. Engerman, pp. 17-32. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
1996 Remote Sensing. In Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, edited by D. Levinson, Henry Holt, New York, pp. 1109-1111.
1996 Susan D. deFrance, William F. Keegan and Lee A. Newsom, The Archaeobotanical, Bone Isotope, and Zooarchaeological Records from Caribbean Sites in Comparative Perspective. In Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology, edited by E. J. Reitz, L. Newsom, and S. Scudder, Plenum, New York. pp. 289-304.
1993 Sherri L. Littman and William F. Keegan, A Shell Bead Manufacturing Center on Grand Turk, T.C.I. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, pp. 147-156, Barbados.
1992 Lucayan Settlement Patterns and Coastal Changes in the Bahamas. In Paleoshorelines and Prehistoric Settlement, edited by Lucy Lewis Johnson, pp. 5-14. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
1991 Culture Processes and Culture Realities. In Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies: Multiple Ways of Knowing the Past, edited by Robert W. Preucel, pp. 183-196. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Paper No. 10.
1991 An Anthropological Evaluation of Taino Kinship. In Proceedings of the 13th International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, edited by E.N. Ayubi and J.B. Haviser, pp. 437-445. AAINA, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles.
1991 Pacification, Conquest and Genocide. In The Columbus Encyclopedia, S. A. Bedini, Editor in Chief, pp. 532-535. Simon and Schuster, New York.
1989 Stable Isotope Analysis of Prehistoric Diet. In Reconstruction of Life from the Skeleton, edited by M.Y. Isçan and K.A.R. Kennedy, pp. 223-236. Alan R. Liss, New York.
1989 Columbus’ 1492 Voyage and the Search for his New World Landfall. In FIRST ENCOUNTERS: Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and the Eastern United States, 1492-1570, edited by J.T. Milanich and S. Milbrath, pp. 27-40, University Presses of Florida, Gainesville.
1989 Transition from a Terrestrial to a Maritime Economy: A New View of the Crab/Shell Dichotomy. InEarly Ceramic Population Lifeways and Adaptive Strategies in the Caribbean, edited by Peter Siegel, pp. 119-128. BAR International Series 506.
1987 William F. Keegan and Jared M. Diamond, Colonization of Islands by Humans: A Biogeographical Perspective. In Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, Vol.10, edited by M.B. Schiffer, pp. 49-92, Academic Press, Orlando.
1987 Diffusion of Maize from South America: The Antillean Connection Reconstructed. In Emergent Horticultural Economies of the Eastern Woodlands, edited by W. F. Keegan, Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper 7, pp. 329-344, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
1987 William F. Keegan and Brian M. Butler, The Microeconomic Logic of Horticultural Intensification in the Eastern Woodlands. In Emergent Horticultural Economies of the Eastern Woodlands, edited by W. F. Keegan, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Paper No. 7, pp. 109-127, SIU.
n.d. Early Caribbean Tradition. Encyclopedia of Prehistory, edited by Peter N. Peregrine and Melvin Ember, HRAF Press, New Haven, CT, in preparation.
Book and Movie Reviews
1999 Book Review. Los Aborígenes de la Cuenca de Santiago de Cuba, by Felipe Martínez Arango,Cuban Studies, in press.
1998 Book Review Forum on Island Colonization: The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonization of the Pacific, by Geoffrey Irwin, Pacific Studies 20: 136-143.
1998 Book Review. Art and Archaeology of pre-Columbian Cuba, by Ramón Dacal Moure & Manuel Rivero de la Calle. New West Indian Guide 72: 83-85.
1997 Book Review. Wolves from the Sea: Readings in the Anthropology of the Native Caribbean, edited by N.L. Whitehead. Ethnohistory 44:193-195.
1995 Book Review. Cannibal Encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492-1763, by Philip P. Boucher. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 3:559-560.
1994 Book Review. Wild Majesty: Encounters with Caribs from Columbus to the Present Day, An Anthology, by Peter Hulme and Neil L. Whitehead. Hispanic American Historical Review 74:328-329.
1994 Book Review. The Tainos, by Irving Rouse. American Anthropologist 96:1029-1030.
1994 Book Review Foraging and Farming in the Eastern Woodlands. C.M. Scarry, ed. The Florida Anthropologist 47:226-227.
1994 Book Review. Juan Ponce de Leòn, King Ferdinand and the Fountain of Youth, by
Anthony Q. Devereux. Florida Historical Quarterly, 72:231-231.
1994 Book Review. The First Immigrants From Asia: A Population History of the North American Indians, by A.J. Jaffe. Southeastern Archaeology, 13: 81-82.
1993 Book Review. Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People, by Michael Craton and Gail Saunders. Hispanic American Historical Review 73: 702-703.
1993 Book Review. Excavations at Maria de la Cruz Cave and Hacienda Grande Village Site, Loiza, Puerto Rico, by Irving Rouse and Ricardo E. Alegría. American Antiquity 58:777.
1993 Book Review. Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior, edited by E.A. Smith and B. Winterhalder. American Journal of Human Biology 5(3): 361-362.
1993 Book Review. The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific, by Geoffrey Irwin. Asian Perspectives 32:245-6
1992 Book Review. In Search of Columbus, by David Henige. Florida Historical Quarterly 70:90-91.
1992 Book Review. In Search of Columbus, by David Henige. VISTA, May 5, p. 18.
1992 Movie Review. Christopher Columbus: The Movie. Archaeology, Nov/Dec, p. 92.
1992 Book Review. Inujjuamiut Foraging Strategies, by Eric Alden Smith. American Journal of Human Biology 4(5):694-695.
1991 Book Review. Columbian Consequences: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands East, D.H. Thomas, ed. Gulf Coast Historical Review 6:84-86.
1991 Book Review. Columbus: Debunking of a Legend, by V. Sinovcic. VISTA, p. 7, October 6.
1991 Book Note. From Spaniard to Creole, by Charles R. Ewen. Florida Historical Quarterly 69:241.
1990 Book Review. Cave of the Jagua, by A.M. Stevens-Arroyo. Hispanic American Historical Review70:183.
1990 Book Review. Two Worlds: The Indian Encounter with the European 1492-1509, by S. Lyman Tyler. Florida Historical Quarterly 69:229-230.
1989 Book Review. Prehistoric Intensive Agriculture in the Tropics, I.S. Farrington, ed. American Antiquity 54:437-8.
1989 Book Review. The Log of Christopher Columbus, by R.H. Fuson; and The Diario of Christopher Columbus’s First Voyage to America, 1492-1493, by O. Dunn and J.E. Kelley, Jr., Florida Historical Quarterly 68:93-96.
Commentaries, Popular Publications, and Abstracts
1997 Bill Keegan and Betsy Carlson, Anatomy of a Colony: The Coralie Site, Grand Turk, Times of the Islands, Summer 1997, pp. 49-53.
1996 William Keegan with the assistance of Lisabeth Carlson and Corbett Torrance, Native Peoples of the West Indies, Times of the Islands, Summer 1996, pp. 38-45.
1995 William Keegan with the assistance of Lisabeth Carlson and Corbett Torrance, History Begins on Grand Turk, Times of the Islands, Summer 1995: 35-42.
1992 Columbus at His Word. VISTA (The Hispanic Magazine). National Sunday newspaper supplement, October 4, pp. 16, 24.
1992 W. F. Keegan, C. M. Porter, N. Silke, W. L. Stern, T. Hall, D. MacMahon, L. Newsom, A. Stokes, S. White, and C. Wilson, New World Harvest. Teacher’s manual to accompany expanded First Environmental Images exhibit, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville.
1991 Columbus: Hero or Heel? VISTA (The Hispanic Magazine). National Sunday Newspaper supplement, pp. 8-9, March 24.
1991 Rumbo a la Historia. VISTA (The Hispanic Magazine). National Sunday newspaper supplement, pp. 14, 16, July 7.
1991 One New World, Many Claimants. VISTA (The Hispanic Magazine). National Sunday newspapers supplement, p. 24, September 8.
1991 Landfall. VISTA (The Hispanic Magazine). National Sunday newspaper supplement, pp. 10, 22, October 6.
1991 Columbus, My Friend. VISTA (The Hispanic Magazine). National Sunday newspapers supplement, p. 8, November 3.
1990 W. F. Keegan, C. Porter, N. Silke, T. Hall, L. Newsom, and A. Stokes, New World Harvest. Teacher’s manual to accompany the First Environmental Images exhibit.
1988 The Optimal Foraging Analysis of Horticultural Production (American Anthropologist 88:92-107).Human Ethology Abstract IIX, Man-Environment Systems.
1987 Comment. Processual Archaeology and the Radical Critique by T.K. Earle and R.W. Preucel.Current Anthropology 28:518.
1983 Archaeology and the Role of the Archaeologist. In The Story of the Arawaks in Antigua and Barbuda, by Desmond Nicholson, Linden Press, London. Pp. 23-24.
1980 William F. Keegan and Sandra Dalton, The Story of the Arawak Indians in the Turks and Caicos Islands. PRIDE Foundation, Pine Cay.
Research Reports
1997 Preliminary results of the 1997 excavations at GT-3, Grand Turk. Report to Earthwatch, Watertown, MA.
1996 Preliminary results of the 1996 excavations at GT-3, Grand Turk. Report to Earthwatch, Watertown, MA.
1995 Preliminary results of the 1995 excavations on Grand Turk, Salt Cay, and Cotton Cay. Report to Earthwatch, Watertown, MA.
1994 Silly Creek Development: An Evaluation of Archaeological Impacts. Report to Silly Creek Development Company, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands.
1994 Water Cay Development: An Evaluation of Archaeological Impacts. Report to Water Cay Development Company, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands.
1993 Inagua Archaeology. Miscellaneous Project Report Number 50, Florida Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology.
1992 Preliminary Report on the Archaeological Investigation of the Proposed Aerostat Base, Great Inagua, Bahamas. Miscellaneous Project Report Number 50, Florida Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology.
1991 Archaeology at Pearls, Grenada. The 1990 Field Season. Miscellaneous Project Report Number 47, Florida Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology.
1991 The Governor’s Beach Site, Grand Turk: First Progress Report. Miscellaneous Project Report Number 48, Florida Museum of Natural History.
1990 William F. Keegan, Maurice Williams, and Grethe Seim, Archaeological Survey of Grand Turk, B.W.I. Miscellaneous Project Report Number 43, Florida Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology, Gainesville.
1990 William F. Keegan and Annie Cody, Progress Report on the Archaeological Excavation at the Site of Pearls, Grenada, August 1989. Miscellaneous Project Report Number 44, Florida Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology.
1988 Archaeological Investigations on Crooked and Acklins Islands, Bahamas: A Preliminary Report of the 1987 Field Season. Miscellaneous Project Reports Number 36, Florida Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology.
1988 William F. Keegan and Neil E. Sealey, A Preliminary Archaeological Survey of the Fehling Site (AN-1), Andros, Bahamas. Miscellaneous Project Report Number 40, Florida Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology.
1984 William F. Keegan and Steven W. Mitchell, The Archaeological Survey of Long Island, Bahamas: Final Report. PRIDE Foundation, Publications in Caribbean Science, No. 1.
1984 William F. Keegan and Steven W. Mitchell, Archaeological Investigations on Great and Little Exuma, Bahamas. PRIDE Foundation, Publications in Caribbean Science, No. 2.
1983 An Archaeological Reconnaissance of Crooked Island and Acklins Island, Bahamas. Department of Archives, Nassau.
1983 Archaeological Investigations on Mayaguana, Bahamas: A Preliminary Report. Department of Archives, Nassau.
1983 William F. Keegan and Steven W. Mitchell, An Archaeological Reconnaissance of Long Island, Bahamas. Department of Archives, Nassau.
World Wide Web Publications
The Caribbean Archaeology web page (http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/anthro/caribarch) was completely remodeled in the Fall of 1997. That year the Caribbean Archaeology web page was awarded a 4 Star Award of Excellence for Anthropology web pages. The following new sections were added:
1998: Field Research: Jamaica, Field Research: Grenada, Field Research: Grand Cayman, and Field Research: Indian Head Cave, Middle Caicos; Join us on Middle Caicos.
Keegan, William F., Anne V. Stokes, Lee Ann Newsom and Geoffrey Senior, Bullen bibliography of Caribbean Archaeology, 2nd edition, WWW home page, FLMNH, Gainesville,1998.
1997: Zombi; Turks and Caicos Earthwatch Report, 1997; Haiti Earthwatch Report, 1997.
Papers Read and Sessions Chaired at Professional Meetings
1998 William Keegan and Morgan Maclachlan, Institutional Foundations of the Taino Chiefdoms, 97th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, November 30-December 3.
1997 Anatomy of a Colony: The Coralie Site, Grand Turk, Southern Bahamas. 62nd annual meeting of the Society for American, Nashville.
1996 Fryxell Symposium: Susan deFrance, William Keegan and Lee Newsom, The Archaeobotanical, Bone Isotope, and Zooarchaeological Records from Caribbean Sites in Comparative Perspective. 60th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.
1995 Recent Sea Level Fluctuations and Population Movements in the West Indies. 16th International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, Guadeloupe.
1994 Organizer and Chair, Fryxell Symposium: Bone Chemistry and Human Diet — Recent Advances, Recent Retreats. 58th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim.
1994 Universals and Refutationist Logic in the West Indian Laboratory. 58th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim, April 20-24.
1994 Anne V. Stokes and William F. Keegan, Stable Isotopes Versus Environmental Archaeology in Reconstructing West Indian Diets. 58th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim, April 20-24.
1994 Discussant, From Paleoenvironments to Political Complexity: Advances in the Chemical Study and Interpretation of Anthropological Remains, 93rd annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, November 30-December 3.
1993 Archaic and Saladoid Diets in the West Indies: Too Little Land and Too Much Sea. 57th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, April 14-18.
1992 Columbus was a Cannibal: Myths and the First Encounters. The Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, October 9-11.
1991 W. F. Keegan, M.D. Maclachlan, and B. Byrne, Social Foundations of Taino Chiefs. International Congress of Americanists, New Orleans, July 7-11.
1991 Sherri L. Littman and William F. Keegan, A Shell Bead Manufacturing Center on Grand Turk, T.C.I. Fourteenth Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, Barbados, July 21-27.
1990 Symposium Organizer and Chair: Interaction Spheres in the Caribbean. 55th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Las Vegas, April 18-22. 1990 Interaction and the Development of Social Complexity. 55th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Las Vegas, April 18-22.
1990 Caribbean Chiefdoms in the Late Fifteenth Century: 1: Bahamas to Cuba. Paper presented at the conference Non-Imperial Polities in the Lands Visited by Christopher Columbus During His Four Voyages to the New World, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, August 26-Sept. 2.
1990 “Columbus Murdered a Continent” Present, Past, and Future Consequences, A View From the Caribbean. Invited Program Session: Native Societies and the Impact of Spanish Empire, 1492-1600: Archaeological Perspectives on the Caribbean and the United States. 89th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 28 – December 2.
1989 Lucayan Settlement Patterns and Recent Coastal Changes in the Bahamas. 54th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, April 5-9.
1989 Culture Processes and Culture Realities. New Directions in Archaeology: The Processual/Post-Processual Debate. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, April.
1989 An Anthropological Evaluation of Taino Kinship. Thirteenth International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, July 24-29.
1989 Description of How the Lucayans Lived, Ate, Married and Made Their Settlements, and Debate on the Two Most Probable Landfall Theories. Presented at the Grand Turk Columbus Landfall Symposium, Grand Turk, December 9-14.
1988 Transition from a Terrestrial to a Maritime Economy: The Isotopic Record. 53rd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Phoenix, April 28-May 1.
1987 Steven W. Mitchell and William F. Keegan, Provenance of Spanish Olive Jars, Bahama Islands. The Society for Historical Archaeology, Programs and Abstracts 1987:76.
1987 Evolutionary Ethnobiology: Behavioral Models of Foraging Efficiency and their Prehistoric Caribbean Correlates. 10th annual conference of Ethnobiology, Gainesville, March 5-8.
1987 Discussant: Post-Processual Studies in Pacific Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory. 52nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Toronto, May 6-10.
1987 Chair, General Session: Caribbean Archaeology, 52nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Toronto, May.
1987 Structural Determinants of Lucayan Arawak Settlement Patterns. 52nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Toronto, May 6-10.
1986 Steven W. Mitchell and William F. Keegan, New Geomorphic and Archaeological Evidence for the Route of Columbus’ Voyage through the Bahamas, 1492. The Society for Historical Archaeology, Program and Abstracts 1986:77-78.
1986 Conference Organizer: Emergent Horticultural Economies of the Eastern Woodlands. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, March 28-29.
1986 Symposium Organizer and Chair: Processual Studies in Island Archaeology. 51st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, April 16-19.
1986 Reproduction and Production During Arawak Expansion in the Bahamas. 51st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, April 16-19.
1986 The Use of Stable Isotopes to Reconstruct Diet and Nutrition: Potentials and Problems. 85th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia.
1985 Archaeological Evidence for Determining Christopher Columbus’s Voyage Through the Bahamas, 1492. The Society for Historical Archaeology, Program and Abstracts 1985:78-79.
1984 Steven W. Mitchell and William F. Keegan, Archaeological Significance of Late Holocene Coastline Evolution, Bahama Islands. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs16(6):598.
1982 Subsistence and Settlement in the Prehistoric Bahamas. Third Bahamas Conference on Archaeology, San Salvador, March.
1981 Strombus gigas Shell Tools from Florida and the Caribbean. Florida Scientist 44 (Supplement 1):7.