Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology

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Ramón Dacal Moure obtained his degree in archaeology from the Department
of Anthropology of the Academia de Ciencias de Cuba in 1970. He
published a number of articles and books, including Método experimental para
el estudio de artefactos líticos de culturas antillanas no ceramistas (1968) and Artefactos
de concha en las comunidades aborígenes cubanas (1978). His book with
Manuel Rivero de la Calle titled Arqueología aborígen de Cuba (1986) was
translated and published in 1996 by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Shannon Lee Dawdy is assistant professor of anthropology and Social Sciences
at the College, University of Chicago. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology
and history from the University of Michigan (2003). Her interests lie
in the colonial and creole societies of the Caribbean and U.S. South. Her
publications include articles on the archaeology of creolization, Native Americans
in the colonial Southeast, and the development of early New Orleans and
Louisiana. She has also conducted ethnoarchaeological research on food and
farming at a postemancipation site in Cuba. She was the founding director of
the Greater New Orleans Archaeology Program (1995–1998).
Lourdes Domínguez has a Ph.D. in historic sciences with concentration in
archaeology. She is researcher at the Gabinete de Arqueología de la O¤cina
del Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana and adjunct professor at the Facultad
de Filosofía e Historia of the Universidad de La Habana and has taught
at the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe (San Juan,
Puerto Rico) and at the Universidad de Campinas–São Paulo (Brazil). She
specializes in the historical archaeology of Cuba and the Spanish Caribbean.
Her publications include Arqueología del centro-sur de Cuba, Arqueología colonial:
Dos estudios, and Los collares de la santería cubana. She has also contributed
extensively to Cuban and international publications.
Jorge Febles was awarded a Ph.D. from the Scienti¤c Council of the Institute
of History, Philology, and Philosophy of the Siberian Branch of the
Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1987, having ¤rst completed a
course of study in archaeology offered by the Cuban Academy of Sciences in
1974 and then a Licentiate in History from the University of Havana in 1978.
He has directed numerous projects in Cuba and published extensively abroad.
His signi¤cant publications include Manual para el estudio de la Piedra Tallada
de los aborigines de Cuba (1988), “Las comunidades aborígenes de Cuba,”
which he coauthored with Lourdes Domínguez and Alexis V. Rives in Historia