Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology

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de Cuba: La colonia, evolución socioeconómica y formación nacional; De los orígenes
hasta 1867 (1994), Arqueología de Cuba y de otras áreas antillanas (coedited
with Alexis V. Rives) (1991), and the CD-ROM Taíno, archaeología de Cuba.
He is a recent recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.
Perry L. Gnivecki, assistant professor of anthropology, Miami University,
Oxford, Ohio, received his Ph.D. in anthropology and a certi¤cate in Southwest
Asian and North African Studies from the State University of New York
at Binghamton in 1983. He is codirector of the Lucayan Ecological Archaeology
Project and director of the Pigeon Creek Site excavations. His archaeological
research interests include the emergence of chiefdoms, comparative
urbanism and state formation, material culture studies, island ecology, and spatial
organization. His research on the Bahamas has been published in World Archaeology
and Proceedings of the International Association of Caribbean Archaeology.
Pedro Godo is the chair of the Department of Archaeology of the Centro
de Antropología, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba. He obtained his doctorate
in history in 1995 from the Universidad de la Habana. He has participated in
a number of ¤eld research projects on precolumbian sites, especially those of
foraging groups. He has published multiple articles on the early ceramic
groups of Cuba and recently has been publishing on precolumbian art and
religion, especially regarding the symbolism of designs on late precolumbian
ceramics. As chair of the Department of Archaeology, he has dedicated himself
to the protection of the archaeological heritage of Cuba.
Gabino La Rosa Corzo is a researcher in the Department of Archaeology
of the Centro de Antropología, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba. He obtained
his licenciate in history from Universidad de La Habana in 1968 and a doctoral
degree in historical sciences with specialization in archaeology in 1994.
He has conducted a number of research projects on both precolumbian and
historic sites and has published a number of books, including Los cimarrones
de Cuba (1989), Costumbre funerarias de los aborígenes de Cuba (1995), Arqueología
en sitios de contrabandistas (1995), and Los palenques del oriente de
Cuba: Resistencia y acoso (1991). This last book was translated into English and
published in 2003 by the University of North Carolina Press.
Marlene S. Linville is a Ph.D. candidate in archaeology at the Graduate
School and University Center of the City University of New York. She is an