Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology

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adjunct lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Hunter College,
where she has also served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow. In addition to rock
art, her research interests includes material culture, symbolism, and the emergence
of complex societies among the Amerindian cultures of the Caribbean
and northern South America. A specialist in the analysis of marine shell artifacts,
she is currently working as both contributor and coeditor of a volume
that focuses on marine shell artifacts in the Archaeological Museum of Aruba.
César A. Rodríguez Arce is assistant researcher at the Departamento Centro
Oriental de Arqueología, Delegación del Ministerio de Ciencias, Tecnología
y Medio Ambiente en Holguín, Cuba. A veterinarian, he specializes
in the precolumbian archaeology of Cuba, particularly in zooarchaeology and
physical anthropology.
Theresa A. Singleton is associate professor, Department of Anthropology,
Syracuse University. Her interests include African diasporas, slavery, and plantation
life in the southern United States and the Caribbean. She has edited
two books on the archaeological study of African-American life, The Archaeology
of Slavery and Plantation Life (Academic Press, 1985) and I, too, am
America: Studies in the Archaeology of African Life (University of Virginia
Press, 1999), and has written numerous articles and book chapters on this
subject.
Jorge Ulloa Hung received his licienciate in history in 1988 and his master’s
in 1999, both from the Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba. He is an
assistant researcher of the Casa del Caribe and a coordinator of the journal El
Caribe Arqueológico. He is a professor in Area de Ciencias Sociales del Instituto
Technológico de Santo Domingo. His research has been on the foraging
ceramic communities of southeastern Cuba, the protoagrícola communities in
Holguín, and a historic study of the Hospital de las Minas del Cobre. With
Roberto Valcárcel he has published a monograph titled Cerámica temprana en
el centro oriente de Cuba (2003). He also published a book titled Arqueología en
la iglesia de Macao with Elpidio Ortega and Gabriel Atiles and a number of articles
in volumes including Santiago de Cuba. La ciudad revisitada, Santiago de
Cuba, Trescientos años de historiografía, and Las culturas aborígenes del Caribe.
Roberto Valcárcel Rojas is assistant researcher at the Departamento Centro
Oriental de Arqueología, Delegación del Ministerio de Ciencias, Tec-