Crossing the Borders: New Methods and Techniques in the Study of Archaeological Materials from the Caribbean

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Wales, U.K. since 1994, and, since 2002, has worked principally with the Llangynidr
History Society on two medieval sites in the Brecon Beacons mountain range.
Daan Isendoorn is a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.
His research focus is on the identification of the provenance areas of precolonial
exchange items from the Caribbean within the NWO- funded Vidi- project
“Mobility and Exchange: Dynamics of Material, Social, and Ideological Relations
in the Pre- Columbian Insular Caribbean,” directed by Prof. dr. Corinne Hofman.
Loe Jacobs is a ceramist at the Ceramic Laboratory of the Faculty of Archaeology,
Leiden University. He has been involved, among others, in the Leiden Caribbean
research projects since the 1980s and is coauthor of many publications on
pottery technology.
William F. Keegan is curator of Caribbean archaeology at the Florida Museum
of Natural History, and professor of anthropology and Latin American Studies at
the University of Florida, Gainesville. He has directed research throughout the Caribbean
with a focus on social organization and cultural diversity.
Harold J. Kelly obtained his master’s degree in archaeology at Leiden University
in 2003 and since then has been working at the Archaeological Museum of
Aruba in the Scientific Department. He is specialized in experimental archaeology
and use- wear analysis on coral artifacts. He publishes on a regular bases in local
and international magazines, with rock art and the protection of cultural heritage
as special points of interest.
Sebastiaan Knippenberg is currently working for Archol BV, a contract archaeology
firm associated with Leiden University. He conducted and participated
in many fieldwork projects in the northern Lesser Antilles. Knippenberg recently
finished his Ph.D. dissertation about stone artifact production and exchange during
the Ceramic Age in the northern Lesser Antilles. During the course of this
Ph.D. work he visited many islands and studied collections from many sites.
Yvonne M. J. Lammers- Keijsers is preparing a Ph.D. thesis at Leiden University
on the functional analysis of shell tools and flint and stone implements from the
pre- Columbian sites of Morel and Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe. She is currently
working for The Foundation for Dutch Archaeology.
Michaela Lucci, Ph.D., is contract research collaborator of the Department of
Human and Animal Biology at the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” She has participated
in the studies regarding the Caribbean precontact populations examining
anthropological remains in the Dominican Republic, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and
in Florida. She is a member of the Italian archaeo- anthropological mission in the
Dominican Republic.
Fernando Luna Calderón has been director of the Department of Physical Anthropology
and director of the Dominican Museo del Hombre, and afterwards director
of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, a role he held to the day of his
premature death in 2005. He has taken part in all of the most important excava-
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