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

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tions of pre- Columbian sites and cemeteries in the Dominican Republic, as well
as in excavations in Martinique, Puerto Rico, and Bolivia. He has been the leading
expert of paleopathology of the Taíno populations of the Dominican Republic
and has been codirector of the excavation of Loma Candelon in collaboration with
the Italian archaeo- anthropological mission in the Dominican Republic.
Marcos Martinón- Torres is lecturer in archaeological science and material culture
at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He has a special
interest in the integration of scientific, archaeological, and textual approaches to
materials and technologies, and the way in which these inform about past theories
and practices. He has worked primarily on medieval and later metallurgy and alchemy
in the Old and New Worlds.
Lee A. Newsom is associate professor of archaeological anthropology at the
Pennsylvania State University. Her research is focused in paleoethnobotany with
emphasis on human- landscape interactions and the sustainability of biological
resources. She has analyzed archaeobotanical assemblages from throughout the
Caribbean in collaboration with researchers from several institutions, and is currently
involved in projects in the Lesser Antilles islands, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola,
and Florida.
Channah Nieuwenhuis is a wear trace and residue specialist working at the
Laboratory for Artifact Studies at the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University
in the Netherlands. She conducted Ph.D. research on chert artifacts from preceramic
sites in Colombia. For the past two years she has studied wear traces on
artifacts from various sites in the Netherlands and South America and has been
engaged in building a reference collection for residue analysis like phytoliths and
starch.
José R. Oliver is a lecturer in Latin American archaeology at the Institute of
Archaeology, University College London. He has conducted research in Venezuela
and the Caribbean, particularly in Puerto Rico, for which he has received
grants from the British Academy, the Consejo Para la Protecciòn del Patrimonio
Arqueo lògico de Puerto Rico, and the Puerto Rico State Preservation Historical
Office. Research is currently focused on the civic- ceremonial centers (bateyes) of
the Caguana- Utuado region and on village lifeways and agrarian economies of late
(Taíno) societies in Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic.
Jaime R. Pagán Jiménez is a Puerto Rican archaeo- ethnobotanist and independent
researcher/ consultant in cultural resources management. His main works deal
with the early introduction of useful plants into the Caribbean islands and with
the interregional dynamics developed around the spread of plants and culinarycultural
traditions of the circum- Caribbean. Other lines of interest are the sociopolitical
dimensions of the archaeological practices within Latin America and the
Caribbean.
Raphaël G. A. M. Panhuysen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Ar-
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