L Antonio Curet
Biographic Data
| ID | 3642292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Antonio Curet |
| GIVEN NAMES | L Antonio |
| FAMILY NAME | Curet |
| SIGNATURE | CURET L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Field Museum of Natural History |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 167 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Arqueología para América Latina en el siglo XXI
Objective/context: The purpose of this article is to provide the historical and theoretical framework of Latin American archaeology to contextualize the essays included in this volume. It is argued that recent changes in this discipline arise as part of a self-evaluation of archaeologists in relation to the colonialist origin of this science. Methodology: The article begins with a brief discussion of the most recent significant changes that have …
Of Flesh and Stone
Ceremonial architecture of late precontact (A.D. 600-1500) societies of Puerto Rico consists of stone-lined plazas and ball courts ( bateys ,). Archaeologists use these structures to signify the onset of hierarchical “chiefly” polities and to interpret their regional organization. Problematically, little consideration is given to the costs of their physical construction and the associated organizational implications at local and regional scales. …
The Taíno
The Taíno term and concept has traditionally been used as a designation of some form of cultural identity for the groups that occupied the Greater Antilles at the time of contact. This perspective assumes that these groups shared a cultural background because of a common ancestry. However, this position has been questioned in recent years, and many problems with the concept have been brought to light. This article presents the history of the conc…
Sr/86Sr variability in Puerto Rico
New Questions and Old Paradigms
One of the central goals of archaeology is the definition of regional cultural succession. Since at least the 1960s, archaeology has purported to have moved beyond the strictures of Culture History, and yet the constructs of that paradigm (styles, periods, cultures) continue to be used routinely. This work aims to show that by doing so, one is still implicitly subscribing to that theoretical perspective"s assumptions and biases. In the end, this …
Colonialism and the History of Archaeology in the Spanish Caribbean
Identifying high-status foods in the archeological record
The Archaeological Perspective
The Pre-Arawak Pottery Horizon in the Antilles
Pottery in contexts that predate the entrance of Arawak societies to the Antilles (500 B.C.) by at least one millennium demand a reassessment of the introduction of this technology to the islands. We summarize the available evidence of what we term the Pre-Arawak Pottery horizon and address the social implications of the introduction of such technology to the insular Caribbean, based on the role of pots as tools. We show that this early pottery i…
Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology
P]rovides a forum for principal Cuban and American archaeologists to update the current state of Cuban archaeological research --from rock art and potsherds to mortuary practices and historical renovation --thereby filling in the information gap created by political separation.Each group of researchers brings significant new resources to the effort, including strong conservation regulations, innovative studies of lithic and shell assemblages, and…
Missing the Point and an Illuminating Example
Research Article| April 01 2006 Missing the Point and an Illuminating Example: A Response to Keegan's Comments L. Antonio Curet L. Antonio Curet Field Museum of Natural History Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 393–398. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-53-2-393 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation L. Antonio Curet; Missing the Point an…
Prehispanic Social and Cultural Changes at Tibes, Puerto Rico
we present here the initial results of the Proyecto Arqueológico del Centro Ceremonial de Tibes. The aim of the project is to study changes in the social, political, and economic systems at Tibes, the earliest civic and ceremonial center in the Caribbean. Tibes was founded as a village around A.D. 1, and sometime between A.D. 600 and A.D. 900 experienced major changes that eventually resulted in the development of a center with multiple ball cour…
Issues on the Diversity and Emergence of Middle-Range Societies of the Ancient Caribbean
The Chief Is Dead, Long Live… Who? Descent and Succession in the Protohistoric Chiefdoms of the Greater Antilles
The rules of succession described in the early Spanish chronicles for Caribbean chiefdoms have been used by many scholars to reconstruct a Taino kinship system. This article argues that these conclusions were reached by using unfounded assumptions, especially confusing rules of succession with rules of descent. Furthermore, it is suggested here that Taino rules of succession were not simply about the right to govern through descent but were a for…
Mortuary Practices, Social Development, and Ideology in Precolumbian Puerto Rico
Mortuary practices rank among the best sources of archaeological data from which to infer social organization, ideology, religious beliefs, and to a certain extent, the political structure of past societies. This essay (1) reviews mortuary practices among prehistoric groups of Puerto Rico, (2) proposes a possible sequence of changes through time, and (3) presents explanations that account for the observed changes. Aside from evident correlation w…
New formulae for estimating prehistoric populations for lowland South America and the Caribbean
The estimation of past population levels continues to be an important aspect of archaeological research. Here Antonio Curet offers new formulae for estimating prehistoric populations in lowland South America and the Caribbean using data derived from houses and settlements
Technological Changes in Prehistoric Ceramics from Eastern Puerto Rico
Ideology, Chiefly Power, and Material Culture
Temporal changes in material culture normally have been used by archaeologists to reconstruct the cultural history of an area or site. In the case of the Caribbean, shifts in artifactual style have been used to trace prehistoric migrations and interactions between different cultural groups. Unfortunately, there have been few attempts to explain these changes in terms of the social structures of these cultures. This paper reviews the archaeologica…
The Development of the Classic-Period Mixtequilla in South-Central Veracruz, Mexico
We examine ceramic and settlement-pattern changes in the Mixtequilla, Veracruz, during the Preclassic and Classic periods with special attention to the periods corresponding to the rise and decline of Teotihuacan. Data for the study derive from full-coverage survey of 40 square kilometers accompanied by systematic surface collections. Collections are analyzed using a suite of multivariate techniques to study changes in pottery that, in turn, prov…
Postclassic Changes in Veracruz, Mexico
With systematic surface collections from the Mixtequilla region of Veracruz, Mexico, multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis distinguish two Postclassic complexes and permit examination of their associated settlement patterns. Comparison of pottery types to other assemblages provides cross dating and allows judgments about stylistic affinities. The earlier of the two complexes, assigned to the Middle Postclassic, ca.a.d.1200–1350, exhibits …
Mortuary Practices, Social Development, and Ideology in Precolumbian Puerto Rico
Mortuary practices rank among the best sources of archaeological data from which to infer social organization, ideology, religious beliefs, and to a certain extent, the political structure of past societies. This essay (1) reviews mortuary practices among prehistoric groups of Puerto Rico, (2) proposes a possible sequence of changes through time, and (3) presents explanations that account for the observed changes. Aside from evident correlation w…
Ideology, Chiefly Power, and Material Culture
Temporal changes in material culture normally have been used by archaeologists to reconstruct the cultural history of an area or site. In the case of the Caribbean, shifts in artifactual style have been used to trace prehistoric migrations and interactions between different cultural groups. Unfortunately, there have been few attempts to explain these changes in terms of the social structures of these cultures. This paper reviews the archaeologica…
Issues on the Diversity and Emergence of Middle-Range Societies of the Ancient Caribbean
Postclassic Changes in Veracruz, Mexico
With systematic surface collections from the Mixtequilla region of Veracruz, Mexico, multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis distinguish two Postclassic complexes and permit examination of their associated settlement patterns. Comparison of pottery types to other assemblages provides cross dating and allows judgments about stylistic affinities. The earlier of the two complexes, assigned to the Middle Postclassic, ca.a.d.1200–1350, exhibits …
Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology
P]rovides a forum for principal Cuban and American archaeologists to update the current state of Cuban archaeological research --from rock art and potsherds to mortuary practices and historical renovation --thereby filling in the information gap created by political separation.Each group of researchers brings significant new resources to the effort, including strong conservation regulations, innovative studies of lithic and shell assemblages, and…
The Development of the Classic-Period Mixtequilla in South-Central Veracruz, Mexico
We examine ceramic and settlement-pattern changes in the Mixtequilla, Veracruz, during the Preclassic and Classic periods with special attention to the periods corresponding to the rise and decline of Teotihuacan. Data for the study derive from full-coverage survey of 40 square kilometers accompanied by systematic surface collections. Collections are analyzed using a suite of multivariate techniques to study changes in pottery that, in turn, prov…
The Pre-Arawak Pottery Horizon in the Antilles
Pottery in contexts that predate the entrance of Arawak societies to the Antilles (500 B.C.) by at least one millennium demand a reassessment of the introduction of this technology to the islands. We summarize the available evidence of what we term the Pre-Arawak Pottery horizon and address the social implications of the introduction of such technology to the insular Caribbean, based on the role of pots as tools. We show that this early pottery i…
New Questions and Old Paradigms
One of the central goals of archaeology is the definition of regional cultural succession. Since at least the 1960s, archaeology has purported to have moved beyond the strictures of Culture History, and yet the constructs of that paradigm (styles, periods, cultures) continue to be used routinely. This work aims to show that by doing so, one is still implicitly subscribing to that theoretical perspective"s assumptions and biases. In the end, this …
The Taíno
The Taíno term and concept has traditionally been used as a designation of some form of cultural identity for the groups that occupied the Greater Antilles at the time of contact. This perspective assumes that these groups shared a cultural background because of a common ancestry. However, this position has been questioned in recent years, and many problems with the concept have been brought to light. This article presents the history of the conc…
Sr/86Sr variability in Puerto Rico
Technological Changes in Prehistoric Ceramics from Eastern Puerto Rico
Of Flesh and Stone
Ceremonial architecture of late precontact (A.D. 600-1500) societies of Puerto Rico consists of stone-lined plazas and ball courts ( bateys ,). Archaeologists use these structures to signify the onset of hierarchical “chiefly” polities and to interpret their regional organization. Problematically, little consideration is given to the costs of their physical construction and the associated organizational implications at local and regional scales. …
Prehispanic Social and Cultural Changes at Tibes, Puerto Rico
we present here the initial results of the Proyecto Arqueológico del Centro Ceremonial de Tibes. The aim of the project is to study changes in the social, political, and economic systems at Tibes, the earliest civic and ceremonial center in the Caribbean. Tibes was founded as a village around A.D. 1, and sometime between A.D. 600 and A.D. 900 experienced major changes that eventually resulted in the development of a center with multiple ball cour…
New formulae for estimating prehistoric populations for lowland South America and the Caribbean
The estimation of past population levels continues to be an important aspect of archaeological research. Here Antonio Curet offers new formulae for estimating prehistoric populations in lowland South America and the Caribbean using data derived from houses and settlements
The Archaeological Perspective
Missing the Point and an Illuminating Example
Research Article| April 01 2006 Missing the Point and an Illuminating Example: A Response to Keegan's Comments L. Antonio Curet L. Antonio Curet Field Museum of Natural History Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 393–398. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-53-2-393 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation L. Antonio Curet; Missing the Point an…
The Development of the Classic-Period Mixtequilla in South-Central Veracruz, Mexico
We examine ceramic and settlement-pattern changes in the Mixtequilla, Veracruz, during the Preclassic and Classic periods with special attention to the periods corresponding to the rise and decline of Teotihuacan. Data for the study derive from full-coverage survey of 40 square kilometers accompanied by systematic surface collections. Collections are analyzed using a suite of multivariate techniques to study changes in pottery that, in turn, prov…
Postclassic Changes in Veracruz, Mexico
With systematic surface collections from the Mixtequilla region of Veracruz, Mexico, multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis distinguish two Postclassic complexes and permit examination of their associated settlement patterns. Comparison of pottery types to other assemblages provides cross dating and allows judgments about stylistic affinities. The earlier of the two complexes, assigned to the Middle Postclassic, ca.a.d.1200–1350, exhibits …
Ideology, Chiefly Power, and Material Culture
Temporal changes in material culture normally have been used by archaeologists to reconstruct the cultural history of an area or site. In the case of the Caribbean, shifts in artifactual style have been used to trace prehistoric migrations and interactions between different cultural groups. Unfortunately, there have been few attempts to explain these changes in terms of the social structures of these cultures. This paper reviews the archaeologica…
Technological Changes in Prehistoric Ceramics from Eastern Puerto Rico
Mortuary Practices, Social Development, and Ideology in Precolumbian Puerto Rico
Mortuary practices rank among the best sources of archaeological data from which to infer social organization, ideology, religious beliefs, and to a certain extent, the political structure of past societies. This essay (1) reviews mortuary practices among prehistoric groups of Puerto Rico, (2) proposes a possible sequence of changes through time, and (3) presents explanations that account for the observed changes. Aside from evident correlation w…
New formulae for estimating prehistoric populations for lowland South America and the Caribbean
The estimation of past population levels continues to be an important aspect of archaeological research. Here Antonio Curet offers new formulae for estimating prehistoric populations in lowland South America and the Caribbean using data derived from houses and settlements
The Chief Is Dead, Long Live… Who? Descent and Succession in the Protohistoric Chiefdoms of the Greater Antilles
The rules of succession described in the early Spanish chronicles for Caribbean chiefdoms have been used by many scholars to reconstruct a Taino kinship system. This article argues that these conclusions were reached by using unfounded assumptions, especially confusing rules of succession with rules of descent. Furthermore, it is suggested here that Taino rules of succession were not simply about the right to govern through descent but were a for…
Issues on the Diversity and Emergence of Middle-Range Societies of the Ancient Caribbean
Missing the Point and an Illuminating Example
Research Article| April 01 2006 Missing the Point and an Illuminating Example: A Response to Keegan's Comments L. Antonio Curet L. Antonio Curet Field Museum of Natural History Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 393–398. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-53-2-393 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation L. Antonio Curet; Missing the Point an…
Prehispanic Social and Cultural Changes at Tibes, Puerto Rico
we present here the initial results of the Proyecto Arqueológico del Centro Ceremonial de Tibes. The aim of the project is to study changes in the social, political, and economic systems at Tibes, the earliest civic and ceremonial center in the Caribbean. Tibes was founded as a village around A.D. 1, and sometime between A.D. 600 and A.D. 900 experienced major changes that eventually resulted in the development of a center with multiple ball cour…
Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology
P]rovides a forum for principal Cuban and American archaeologists to update the current state of Cuban archaeological research --from rock art and potsherds to mortuary practices and historical renovation --thereby filling in the information gap created by political separation.Each group of researchers brings significant new resources to the effort, including strong conservation regulations, innovative studies of lithic and shell assemblages, and…
The Pre-Arawak Pottery Horizon in the Antilles
Pottery in contexts that predate the entrance of Arawak societies to the Antilles (500 B.C.) by at least one millennium demand a reassessment of the introduction of this technology to the islands. We summarize the available evidence of what we term the Pre-Arawak Pottery horizon and address the social implications of the introduction of such technology to the insular Caribbean, based on the role of pots as tools. We show that this early pottery i…
Identifying high-status foods in the archeological record
The Archaeological Perspective
Colonialism and the History of Archaeology in the Spanish Caribbean
Sr/86Sr variability in Puerto Rico
New Questions and Old Paradigms
One of the central goals of archaeology is the definition of regional cultural succession. Since at least the 1960s, archaeology has purported to have moved beyond the strictures of Culture History, and yet the constructs of that paradigm (styles, periods, cultures) continue to be used routinely. This work aims to show that by doing so, one is still implicitly subscribing to that theoretical perspective"s assumptions and biases. In the end, this …
Of Flesh and Stone
Ceremonial architecture of late precontact (A.D. 600-1500) societies of Puerto Rico consists of stone-lined plazas and ball courts ( bateys ,). Archaeologists use these structures to signify the onset of hierarchical “chiefly” polities and to interpret their regional organization. Problematically, little consideration is given to the costs of their physical construction and the associated organizational implications at local and regional scales. …
The Taíno
The Taíno term and concept has traditionally been used as a designation of some form of cultural identity for the groups that occupied the Greater Antilles at the time of contact. This perspective assumes that these groups shared a cultural background because of a common ancestry. However, this position has been questioned in recent years, and many problems with the concept have been brought to light. This article presents the history of the conc…
Arqueología para América Latina en el siglo XXI
Objective/context: The purpose of this article is to provide the historical and theoretical framework of Latin American archaeology to contextualize the essays included in this volume. It is argued that recent changes in this discipline arise as part of a self-evaluation of archaeologists in relation to the colonialist origin of this science. Methodology: The article begins with a brief discussion of the most recent significant changes that have …
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