Andrzej T Antczak
Biographic Data
| ID | 984552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrzej T Antczak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrzej T |
| FAMILY NAME | Antczak |
| SIGNATURE | ANTCZAK A T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2739-8146 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Indigenous Routes and Resource Materialities in the Early Spanish Colonial World: Comparative Archaeological Approaches
The early colonial period witnessed new scales of connectivity and unprecedented projects of resource extraction across the Spanish Americas. Yet such transformations also drew heavily on preexisting Indigenous landscapes, technologies, and institutions. Drawing together recent discussions in archaeology and geography about mobility and resource materialities, this article takes the early colonial route as a central object of investigation and co…
History of the indigenous peoples of the sixteenth-century province of Caracas, Venezuela
Indigenous peoples forged their lives in present-day north-central Venezuela across millennia until confronted by Spanish conquerors in the early sixteenth century. Some historical trajectories wer
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas
Contributions of indigenous peoples to colonial encounters in the Americas were profound, varied, and dynamic. Instead of mere respondents, let alone passive bystanders, indigenous peoples were active agents in processes of colonialism, vital in the negotiation and recreation of new colonial realities. Paradoxically, they have long been some of the most invisible craftsmen of today's societies. However, recent archaeological scholarship continues…
Rancherías: Historical Archaeology of Early Colonial Campsites on Margarita and Coche Islands, Venezuela
In the early 16th century, the islands of Margarita, Coche and Cubagua lay at the core of the so-called 'Coast of Pearls' in northeastern Venezuela. Cubagua hosted Nueva Cádiz, one of the earliest Spanish towns in South America, since 1528. Despite such precocious credentials, the understanding of early colonial realities on these islands has almost entirely relied on documentary sources with only a small contribution from archaeology. Excavation…
Vibrant pasts in museum drawers: Advances in the study of late precolonial (AD 800–1500) materials collected from north-central Venezuela
Starting in the second half of the nineteenth century, museums and private collectors across the Americas and Europe began amassing objects produced by the indigenous peoples of north-central Venezuela before the European conquest. The rich imagery displayed on decorated pottery and figurines, as well as on skilfully made body ornaments, strongly appealed to the aesthetic tastes of the museum curators and visitors of that time. With some laudable…
Avian Remains from Late Pre-colonial Amerindian sites on Islands of the Venezuelan Caribbean
This paper presents the results of the analyses of 3793 bird remains archaeologically recovered from seven late pre-Hispanic sites (∼AD 1000–1500) on islands of the Venezuelan Caribbean. In order to address subsistence and manufacturing uses of bird bones, we first discuss the recovery process of this unique sample. We proceed to investigate the bones' archaeological contexts as well as the taphonomy in play and analyze diverse bone categories. W…
Sourcing nonnative mammal remains from Dos Mosquises Island, Venezuela: New Multiple Isotope Evidence
Re-thinking the Migration of Cariban-Speakers from the Middle Orinoco River to North-Central Venezuela (AD 800)
Challenges for microwear analysis of figurative shell ornaments from pre-Colonial Venezuela
Risky business: Historical archaeology of the Dutch salt enterprise on La Tortuga Island, Venezuela (1624–38)
In the decades of the 1620s and 1630s the Dutch engaged in salt extraction on the island of La Tortuga, Venezuela, erecting a wooden fort, portable cannon emplacements, jetties and semi-industrial solar saltpan production facilities. The relative paucity of the archaeological record juxtaposed with the wealth of detailed documentary data and fieldwork experiences led to the operationalization of the heuristic tool of ‘scapes’. A critical construc…
Sourcing nonnative mammal remains from Dos Mosquises Island, Venezuela: New Multiple Isotope Evidence
Re-thinking the Migration of Cariban-Speakers from the Middle Orinoco River to North-Central Venezuela (AD 800)
Challenges for microwear analysis of figurative shell ornaments from pre-Colonial Venezuela
Risky business: Historical archaeology of the Dutch salt enterprise on La Tortuga Island, Venezuela (1624–38)
In the decades of the 1620s and 1630s the Dutch engaged in salt extraction on the island of La Tortuga, Venezuela, erecting a wooden fort, portable cannon emplacements, jetties and semi-industrial solar saltpan production facilities. The relative paucity of the archaeological record juxtaposed with the wealth of detailed documentary data and fieldwork experiences led to the operationalization of the heuristic tool of ‘scapes’. A critical construc…
Indigenous Routes and Resource Materialities in the Early Spanish Colonial World: Comparative Archaeological Approaches
The early colonial period witnessed new scales of connectivity and unprecedented projects of resource extraction across the Spanish Americas. Yet such transformations also drew heavily on preexisting Indigenous landscapes, technologies, and institutions. Drawing together recent discussions in archaeology and geography about mobility and resource materialities, this article takes the early colonial route as a central object of investigation and co…
History of the indigenous peoples of the sixteenth-century province of Caracas, Venezuela
Indigenous peoples forged their lives in present-day north-central Venezuela across millennia until confronted by Spanish conquerors in the early sixteenth century. Some historical trajectories wer
Vibrant pasts in museum drawers: Advances in the study of late precolonial (AD 800–1500) materials collected from north-central Venezuela
Starting in the second half of the nineteenth century, museums and private collectors across the Americas and Europe began amassing objects produced by the indigenous peoples of north-central Venezuela before the European conquest. The rich imagery displayed on decorated pottery and figurines, as well as on skilfully made body ornaments, strongly appealed to the aesthetic tastes of the museum curators and visitors of that time. With some laudable…
Risky business: Historical archaeology of the Dutch salt enterprise on La Tortuga Island, Venezuela (1624–38)
In the decades of the 1620s and 1630s the Dutch engaged in salt extraction on the island of La Tortuga, Venezuela, erecting a wooden fort, portable cannon emplacements, jetties and semi-industrial solar saltpan production facilities. The relative paucity of the archaeological record juxtaposed with the wealth of detailed documentary data and fieldwork experiences led to the operationalization of the heuristic tool of ‘scapes’. A critical construc…
Challenges for microwear analysis of figurative shell ornaments from pre-Colonial Venezuela
Re-thinking the Migration of Cariban-Speakers from the Middle Orinoco River to North-Central Venezuela (AD 800)
Sourcing nonnative mammal remains from Dos Mosquises Island, Venezuela: New Multiple Isotope Evidence
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas
Contributions of indigenous peoples to colonial encounters in the Americas were profound, varied, and dynamic. Instead of mere respondents, let alone passive bystanders, indigenous peoples were active agents in processes of colonialism, vital in the negotiation and recreation of new colonial realities. Paradoxically, they have long been some of the most invisible craftsmen of today's societies. However, recent archaeological scholarship continues…
Rancherías: Historical Archaeology of Early Colonial Campsites on Margarita and Coche Islands, Venezuela
In the early 16th century, the islands of Margarita, Coche and Cubagua lay at the core of the so-called 'Coast of Pearls' in northeastern Venezuela. Cubagua hosted Nueva Cádiz, one of the earliest Spanish towns in South America, since 1528. Despite such precocious credentials, the understanding of early colonial realities on these islands has almost entirely relied on documentary sources with only a small contribution from archaeology. Excavation…
Vibrant pasts in museum drawers: Advances in the study of late precolonial (AD 800–1500) materials collected from north-central Venezuela
Starting in the second half of the nineteenth century, museums and private collectors across the Americas and Europe began amassing objects produced by the indigenous peoples of north-central Venezuela before the European conquest. The rich imagery displayed on decorated pottery and figurines, as well as on skilfully made body ornaments, strongly appealed to the aesthetic tastes of the museum curators and visitors of that time. With some laudable…
Avian Remains from Late Pre-colonial Amerindian sites on Islands of the Venezuelan Caribbean
This paper presents the results of the analyses of 3793 bird remains archaeologically recovered from seven late pre-Hispanic sites (∼AD 1000–1500) on islands of the Venezuelan Caribbean. In order to address subsistence and manufacturing uses of bird bones, we first discuss the recovery process of this unique sample. We proceed to investigate the bones' archaeological contexts as well as the taphonomy in play and analyze diverse bone categories. W…
History of the indigenous peoples of the sixteenth-century province of Caracas, Venezuela
Indigenous peoples forged their lives in present-day north-central Venezuela across millennia until confronted by Spanish conquerors in the early sixteenth century. Some historical trajectories wer
Indigenous Routes and Resource Materialities in the Early Spanish Colonial World: Comparative Archaeological Approaches
The early colonial period witnessed new scales of connectivity and unprecedented projects of resource extraction across the Spanish Americas. Yet such transformations also drew heavily on preexisting Indigenous landscapes, technologies, and institutions. Drawing together recent discussions in archaeology and geography about mobility and resource materialities, this article takes the early colonial route as a central object of investigation and co…
Archaeology (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (7 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · History (5 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Ethnology (4 works)