L. Antonio Curet is a Curator of the National Museum of the American Indian. He was born in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico in 1960 and attended the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras where he obtained his B.A. and M.A. in Chemistry. Curet received his Ph.D. in 1992 from Arizona State University. He was part of the faculty at Gettysburg College (1993-1996) and University of Colorado at Denver (1996-2000). From 2000 to 2013 he was Curator at the Field Museum and Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, and DePaul University. His research focuses on cultural and social change in the Ancient Caribbean, but he has participated also in archaeological projects in Arizona, Puerto Rico, and Veracruz, Mexico. He has directed several projects including Excavations at La Gallera, Ceiba, Puerto Rico and the Archaeological Project of the Valley of Maunabo. Since 1995 he has been conducting excavations at the Ceremonial Center of Tibes, Ponce, Puerto Rico and in 2013 began co-directing a regional project in the Valley of Añasco in Western Puerto Rico. Curet has published multiple articles in national and international journals, a book on Caribbean paleodemography, and has edited volumes on Cuban Archaeology, the archaeology of Tibes, Puerto Rico, and long-distance interaction in the Caribbean. He is also in the editorial boards of the Journal for Caribbean Archaeology, Revista Arqueológica del Area Intermedia, and Latin American Antiquity, Antípoda (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) and is the editor of the Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory Book Series of the University of Alabama Press.
Curet, L. Antonio. 2015. "Indigenous Revival, Indigeneity, and the Jíbaro in Borikén." Centro Journal, 27, (1) 206–247.
2015
Torres, Joshua M., Curet, L. Antonio, Rice-Snow, Scott, Castor, Melissa J., and Castor, Andrew K. 2014. "Of flesh and stone: labor investment and regional sociopolitical implications of Plaza/Batey construction at the ceremonial center of Tibes (A.D. 600-A.D. 1200), Puerto Rico." Latin American Antiquity, 25, (2) 125–151. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.25.2.125.
2014
Pestle, William J., Simonetti, Antonio, and Curet, L. Antonio. 2013. "87Srl86Sr Variability in Puerto Rico: Geological Complexity and the Study of Paleomobility." Journal of Archaeological Science, 40, (5) 2561–2569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.01.020.
2013
Pestle, William J., Curet, L. Antonio, Rodríguez Ramos, Reniel, and Rodríguez, Miguel A. 2013. "New Questions and Old Paradigms: Reexamining Caribbean Culture History." Latin American Antiquity, 24, (3) 243–261. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.24.3.243.
2013
Curet, L. Antonio and Pestle, William J. 2010. "Identifying High Status Foods in the Archaeological Record." Journal of Archaeological Science, 29, (4) 413–431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2010.08.003.
2010
Curet, L. Antonio. 2008. "Las Crónicas en la Arqueología de Puerto Rico y del Caribe." Caribbean Studies, 34, (1) 163–199.
2008
Curet, L. Antonio and Oliver, Jose R. 2022. "Following the Bread Crumbs: Epistemological and methodological issues in the interpretations of long-distance trade in the Caribbean." In Trade before Civilization Long Distance Exchange and the Rise of Social Complexity. Ling, Johan, Chacon, Richard, and Kristiansen, Kristian, editors. 361–384. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009086547.019.
2022
Curet, L. Antonio and Oliver, Jose R. 2021. "Caribbean-Central American Long-Distance Interaction – a Cautionary Note." In Pre-Columbian Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador : Toward an Integrated Approach. McEwan, Colin and Hoopes, John W., editors. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
2021
Curet, L. Antonio. 2021. "Epilogue: Confessions of an Archaeologist/Curator/Puerto Rican." In Real, Recent, Replica: Precolumbian Caribbean Heritage as Art, Commodity, and Inspiration. Ostapkowicz, Joanna and Hanna, Jonathan A., editors. 449–466. In Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory.
2021
Curet, L. Antonio. 2011. "Colonialism and the History of Archaeology in the Spanish Caribbean." In Comparative Archaeologies: A Sociological View of the Science of the Past. Lozny, Ludomir R., editor. 641–672. London: Springer.
2011
Curet, L. Antonio and Hauser, Mark W., editors. 2011. Islands at the Crossroads: Migration, Seafaring, and Interaction in the Caribbean. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
2011
Kepecs, Susan, Curet, L. Antonio, La Rosa, Gabino, and Stringer, L. M., editors. 2010. Beyond the Blockade: New Archaeology in Cuba. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
2010
