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.
Publications
selected publications
article
Giovas, Christina M., Fitzpatrick, Scott M., Leppard, Thomas P., Hubbe, Mark, Pestle, William J., Siegel, Peter E., Curet, L. Antonio, Oliver, Jose R., Boomert, Arie, and Callaghan, Richard T. 2021. "Craniofacial morphology does not support a pre-contact Carib "invasion" of the northern Caribbean." Scientific Reports 11 (1):https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95558-72021
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/10.7183/1045-6635.25.2.1252014
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.2013.01.0202013
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/10.7183/1045-6635.24.3.2432013
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.2010.08.0032010
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. 2011. "Colonialism and the History of Archaeology in the Spanish Caribbean." in Comparative Archaeologies: A Sociological View of the Science of the Past, edited by Lozny, Ludomir R., 641-672. Springer.
2011
review
Curet, L. Antonio. 2014. [Book review] "Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology." Journal of Caribbean Archaeology. 50-54.
2014