Publicaciones

Valcárcel Rojas, R.  2024. Mujeres indígenas en tiempos de conquista y colonización. La isla de La Española. Revista de Arqueología Americana, (41), 115–142. https://doi.org/10.35424/rearam.i41.4310

Samson, Alice & Cooper, Jago & Martínez Milantchí, María & Puigdoller, Victor & Nieves, Miguel. 2023. Caring labor and the affective economy in the making of the Caribbean. American Anthropologist. 125. 824-839. 10.1111/aman.13908.

Valcárcel Rojas, R. et al. 2023. Bernardo Vega y los estudios de arqueometalurgia en el Caribe. Cuba Arqueológica 16(1):16-27. (Co-authored with M. Martinón-Torres).

Valcárcel Rojas, Roberto, and Jana Pesoutova. ‘’Manipulation of the Concept “Indian” in the Caribbean: The Greater Antilles’. In The Oxford Handbook of Global Indigenous Archaeologies, edited by Claire Smith. 2023.

Valcárcel Rojas, R. et al. 2020 Diverse and Dynamic Dietary Patterns in Early Colonial Cuba: New Insights from Multiple Isotope Analyses. Latin American Antiquity _31(1):103–121. (Co-authored with J.E. Laffoon, D. A. Weston, M. L. Hoogland, G. R. Davies, and C. L. Hofman.) doi:10.1017/laq.2019.103.

Valcárcel Rojas, R.  2020 Cerámicas taínas, restauración empírica y coleccionismo: estudios arqueológicos en el Centro Cultural León, República Dominicana. Cuba Arqueológica 13(2):11-30.

Laffoon, Jason E., Valcarcel Rojas, Roberto, Weston, Darlene A., Hoogland, Menno L. P., Davies, Gareth R., and Hofman, Corinne L. ‘Diverse and Dynamic Dietary Patterns in Early Colonial Cuba’. Latin American Antiquity 31, no. 1 (2020): 103–21.

Valcárcel Rojas, R. et al. 2020 Review of Surviving Spanish Conquest: Indian fight, Flight and Cultural Transformation in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, by Karen F. Anderson-Córdova. New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West Indische Gids, 94(1-2):135–136. doi.org/10.1163/22134360-09401042.

Valcárcel Rojas, R. et al. 2020 Indios en La Habana: una experiencia para seguir buscándolos.  Cuba Arqueologica, Revista Digital de Arqueología de Cuba y el Caribe 13(1):98-102.

Douglass, K. & Cooper, J. 2020. Archaeology, environmental justice, and climate change on islands of the Caribbean and southwestern Indian Ocean. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117/15.

Valcárcel Rojas, Roberto, Jason E. Laffoon, Darlene A. Weston, Menno L. P. Hoogland, and Corinne L. Hofman. ‘Slavery of Indigenous People in the Caribbean: An Archaeological Perspective’. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, ahead of print, 2019.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-019-00522-x.

Lace, M., Albury, N., Samson, A, Cooper, J & Rodrìguez Ramos, R. 2019. Ship Graffiti on the Islands of the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos and Puerto Rico: A Comparative Analysis. Journal of Maritime Archaeology.

Valcárcel Rojas, Roberto, and Jorge Ulloa Hung. De La Desaparición a La Permanencia: Indígenas e Indios En La Reinvención Del Caribe. Vol. 2. Fundación García Arévalo/INTEC, 2018.

Samson, A.V.M., Wrapson, L., Cartwright, C., Sahy, D., Stacey, R. & Cooper, J. 2017. Artists before Columbus: A multi-method characterization of the materials and practices of Caribbean cave art.Journal of Archaeological Science, 88.

Samson, Alice & Cooper, Jago & Caamaño-Dones, Josué. 2016. European Visitors in Native Spaces: Using Paleography to Investigate Early Religious Dynamics in the New World. Latin American Antiquity. 27 (4), pp. 443-461. 10.7183/1045-6635.27.4.443.

Valcárcel Rojas, Roberto. 2017. ‘Vestir al Otro En El Caribe. Ropas Para Indios y Pobres’. Ciencia y Sociedad 42, no. 3 (n.d.): 85–93.

Cooper, J., Samson, A.V.M., Nieves, M.A., Lace, M.J., Caamaño-Dones, J., Cartwright, C., Kambesis, P.N. and Frese, L. del O. 2016. “The Mona Chronicle”: the archaeology of early religious encounter in the New World’, Antiquity, 90(352), pp. 1054–1071.

Vieten, R., Winter, A., Samson, A.V.M., Cooper, J., Wrapson, L., Kambesis, P., Lace M. J. and Nieves, M. A. 2016. Quantifying the impact of human visitation in two cave chambers on Mona Island (Puerto Rico): implications for archaeological site conservation. In Cave and Karst Science 43, 2: 79–85

Valcárcel Rojas, Roberto. Archaeology of Early Colonial Interaction at El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba. Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series. University Press of Florida, 2016.

Valcárcel Rojas, Roberto. 2016. ‘Indians in Cuba: From Pre-Columbian Villages to the Colonial World’. In Cuban Archaeology in the Caribbean, edited by Ivan Roksandic. University Press of Florida.https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683400028.003.0012. 

Cooper, J. and Duncan, L. 2016. Applied Archaeology in the Americas: evaluating archaeological solutions to the impacts of global environmental change. In (eds.) Isendahl, C. & Stump, D. Applied Archaeology, Historical Ecology and the Useable Past. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 432-451.

Weston, DarLene A., and Roberto Valcárcel Rojas. ‘Communities in Contact: Health and Paleodemography at El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba’. In Cuban Archaeology in the Caribbean, edited by Ivan Roksandic. University Press of Florida, 2016.https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683400028.003.0007.

Samson, A. & Cooper, J. 2015. History of Isla de Mona: the diachronic dynamics of subterranean human interaction. In New West Indian Guide 89: 30-60.

Knight, Vernon James, and Roberto Valcarcel Rojas. ‘Pottery Vessel Function and Foodways at El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba’. Latin American Antiquity 26, no. 2 (2015): 260–78. Cambridge Core.https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.26.2.260.

Dearing, J., Acma, B. Bub, S., Chambers, F., Chen, X., Cooper, J., Crook, D., Dong, X., Dotterweich, M., Edwards, M., Foster, T., Gaillard, M-J., Galop, D., Gell, P., Gil, A., Jeffers, E., Jones, R., Anupama, K., Langdon, P., Marchant, R., Mazier, F., McLean, C., Nunes, L., Raman, S., Suryaprakash, I., Umer, M., Yang, X., Wang, R. & Zhang, R. 2015.  Social-Ecological systems in the Anthropocene: The need for integrating social and biophysical records at regional scales. In The Anthropocene Review. 1-27

Samson, A. & Cooper, J., 2015. La Historia de Dos Islas en un Mar Compartido: investigaciones pasadas y futuras en el pasaje de la Mona. El Boletín del Museo del Hombre Dominicano 46, 25–46.

Cooper, J. & Isendahl, C. 2014. Thinking Back to Look Ahead. In Global Change. Vol 83. 19-23.

Samson, A., Cooper, J., Nieves, M.A., Wrapson, L., Redhouse, D., Vieten, R-F., de Jesus Rullan, O., Lopez de Victoria, T.G., Palermo Gomez, A, Serrano Puigdoller, V. Torres Ortiz, D. & Vega de Jesus, A. 2014. Indigenous Cave Use on Isla de Mona, Puerto Rico. In The Proceedings of the XXV Congress of The International Association for Caribbean Archaeology. 25.

Pérez Iglesias, L., and R. Valcárcel Rojas. ‘Restos de Cerdo En Los Contextos Arqueológicos de 2014 El Chorro de Maíta, Holguín, Cuba’. Etnobiología 12, no. 2 (2014): 39–49.

Hofman, Corinne, Angus Mol, Menno Hoogland, and Roberto Valcárcel Rojas. ‘Stage of Encounters: Migration, Mobility and Interaction in the Pre-Colonial and Early Colonial Caribbean’. World Archaeology 46, no. 4 (2014): 590–609.https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2014.925820. 

Samson, A.V.M., Cooper, J., Nieves, M.A., Rodriguez-Ramos, R. Kambesis, P. & Lace, M. 2013. Cavescapes in the pre-Columbian Caribbean. Antiquity. Vol 87 Issue 338.

Valcárcel Rojas, Roberto, Alice V. M. Samson, and Menno L. P. Hoogland. ‘Indo-Hispanic Dynamics: From Contact to Colonial Interaction in the Greater Antilles’. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 17, no. 1 (2013): 18–39.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-012-0208-8.

Cooper, J. 2012. Fail to Prepare then Prepare to Fail: re-thinking threat, vulnerability and mitigation in the Precolumbian Caribbean. In (eds Cooper, J. & Sheets, P.) Surviving Sudden Environmental Change: Answers from Archaeology. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. 91-115.

Sheets, P. & Cooper, J. 2012. Living with the Dangers of Sudden Environmental Change. In (eds Cooper, J. & Sheets, P.) Surviving Sudden Environmental Change: Answers from Archaeology. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. 1-18.

Cooper J, and Thomas K. 2012. Constructing Caribbean Chronologies: comparative radiocarbon dating of shell and wood artefacts from precolumbian sites in Cuba. Archaeometry. 54:401-425.

Martinón-Torres, M., R. Valcárcel Rojas, Juanita Sáenz Samper, and María Filomena Guerra. ‘Metallic Encounters in Cuba: The Technology, Exchange and Meaning of Metals before and after Columbus’. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 31 (2012): 439–54.

Cooper, J. & Boothroyd, R. 2011. Living Islands of the Caribbean: A view of relative sea level change from the waters edge. In (eds Hofman, C. & van Duijvenbode, A.) Communities in Contact: Essays in archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnography of the Amerindian circum-Caribbean. Sidestone Press, Leiden. 393-406.

Cooper, J. & Peros, M. 2010. The Archaeology of Climate Change in the Caribbean. Journal of Archaeological Science. 37:1226–1232.

Valcárcel Rojas, R., Martinón-Torres, M., Cooper, J & Rehren, T.  2010.  Turey Treasure in the Caribbean.  In Beyond the Blockade: New Currents in Cuban Archaeology. (eds. Kepecs, S., Curet, A. & de la Rosa, G.). University of Alabama Press, Alabama.  106-125.

Cooper, J., M. Martinón-Torres, and R. Valcárcel Rojas. ‘American Gold and European Brass: Metal Objects and Indigenous Values in the Cemetery of El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba’. In Crossing the Borders. New Methods and Techniques in the Study of Archaeological Materials from the Caribbean, edited by C. L. Hofman, M. L. P. Hoogland, and A. L. Van Gijn. University of Alabama Press, 2008.

Conferences and other events

Many New Worlds: Alternative global histories through material stories, Symposium 371, Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, April 2025

Recent Advancements in the Archaeology of the Caribbean Region, hosted by The University of Florida Department of Anthropology, the George A. Smathers Libraries, and the Many New Worlds project, January 2026

Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology, 8th Annual Post-Medieval Archaeology Congress, May 2026.

Public engagement

Curso Creando Muchos Nuevos Mundos. Cuerpos, creencias y alimentos en el siglo XVI caribeño, hosted by Centro Cultual Eduardo León Jimenes: https://youtu.be/fqLDCzBjHe8

Guácara Podcast, Ep.16: Isla de Mona, Memoria Cultural Subterránea: Alice Samson y Jago Cooper

Slideshow of Rockart of Isla de la Mona: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwS0FKaJLUk