Arie Boomert
Guest researcher
- Name
- Dr. A. Boomert
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- boomert@kitlv.nl
Arie Boomert (1946) studied cultural anthropology and cultural prehistory at the University of Amsterdam (BA, 1968; MA, with honours, 1972) and Leiden University (Ph.D, 2000). He subsequently worked as an archaeologist at the Surinaams Museum, Paramaribo, Suriname (1973-1975), Leiden University (1976-1978), the University of Amsterdam (1979-1980), the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad (1980-1988), and as a desk editor at PlantijnCasparie Heerhugowaard (1988-2004). Since 2004 he has been employed at Leiden University again. In addition, he was the director of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology (1983-1987) and a member of the Advisary Board of Antropológica, Fundación La Salle, Caracas, Venezuela (1983-1999). He is the author of fifty publications, including articles in scholarly journals, papers in congress proceedings, contributions to encyclopaedias and edited works, book reviews and two monographs. His research interests include the archaeology, ethnohistory and linguistics of the West Indies, the Guianas and Amazonia.
Guest researcher
- Gelieerde instellingen
- Kon Inst Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde
- Hofman C.L., Martin J.A., Boomert A., Manem S.Y.P., Jacobson K.F. & Hoogland M.L.P. (2022), Reimagining Creolization : the deep history of cultural interactions in the Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles, through the lens of material culture, Latin American Antiquity 33(2): 279–296.
- Hofman C.L., Hoogland M.L.P., Jacobson K., Manem S. & Boomert A. (2021), Cayo in the Lesser Antilles: A network of peoples, places and practices in the late 15th to early 17th century. In: Barreto C., Lima H., Rostain S. & Hofman C.L. (Eds.), Koriabo, from the Caribbean Sea to the Amazon River. Leiden: Printerette.
- Hofman C.L., Hoogland M.L.P., Boomert A. & Martin J.A. (2019), Colonial Encounters in the Southern Lesser Antilles: Indigenous Resistance, Material Transformations, and Diversity in an Ever-Globalizing World. In: Hofman C.L. & Keehnen F.W.M. (Eds.), Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas. The Early Americas: History and Culture no. 9. Leiden: Brill. 359-384.
- Antczak A.T., Haviser J.B., Hoogland M.L.P., Boomert A., Dijkhoff R.A.C.F., Kelly H.J., Antczak M.M. & Hofman C.L. (2018), Early Horticulturalists of the Southern Caribbean. In: Reid B.A. (Ed.), The Archaeology of Caribbean and Circum-Caribbean Farmers (6000 BC - AD 1500). London: Routledge.
- Vermeer J.A.M., Stelten R., De Waal M., Hoogland M.L.P. & Boomert A. (2015), The discovery of a precolonial Golden Rock structure on the eve of destruction, St. Eustatius (Netherlands Antilles), Journal of the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology 19(1): 16-24.
- Hoogland M.L.P., Hofman C.L. & Boomert A. (2014), Argyle, St. Vincent: new insights on the Island Carib occupation of the Lesser Antilles. 24th Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology. Martinique.
- Boomert A. (2013), Gateway to the Mainland: Trinidad and Tobago. In: Keegan W.F., Hofman C.L. & Rodríguez Ramos R. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology. New York: Oxford University Press. 141-154.
- Hofman C.L., Boomert A. & Mans J.L.J.A. (2011), Complexity, continuity, and reorganization: The case of coastal connections between Northern South America and the Caribbean Basin. In: Aldenderfer M. & Lanata J.L. (Eds.), Oxford handbook of South American archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Hofman C.L., Boomert A., Bright A.J., Hoogland M.L.P., Knippenberg S. & Samson A.V.M. (2011), Ties with the “Homeland”: archipelagic interaction and the enduring role of the South American mainland in the pre-Columbian Lesser Antilles. In: Curet L.A. & Hauser M.W. (Eds.), Ties with the “Homeland”: archipelagic interaction and the enduring role of the South American mainland in the pre-Columbian Lesser Antilles. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
- Hofman C.L., Boomert A., Bright A.J., Hoogland M.L.P. & Knippenberg S. (2009), Ties with the 'Motherland': archipelagic interaction and the enduring role of the South American mainland in the pre-Columbian Lesser Antilles. In: Curet L.A. (Ed.), Islands in the Stream: interisland and continental interaction in the Caribbean. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
- Boomert A. (2009), Una etapa en la colonizacion precolombina del Caribe, XV Congreso Internacional de AHILA, Leiden, agosto 2008. Congreso Internacional de AHILA. Leiden: Universidad de Leiden. 35-46.
- Boomert A. & Rogers C.T. (2007), Troumassoid stone artifacts in Tobago: Rock types and source areas, Proceedings of the Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology. International Association for Caribbean Archaeology. Proceedings of the Congres of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology 284-294.
- Boomert A. & Bright A.J. (2007), Island archaeology: in search of a new horizon, Island Studies Journal 2(1): .
- Boomert A. & Bright A.J. (2007), Island archaeology: in search of a new horizon, Island Studies Journal 2(1): 3-26.
- Hofman C.L., Bright A.J., Boomert A. & Knippenberg S. (2007), Island rhythms. The web of social relationships and interaction networks in the pre-Columbian Lesser Antilles, Latin American Antiquity 18(3): 243-268.
- Boomert A. (2007), Plymouth: a late-prehistoric ceramic complex of Tobago, Leiden Journal of pottery studies 23: .
- Boomert A. (2007), Moviéndose hacia el Caribe. La migraciôn Saladoide y Huecoide, El Caribe arqueologico 10: .
- Boomert A. (2000), Trinidad, Tobago and the lower Gisnoca Interaction Sphere, an archaeological/ethnohistorical study (Dissertatie, Leiden University). Supervisor(s): Louwe Kooijmans L.P. & Versteeg A.H.
- Boomert A., Hofman C.L., Hoogland M.L.P., Arts J., Dorst M., Nieweg D. & Vredenbregt A. (1997), Manzanilla 1 site, Trinidad. Leiden: Faculty of Archaeology.