Roberto Valcarcel Rojas
Guest Staff Member
- Name
- R. Valcarcel Rojas MA
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 1966
- r.valcarcel.rojas@arch.leidenuniv.nl
Roberto Valcárcel Rojas (born in Holguín, Cuba, in 1968) obtained a Bachelors degree in History and a Masters in Cuban and Caribbean Studies (1999) from the Universidad de Oriente. In 2005 he was a Marie Curie fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Doctoral degree in archaeology (Leiden University, 2012; Cum laude) with an investigation about indigenous hispanic interaction in Cuba and in the caribbean region. Has conducted archaeological projects in Cuba as part of local institutions (researcher of the Departamento Centro Oriental de Arqueología, Holguín) or in collaboration with specialist and institutions from United States of America and Europe, including studies in pre-Columbian iconography and indigenous cultural regions, the investigation of early ceramic sites, early colonial interactions and archaeological heritage management. Has participated in fieldwork in Cuba and Dominican Republic with the Caribbean Research Group, Leiden University. From 2005 he is director of archaeological research on behalf of the Departamento Centro Oriental de Arqueología at the site of El Chorro de Maíta. Has participated in archaeometallurgical studies in the Wolfson Labs (IoA-UCL, UK) and in AGLAE, Paris, France. Also in historic archive research in Cuba (ANC) and Spain (AGI). Is one of the El Caribe Arqueológico journal coordinators and member of editorial advisory committee in others publications. In 2005, 2011 and 2013 he obtained the Cuban Academy of Sciences Award for scientific excellence. In 2013 received a prize José Luciano Franco for historical research.
His main research interests are cultural interaction, ceramic analysis, indigenous social organization in the Caribbean and archaeology of the early colonial times in the América´s. From 2013, as postdoctoral researcher in the ERC Synergy-NEXUS 1492 project, he focuses in the study of the Indian (people with indigenous ancestors) as a colonial category and in the evolution and characters of this social component combining archaeological investigation and diverse historical sources.
Guest Staff Member
- Faculteit Archeologie
- World Archaeology
- Caribbean and Amazonia
- Hofman C.L., Valcárcel Rojas R. & Ulloa Hung J. (2020), Colonization, Transformations, and Indigenous Cultural Persistence in the Caribbean. In: Beaule C.D. & Douglas J.G. (Eds.), The Global Spanish Empire: Five Hundred Years of Place Making and Pluralism. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.
- Hofman C.L., Valcárcel Rojas R. & Ulloa Hung J. (2020), Colonization, Transformations, and Cultural Persistence in the Caribbean. In: Beaule C. & Douglass J.G. (Eds.), The Global Spanish Empire: Five Hundred Years of Place Making and Pluralism. New York: SUNY Press.
- Valcárcel Rojas R., Laffoon J.E., Weston D.A., Hoogland M.L.P. & Hofman C.L. (2019), Slavery of Indigenous People in the Caribbean: An Archaeological Perspective, International Journal of Historical Archaeology : .
- Laffoon J.E., Valcarcel Rojas R., Weston D.A. & Hofman C.L. (2016), Isotopic insights into indigenous diets in early colonial Cuba, American Journal of Physical Anthropology 159: 200-200.
- Hofman Corinne, Mol Angus, Hoogland Menno & Valcarcel Rojas Roberto (2014), Stage of encounters: migration, mobility and interaction in the pre-colonial and early colonial Caribbean, World Archaeology 46(4): 590-609.
- Valcarcel Rojas R. (2014), Arqueología en un Ambiente de Ciencia en la Periferia, Ciencia Y Sociedad 39(1): 75-100.
- Perez Iglesias L., Valcarcel Rojas R., Rodriguez Pizonero I. & Campos Suarez A. (2014), Cerdos en espacios indígenas. El Chorro de Maíta. In: Valcarcel Rojas R. & Perez Concepcion H. (Eds.), Indios en Holguín. Holguín: Editorial La Mezquita. 60-77.
- Valcarcel Rojas R., Hoogland M.L.P. & Hofman C.L. (2014), Indios. Arqueología de una Nueva Identidad. In: Valcarcel Rojas R. & Perez Concepcion H. (Eds.), Indios en Holguín. Holguín: Editorial La Mezquita. 20-42.
- Valcarcel Rojas R. & Perez Concepcion H. (2014), Introducción. In: Valcarcel Rojas R. & Perez Concepcion H. (Eds.), Indios en Holguín. Holguín: Editorial La Mezquita. 7-13.
- Ulloa Hung J. & Valcarcel Rojas R. (2014), Practica arqueológica, presencia arcaica e interacción en sociedades indígenas de Cuba. In: Hernandez de Lara O. & Rocchietti A.M. (Eds.), Arqueología precolonial en Cuba y argentina: esbozos desde la periferia. Buenos Aires: Aspha Ediciones y Centro de Investigaciones. 15-38.
- Perez Iglesias L. & Valcarcel Rojas R. (2014), Restos de cerdo en los contextos arqueológicos de El Chorro de Maíta, Holguín, Cuba, Etnobiología 12(2): 39-49.
- Ulloa Hung J. & Valcárcel Rojas R. (2013), Archaeological Practice, Archaic Presence and Interaction in Indigenous Societies in Cuba. In: Keegan W.F., Hofman C.L. & Rodríguez Ramos R. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology. New York: Oxford University Press. 234-249.
- Siegel P.E., Hofman C.L., Bérard B., Murphy R., Ulloa Hung J., Valcárcel Rojas R. & White C. (2013), Confronting Caribbean heritage in an archipelago of diversity: Politics, stakeholders, climate change, natural disasters, tourism and development, Journal of Field Archaeology 38(4): 376-390.
- Valcarcel Rojas R. (2013), Contacto y Colonialismo. Escenarios de interacción hispano-indígena en las Antillas Mayores. In: Hernandez Mora I. (Ed.), Cultura material e Historia. Encuentro arqueológico II. Camagüey: Ediciones El Lugareño. 37-56.
- Valcárcel Rojas R. & Martinón Torres M. (2013), Metals in the Indigenous Societies of the Insular Caribbean. In: Keegan W.F., Hofman C.L. & Rodríguez Ramos R. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology. New York: Oxford University Press. 504-524.
- Laffoon J.E., Valcárcel Rojas R. & Hofman C.L. (2013), Oxygen and Carbon Isotope Analysis of Human Dental Enamel from the Caribbean: implications for investigating individual origins, Archaeometry 55(4): 742-765.
- Valcarcel Rojas R. (22 November 2012), Interacción colonial en un pueblo de indios encomendados: el Chorro de Maíta, Cuba (Dissertatie, Faculty of Archeology, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Hofman C.L., Hoogland M.L.P.