[...]... handles (twins) and paneled motifs of frog legs from a cave in Baracoa, Cuba 156 8.9 Anthropomorphic images of crying/raining 156 8.10 Anthropomorphic images of crying/raining 158 8.11 Images of crying/raining with anthropozoomorphic features 8.12 Crying ¤gure designs 158 160 9.1 Map of Cuba showing the location of the sites discussed 164 9.2 Total number of remains (NISP) and minimum number of individuals... Curriculum for students specializing in archaeology, University of Havana 51 5.1 Table of Cuban Rock Art 82 5.2 Table of early terminological equivalents in Indocuban research 89 9.1 Number of remains (NISP) and minimum number of individuals (MNI) in the studied sites 168 Acknowledgments Both the spirit and the reality of this project correspond to a collaborative team project Many individuals and organizations... downright pettiness, made me worry that permitting hang-ups could prolong the completion of my degree interminably I imagined being left forgotten in a jail cell somewhere, all because of some paperwork peccadillo I had slipped into Cuba during a period when regulations were being loosened for research travel in the late Clinton era The election of George W Bush in 2000, I feared, would have a cooling effect... in Latin America (e.g., Colombia), Cuban archaeology has also evolved in the context of a culture of resistance to U.S hegemony North American readers may ¤nd in the work of Cuban archaeologists the re®ection of a distinct disciplinary culture, as expressed in terminology, expectations, research agendas, and even methodologies As the reviews of Cuban archaeology in this volume illustrate (Dacal Moure... thus formed the idea of a joint Cuban and American session on Cuban archaeology and the possibilities for collaborative work From there, the session at the 2002 Society for American Archaeology meeting came to be As the session co-organizer, I myself adopted the Cuban style of informal networking that demands combining sociability with scholarship The Cuban approach is infectious Through it, I met... transforming it into a publication Ultimately, this book is a gift born out of Cuban hospitality, a welcoming gesture that I hope American scholars will return in kind They may need to adopt the Cuban style of networking through friendship rather than of¤cial channels in order to form meaningful collaborations, but I can assure them that gestures of friendship will be genuinely reciprocated Cuban Archaeology: ... the history of Cuban archaeology, as well as results of recent research This volume shares the aims of the symposium, but it also has the goal of raising awareness among American archaeologists about the current social, political, and academic state of archaeology in Cuba In particular, we want to present a more precise picture of Cuban archaeology since the beginning of the Revolution in order to redress... (Chapter 4), and Linville (Chapter 5), Cuban archaeology has a long scholarly and institutional tradition that dates back to the nineteenth century In addition to trajectories in research and education, Cuba has a long tradition in conservation and cultural resource management, as Dacal Moure and Watters point out (see also Linville, Chapter 5, on the conservation of rock art) In fact, Cuban laws for... mutually interested in improving relationships of collaboration A success story resulting from these efforts was the participation of four Cuban archaeologists, including myself, who represented several generations of professionals at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology held in Denver The focus and scale of representation in this event were a ¤rst for the Society for American Archaeology. .. in the Western Hemisphere in which archaeology is still being conducted by the colonial superpowers As archaeology was institutionalized in Cuba, investigations developed out of the interests of a number of archaeologists who had devoted their spare time to looking for indigenous sites and artifacts or studying colonial architecture The 1960s was an era of collection building Any scienti¤c focus was . DIALOGUES IN CUBAN ARCHAEOLOGY DIALOGUES IN CUBAN ARCHAEOLOGY Edited by L. ANTONIO CURET, SHANNON LEE DAWDY, AND GABINO LA ROSA CORZO THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS Tuscaloosa Copyright © 2005 The. (twins) and paneled motifs of frog legs from a cave in Baracoa, Cuba 156 8.9. Anthropomorphic images of crying/raining 156 8.10. Anthropomorphic images of crying/raining 158 8.11. Images of crying/raining. Licentiate in history curriculum, University of Havana 51 3.2. Curriculum for students specializing in archaeology, University of Havana 51 5.1. Table of Cuban Rock Art 82 5.2. Table of early terminological