PROF. DR. CORINNE L. HOFMAN - Universiteit Leiden

PROF. DR. CORINNE L. HOFMAN
CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL DETAILS
Full Name:
Date of Birth:
Nationality:
Institution:
Prof. dr. Corinne Lisette Hofman (Female)
10‐07‐1959 (Wassenaar, the Netherlands)
Dutch
Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University
Contact Information: Reuvensplaats 3‐4
2311 BE Leiden
0031715272449
c.l.hofman@arch.leidenuniv.nl
EDUCATION
Degrees
PhD, Leiden University, 23‐11‐1993, Pre‐Columbian Caribbean archaeology.
MA, Leiden University, 18‐12‐1987, Archaeology (Pre‐Columbian America).
PhD dissertation
Title of Dissertation:
Supervisors:
'In Search of the Native Population of pre­Columbian Saba (400­1450 A.D).
Part One. Pottery Styles and their Interpretations'
Prof. dr. L.P. Louwe Kooijmans and Prof. dr. M.E.R.G.N. Jansen
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ACADEMIC CAREER
2007‐present
2007‐present
Vice‐dean and Chair of Education, Board Faculty of Archaeology (Leiden
University)
Professor of Caribbean Archaeology (1.0 fte, tenured), at Faculty of
Archaeology, Leiden University, chair holder and coordinator for the
Caribbean in the Research Track Religion and Society. Supervision of 20
members of the Caribbean Research Group.
2006‐2007 Director Graduate School, Faculty of Archaeology (Leiden University).
2002‐2006 Associate Professor (1.0 fte, tenured) Archaeology and Culture History of
Native America, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, and
coordinator for the Caribbean in the Research Track Religion and Society.
1994 'Chargé d'étude' (1.0 fte, fixed term) appointed by the AFAN (now the
Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Preventive INRAP) and
employed by the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles (DRAC) de
Guadeloupe (March‐June 1994).
1992‐2002 Assistant Professor (0.5 fte, tenured), Archaeology and Culture History of
Native America, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.
Aug. 1990‐Feb. 1991
Lecturer (0.5 fte, fixed term) Archaeology and Culture History of Native
America, University of Leiden.
FIVE KEY PUBLICATIONS
Hofman, C.L., A. Bright, A. Boomert, and S. Knippenberg
2007 Island Rhythms. The web of social relationships and interaction networks in the pre‐
Columbian Lesser Antilles. Latin American Antiquity 18(3):243‐268.
Hofman, C.L., A.J. Bright, M.L.P.Hoogland, and W.F. Keegan
2008 Attractive ideas, desirable goods: examining the late Ceramic age relationships between
the Greater and Lesser Antillean societies. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology
3:17‐34.
Hofman, C.L., M.L.P. Hoogland, and A.L. Van Gijn (eds)
2008 Crossing the borders. New methods and techniques in the study of archaeological materials
from the Caribbean. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Hofman, C.L., and A.J. Bright (eds)
2010 Mobility and exchange from a pan­Caribbean perspective. Special Publication number 3.
Journal of Caribbean archaeology (online journal).
Hofman, C.L., and A. van Duijvenbode (eds)
2011 Communities in Contact: Essays in archaeology, ethnohistory & ethnography of the
Amerindian circum­Caribbean. Sidestone Press, Leiden.
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BRIEF SUMMARY OF RESEARCH AND FIELDWORK OVER PAST 10 YEARS
2001 ‐ 2006 Research Director of the excavations of Kelbey's Ridge and Plum Piece, Saba.
2002 ‐ 2004 Co‐director of the St. Lucia archaeological project. This is a multi‐annual project
in cooperation with the Museum of Natural History (Prof. dr. W.F. Keegan),
Gainesville, Florida and the St. Lucia Government.
2002 ASPASIA grant (NWO‐015.001.101) ‘Socio­political complexity in the pre­
Columbian Caribbean: an integral approach to inter­insular and inter­regional
relationships’.
1998‐2003 Project 'Pre­Columbian inter­insular relationships and social organization on the
Lesser Antilles. A multi­dimensional approach.’ (NWO‐360.62.000). Hofman
completed the post‐doc position in 2003, PhD researchers Knippenberg and de
Waal, obtained their doctorate in 2006. The project has been synthesized in a
monograph published by the British Archaeological Series (BAR International) in
Oxford in 2004.
2003 VIDI grant (NWO‐276.62.001) ‘Mobility and exchange. The dynamics of social,
material and ideological relations in the pre­Columbian insular Caribbean’. Several
publications, articles and a monograph have resulted from this project.
2005 Co‐director in the pluri‐annual international project entitled ‘Living and dying in
a Taino community’. This project is being conducted in cooperation with the
Institute of Archaeology, University College London and the Museo del Hombre
Dominicano, Dominican Republic. Part of this project entitled ‘Houses for the
living and the dead’ has been financed by NWO (programmatic research, M.L.P.
Hoogland).
2006 Organizer the symposium “New methods and techniques in the study of
archaeological materials from the Caribbean” at the 71st Society of American
Archaeology (SAA) Meeting in Puerto Rico. The monograph dedicated to this
symposium has been published by the University of Alabama Press in 2008.
2006 Organizer of the symposium “Leiden in the Caribbean” at Leiden University. The
monograph combining the papers of this symposium has been published in the
Journal of Caribbean Archaeology in 2010.
2006 Project for the Leiden University fund ‘Campaign for Leiden’ on the cultural
heritage of the Dutch Caribbean islands. In this context, Hofman was the codirector
of the excavations at Santa Barbara, Curaçao in 2008 and 2009 and
developed heritage projects for the Netherlands Antilles.
2007 VICI grant (NOW‐ 277‐62‐001) ‘Communicating Communities: Unraveling
networks of human mobility and exchange of goods and ideas from a pre­colonial,
pan­Caribbean perspective’. A large number of articles and two edited volumes
have already been published.
2009 ‐ 2010 Co‐director of the rescue excavations at the Lavoutte site on St. Lucia.
2010 Co‐director of the excavation at the Argyle site on St. Vincent.
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2011 Co‐director of the Cul‐de‐Sac archaeological project on St. Eustatius, which took
place in cooperation with SECAR and was funded by NuStar Energy.
INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES
International cooperation
2011 MOU with the government of Saba in cooperation with SECAR and SIMARC.
2010‐present MOU with the National Trust, St. Kitts.
2009‐present MOU with St. Lucia Archaeological and Historical Society.
2007‐present Investigadora Asociada del Museo del Hombre Dominicano, Santo Domingo.
2007‐present Affiliate professor of Archaeology at the Museum of Natural History, Department
of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville.
2006‐present Cooperation with the Departamento Centro Oriental de Arqueología, Holguín,
Cuba.
2006‐present Cooperation with the Department of Anthropology, University La Sapienza, Rome
for the research project in the Dominican Republic.
2005‐present Cooperation with the Museo del Hombre Dominicano, Dominican Republic.
2005‐2008 Cooperation with the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK.
2002‐2004 Cooperation with the Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida and the St.
Lucia Archaeological and Historical Society.
1993‐2000 Cooperation with the Service Régional des Affaires Culturelles of the French
Ministry of Culture on Guadeloupe including also cooperation with the Conseil
Régional de la Guadeloupe for research projects on the French Antilles.
Organisation of international symposia over the past five years
2011 Organizer and chairperson: Leiden in the Caribbean V’ conference: Indigenous heritage of
the Caribbean (financed by NWO VICI).
2010 Organizer and chairperson: EAA conference symposium ‘The archaeology of Netherlands
Antilles and Aruba’ September 2010 (financed by LUF, Campaign for Leiden).
2010 Organizer and chairperson: Leiden in the Caribbean IV symposium: From prehistory to
ethnography in the circum­Caribbean and Amazonia (Leiden March 29‐April 1) (financed
by NWO VICI).
2008 Co‐organizer and chairperson: symposium ‘Mobility and exchange from a pan­Caribbean
perspective’ (SAA Vancouver March 2008, (financed by NWO VIDI).
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2007 Organizer and chairperson of the symposium ‘Leiden in the Caribbean III’ (Leiden April
2007) (financed by the Faculty of Archaeology).
2006 Organizer and chairperson of the symposium ‘Leiden in the Caribbean II’ (Leiden June
2006) (financed by the Faculty of Archaeology).
2006 Co‐organizer and chairperson of the symposium ‘New methods and techniques in the
study of archaeological materials in the Caribbean’ (SAA Puerto Rico, April 2006)
(financed by NWO ASPASIA and VIDI).
Most prominent lectures:
2011 Congreso Antropología y Arqueología Fernando Veloz Maggiolo Calderon, Santo
Domingo organized by the Museo del Hombre Domincano. Viviendo en el reino ¨Taino¨:
La vida en una comunidad de la edad cerámica tardía de la República Dominicana y la
interacción taina con las Antillas Menores.
2010 School for Advanced Research on the Human Experience Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Research Team Short Seminar 2010 organized by Dr. P. Siegel (Monclair University). The
prehistoric archaeology of the Lesser Antilles and Southern Caribbean islands (Aruba,
Curaçao and Bonaire) with particular focus on lifeways and ecological adaptations
2009 Precolumbian Society of Washington DC. Invited lecture. Social Networking across the
Caribbean Sea: Human Mobility and the Exchange of goods and Ideas in the Pre‐
Columbian and Early Colonial period.
2008 Cleveringalecture Singapore, Indianenverhalen over het Azíe van Columbus
2007 72nd Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology Austin Symposium: Island worlds
apart: interactions and remoteness on seas and oceans organized by S. Fitzpatrick and A.
Anderson. Lecture: Insular Caribbean society: a dynamic relationship between people,
goods and ideas during late pre‐colonial times (with Keegan, Hoogland and Boomert)
2006 Cleveringa Lecture, Curaçao. Indiaanse Reizen.
2006 Congreso Antropología y Arqueología Fernando Luna Calderon, Santo Domingo
organized by G. Tavarez Maria Lecture: Investigaciones en el Sito El Cabo, RD (with
Hoogland, Samson and Oliver).
2006 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Puerto Rico. Lectures:
Opening session organized by A. Curet. Lecture: ‘Ties with the 'homeland'. Archipelagic
interaction and the enduring role of the South American mainland in the pre‐Columbian
Caribbean’ (with Hoogland, Boomert, Bright and Knippenberg). Symposium: New
perspectives on the prehistoric settlement of the Caribbean organized by S. Fitzpatrick
and A. Scott. Lecture: ‘Island dynamics: evidence from strontium isotope analysis in the
Lesser Antilles’ (with Hoogland). Symposium: An exploratory study into the chemical
characterization of Caribbean ceramics. In memory of James B. Petersen organized by C.
Descantes. Lecture: ‘Back to the source: provenance areas of clays and temper materials
of pre‐Columbian Caribbean ceramics’ (with Isendoorn and Booden).
2005 KNAW symposium, Amsterdam. ‘De toekomst van de Nederlandse Archeologie’. Lecture:
Heeft de Nederlandse archeologie beoefening een identiteit?
2004 ARCHON symposium Leiden, ‘Rising stars’, Lecture: Mobility and exchange in the pre‐
Columbian insular Caribbean.
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OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Member of committees and boards:
2011 Board member of National Research School ARCHON.
2010‐present Member of the Dutch Network of Women Professors (LNVH).
2009 Member of the Committee Open Competition Humanities (NWO).
2009‐present Member of the Editorial board of the BAR series, Paris monographs in American
Archaeology.
2008‐present Member of the Editorial board of the Journal of Caribbean Archaeology.
2008‐present Member of the Editorial board of El Caribe Arqueológico.
2007‐2010 Board member of the Dutch Network of Women Professors (LNVH).
2006 Seminar on the development of competences of University management skills
(Leergang Bestuurlijke Ontwikkeling), Leiden University.
2005‐present Member of the Middle Management and Expert Group of the Faculty of
Archaeology (Leiden University).
2004‐2007 Member of the Admission Committee for the Graduate School of the Faculty of
Archaeology (Leiden University).
2005 Chair of the Committee for Programmatic Research, NWO (Humanities).
2004‐2008 Member of the Research School CNWS.
2004‐present Member of the Editorial board of the Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies.
2003‐2004 Member of the Committee for Programmatic Research, NWO (Humanities).
2003‐2007 Programme coordinator: Archaeology and Culture History of Native America.
2003‐present Research coordinator: Research Track Native American Religion and Society: The
Caribbean.
2002‐2006 Member of the Examination Committee of the Faculty of Archaeology (Leiden
University).
1999‐2006 Chair of the Educational Board of the Faculty of Archaeology (Leiden University).
1996‐1999 Member of the Educational Board of the Faculty of Archaeology (Leiden
University).
1993‐present Member of the Research School ARCHON.
1992‐present Referee for numerous international journals and book reviews.
1992‐present Referee for numerous international grant proposals.
1992‐present Referee for numerous appointments and tenure positions at international
institutions.
1992‐present Various Academic courses followed through ICLON.
1992‐present Member of the Society for American Archaeology.
1989‐present Member of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology.
PhD committees (national and international)
2011 Alistair Bright: Blood is thicker than water: Inter‐insular relationships in the southern
Lesser Antilles (NWO, ASPASIA). Supervisor.
2010 Alice Samson: A (Re)‐construction of the houses at El Cabo, Dominican Republic (Leiden
University). Supervisor.
2009 Anna Blancaneaux‐Flores: Contribution à l’étude de la disparition de la culture Saladoide
aux Petites Antilles. (Université Antilles‐Guyane), external referee.
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2007 Yvonne Lammers‐Keysers: Tracing traces from present to past: a functional analysis of
pre‐Columbian shell and stone artefacts from Anse à la Gourde and Morel, Guadeloupe
(Leiden University), co‐supervisor.
2007 Reniel Rodríguez Ramos: Puerto Rico precolonial history etched in stone (University of
Florida, Gainesville), member PhD committee.
2006 Sebastiaan Knippenberg: Stone artefact production and exchange among the northern
Lesser Antilles (Leiden University), co‐supervisor.
2006 Maaike de Waal: Pre‐Columbian social organisation and interaction interpreted through
the study of settlement patterns (Leiden University), co‐supervisor.
2005 Gilda Hernández Sanchez: Vasijas para ceremonia (Leiden University), member PhD
committee.
2005 Willy Minkes: Wrap the dead (Leiden University), co-supervisor.
2004 Florine Asselbergs: Conquered conquistadors (Leiden University), member opposition
committee.
2003 Benoît Bérard: Le néolitique Antillais (Paris I, Sorbonne), external referee.
2002 Laura van Broekhoven: Conquistando lo invencible. Hacia una (re)construcción
historiográfica de la región central de Nicaragua (CNWS grant), co‐supervisor.
2001 Sandrine Grouard: Subsistance, systèmes techniques et gestion territoriale en milieu
insulaire Antillais précolombien (Université de Paris X, Nanterre), member PhD
committee.
2001 Nicolás Careta: Fauna Mexica (Leiden University), member opposition committee.
2000 Arie Boomert: Trinidad, Tobago and the Lower Orinoco interaction sphere (Leiden
University), member opposition committee.
1999 Michel Oudijk: Historiography of the Bénizàa: the post‐classic and early colonial periods
(1000‐1600 A.D.) (Leiden University), member opposition committee.
1998 Andrej Anctzak: Late prehistoric economy and society of the islands off the coast of
Venezuela: a contextual interpretation of the non‐ceramic evidence (Institute of
Archaeology, University College London), external referee and member PhD committee.
Supervisor in current PhD research:
2011‐2015 Anne van Duijvenbode: Facing Society (NWO, Promoties in de
Geesteswetenschappen)
2010‐2014 Martijn van den Bel: (INRAP funded)
2009‐2014 Dennis Nieweg: pre‐colonial human exploitation of neotropical fauna in the
circum‐Caribbean region (self funded)
2008‐2012 Hayley Mickleburgh: Teeth as tools (NWO, Toptalent)
2008‐2012 Jason Laffoon: Human mobility through Sr isotopes (NWO, VICI)
2008‐2012 Angus Mol: Social networks in the circum‐Caribbean (NWO, VICI)
2007‐2011 Eva Paulsen: From stories to ceramics: animal imagery on pre‐Columbian
Antillean ceramics in ethnozoological perspective (self funded).
2007‐2011 Jorge Ulloa Hung: The aboriginal interaction between eastern Cuba and
Hispaniola: a comparative study of Meillacoid communities (self funded).
2007‐2011 Roberto Valcárcel Rojas: Indo‐Hispanic interaction in indigenous archaeological
context in the northeast of Cuba (self funded).
2006‐2011 Jimmy Mans: Perishable and non‐perishable material culture in the Caribbean: an
ethnoarchaeological approach (AIO, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University).
2004‐2011 Daan Isendoorn: The identification of the provenance areas of pre‐Columbian
exchange items from the Caribbean (NWO, VIDI).
Responsible for current postdoc research
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2011‐2014 Renzo Duin: The Beauty and the feast (NWO, VENI)
2010‐2011 Niels Groot: Archaeometric analysis of ceramics in the circum‐Caribbean (NWO,
VICI)
2009‐2011 Renzo Duin: Supra‐village organisation the Amazonia (NWO, VICI)
2008‐2012 Sebastiaan Knippenberg The exchange of lithic raw materials in the Antilles
(NWO, VICI)
2008‐2012 Reniel Rodriguez The exchange of lithics in the cicum‐Caribbean (NWO, VICI)
2008‐2011 Alex Geurds Materiality in Caribbean Central America (NWO, VICI)
2005‐2008 Adriana Churampi Ramírez: The Taíno of Higüey, an ethnohistorical perspective
(NWO, programmatic research).
2004‐2008 Arie Boomert: The exchange of materials and the flow of exotics among insular
societies in the pre‐Columbian Caribbean (NWO, VIDI).
2004‐2008 Raphael Panhuysen: Human skeletal remains: clues to burial ritual, living
conditions and mobility (NWO, VIDI).
SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES CARIBBEAN RESEARCH GROUP
2011 NWO Promoties in de Geesteswetenschappen: Facing society (van Duijvenbode)
(200.000 euros).
2010 NWO‐VENI: The beauty and the feast (Duin) (200.000 euros).
2010 BYVANCK FONDS: Plaeobotanical remains in calculus (Mickleburgh) (20.000 euros).
2008 NWO TOPTALENT: Teeth as tools (Mickleburgh) (200.000 euros)
2007 NWO‐VICI: Communicating communities (Hofman) (+ matching 1.760.000 euros).
2007 BYVANCK FONDS: Life histories (Hoogland and Panhuysen) (20.000 euros)
2006 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: GPR in El Cabo (Samson) (15.000 euros).
2006 CAMPAIGN FOR LEIDEN: Antilliaans en Arubaans erfgoed: 4000 jaar
bewoningsgeschiedenis in beeld. (200.000 euros).
2005 BYVANCK FONDS: Back to the source (Daan Isendoorn) (22.000 euros).
2003 NWO‐VIDI: mobility and exchange (Hofman) (+ matching 696.000 euros)
2002 LUF organisation symposium ‘ Late Ceramic Age in the Caribbean’ (3.000 euros).
2002 NWO‐ASPASIA: Socio‐political complexity in the Caribbean (Hofman) (170.000 euros).
1998 NWO‐Programmatic Research: Pre‐Columbian intra‐and inter‐island relationships in the
Lesser Antilles (Hofman, Knippenberg, de Waal) (300.000 euros).
PUBLICATIONS
International refereed journals, book chapters, monographs and edited volumes
Beets, C.J., S.R. Troelstra, P.M. Grootes, M.‐J. Nadeau, K. van der Borg, A.F.M. de Jong, C.L. Hofman,
and M.L.P. Hoogland
2006 Climate and pre‐Columbian settlement at Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe, northeastern
Caribbean. Geoarchaeology 21(3):271‐280.
Booden, M., R. Panhuysen, M.L.P. Hoogland, H. de Jong, G. Davies, and C.L. Hofman
2007 Tracing human mobility with 87 Sr/ 86 Sr at Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe. In: C.L. Hofman,
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M.L.P. Hoogland and A.L. van Gijn (eds), Crossing the borders. New methods and
techniques in the study of archaeological materials in the Caribbean, pp. 214‐225.
University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Delpuech, A., and C.L. Hofman (eds)
2004 Late Ceramic Age Societies in the eastern Caribbean. Paris Monographs in American
Archaeology (E. Taladoire, series editor). BAR International series, Oxford. (329 pp.).
Delpuech, A., and C.L. Hofman
2004 Preface. In: A. Delpuech and C.L. Hofman (eds), Late Ceramic Societies in the eastern
Caribbean, pp. ix‐xv. Paris Monographs in American Archaeology (E. Taladoire, series
editor). BAR International series, Oxford.
Delpuech, A., S. Troelstra, K. Beets, L. Menanteau, D. Imbert, M. Hoogland, and C.L. Hofman
2000 Le Grand Cul de Sac Marin: evolution des milieux et occupations humaines amérindiennes.
Prospection thématique 2000. Nanterre/Maison Renée Genouvès/Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam/Univérsité des Antilles‐Guyane/Leiden University.
Hofman, C.L.
1993 In Search of the Native Population of Precolumbian Saba. Part One. Pottery Styles and
their Interpretations. PhD Dissertation. Leiden University, Leiden.
1999 The pottery. In. C.L. Hofman and M.L.P. Hoogland (eds), Archaeological investigations on
St. Martin, the sites of Anse des Pères, Norman Estate and Hope Estate. With a contribution
to the La Hueca problem, Part three: Hope Estate, Chapter 12, pp. 149‐188. ASLU 4.
Leiden.
2007 The Caribbean: Lesser Antilles. In: D. Pearsall (ed.), Encyclopedia of Archaeology, pp. 143‐
153. Academic Press, New York.
2007 Book review: Ancient Boriquen: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico
edited by P. Siegel. Journal of Anthropological Research 63:119‐120.
2011 Book review: Tibes: People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos edited by L.
Antonio Curet and Lisa M. Stringer. American Anthropologist Volume 113, Issue 1, pages
168–169, March 2011.
Hofman, C.L., A. Boomert, A. J. Bright, M.L.P. Hoogland, and S. Knippenberg
2011 Ties with the 'Motherland': archipelagic interaction and the enduring role of the South
American mainland in the pre‐Columbian Lesser Antilles, in L. Antonio Curet (ed). Islands
in the Stream: Interisland and Continental Interaction in the Caribbean, University of
Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Hofman, C.L., and A.J. Bright (eds)
2010 Mobility and exchange from a pan­Caribbean perspective. Special Publication number 3.
Journal of Caribbean archaeology (online journal) (170 pp.).
Hofman, C.L.,, and A.J. Bright
2004 From Suazoid to folk‐pottery: Pottery traditions in a changing social and cultural
environment on St. Lucia, New West Indian Guide 78(1/2):73‐104.
2007 Ideas atractivas, bienes deseables: influencias Taínas en las Antillas Menores, El Caribe
Arqueologico 10: 31‐42.
2010 Towards a pan‐Caribbean perspective of pre‐colonial mobility and exchange: preface to a
special volume of the journal of Caribbean archaeology. In C.L. Hofman and A.J. Bright
(eds) Mobility and exchange from a pan­Caribbean perspective. Special Publication
number 3. Journal of Caribbean archaeology, Pp. I‐III..
Hofman, C.L., A.J. Bright, A. Boomert, and S. Knippenberg
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2007 Island Rhythms. The web of social relationships and interaction networks in the pre‐
Columbian Lesser Antilles. Latin American Antiquity 18(3):243‐268.
Hofman, C.L., A.J. Bright, and M.L.P. Hoogland
2006 Archipelagic resource mobility. Shedding light on the 3000 years old tropical forest
campsite at Plum Piece, Saba (Northern Lesser Antilles). Journal of Island and Coastal
Archaeology 1(2):145‐164.
Hofman, C.L., A.J. Bright, M.L.P. Hoogland, and W.F. Keegan
2008 Attractive ideas, desirable goods: examining the late Ceramic age relationships between
the Greater and Lesser Antillean societies. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology,
3:17‐34.
Hofman, C.L., A.J. Bright, and R. Rodríguez Ramos
2011 Crossing the Caribbean Sea. Towards a holistic view of pre‐colonial mobility and
exchange. In C.L. Hofman and A.J. Bright (eds) Mobility and exchange from a pan­
Caribbean perspective. Special Publication number 3. Journal of Caribbean archaeology.
Pp.. 1‐18.
Hofman, C.L., and E.B. Carlin
2010 The ever dynamic Caribbean: Exploring new approaches to unraveling social networks
in the pre‐colonial and early colonial periods. In Linguistics and Archaeology in the
Americas: The Historization of language and society, edited by E.B. Carlin and S. van de
Kerke. Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Vol. 2. , pp. 107‐122.
Leiden; Boston: Brill.
Hofman, C.L., A. Delpuech, M.L.P. Hoogland, and M.S. de Waal
2004 Late Ceramic Age Survey of the northeastern Islands of the Guadeloupean Archipelago.
In: A. Delpuech and C.L. Hofman (eds), Late Ceramic Age Societies in the eastern
Caribbean, pp.159‐182. Paris Monographs in American Archaeology (E. Taladoire, series
editor). BAR International series, Oxford.
Hofman, C.L., and A. van Duijvenbode (eds)
2011 Communities in Contact: Essays in archaeology, ethnohistory & ethnography of the
Amerindian circum­Caribbean.. Sidestone Press, Leiden (510 pp.).
Hofman, C.L., and M.L.P. Hoogland (eds)
1999 Archaeological investigations on St. Martin 1993. The sites of Norman Estate, Hope Estate
and Anse des Pères. With a contribution to the La Hueca problem. ASLU 4. Leiden. (329pp).
Hofman, C.L., and M.L.P. Hoogland
1997 De oorspronkelijke bewoners. In: L. Dalhuisen, R. Donk, R. Hoefte and F. Steegh (eds),
Geschiedenis van de Antillen, pp. 33‐40. Walburg Pers, Zutphen.
1999 Introduction. In: C.L. Hofman and M.L.P. Hoogland (eds), Archaeological investigations on
St. Martin 1993. The sites of Norman Estate, Hope Estate and Anse des Pères. With a
contribution to the La Hueca problem, pp. 19‐23. ASLU 4. Leiden.
1999 Synthesis and evaluation. In: C.L. Hofman and M.L.P. Hoogland (eds), Archaeological
investigations on St. Martin 1993. The sites of Norman Estate, Hope Estate and Anse des
Pères. With a contribution to the La Hueca problem, pp. 313‐314. ASLU 4. Leiden.
2003 Plum Piece. Evidence for Archaic seasonal occupation on Saba, northern Lesser Antilles
around 3300 BP. Journal of Caribbean Archaeology 4:12‐27.
2004 Social dynamics and change on the northern Lesser Antilles. In: A. Delpuech and C.L.
Hofman (eds), Late Ceramic Age Societies in the eastern Caribbean, pp. 47‐58. Paris
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Monographs in American Archaeology (E. Taladoire, series editor). BAR International
series, Oxford.
2010 De oorspronkelijke bewoners. In: L. Dalhuisen, R. Donk, R. Hoefte and F. Steegh
(eds),Geschiedenis van de Antillen, pp24‐31. Walburg Pers, Zutphen
2011 The multi‐scales of mobility and exchange in the pre‐colonial circum‐Caribbean. In C.L.
Hofman and A. van Duijvenbode (eds) Communities in contact. Essays in archaeology,
ethnohistory and ethnography of the Amerindian circum‐Caribbean. Sidestone press,
Leiden.
Hofman, C.L., M.L.P. Hoogland, and A. Delpuech
2001 Le site de l'Anse à la Gourde, St. François, Guadeloupe. Fouille programmée pluriannuelle
1995‐2000. Rapport de synthèse. UL/DRAC (401 pp.).
Hofman, C.L., M.L.P. Hoogland, and A.L. van Gijn (eds)
2008 Crossing the borders. New methods and techniques in the study of archaeological materials
from the Caribbean. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. (293 pp.)
Hofman, C.L., M.L.P. Hoogland, and A.L. van Gijn
2008 Crossing disciplinary boundaries and national borders: New methods and techniques in
the study of archaeological materials from the Caribbean. In: C.L. Hofman, M.L.P.
Hoogland and A.L. van Gijn (eds), Crossing the borders. New methods and techniques in the
study of archaeological materials from the Caribbean 1‐20. University of Alabama Press.
Hofman, C.L., M.L.P. Hoogland, A. Samson, and J. Oliver
2006 El Cabo, eastern Dominican Republic. Presentation of the site and preliminary results of
the 2005 campaign. El Caribe Arqueológico 9:95‐106.
Hofman, C.L., M.L.P. Hoogland, and A.V.M. Samson
2006 Investigaciones arqueológicas en El Cabo, oriente de la República Dominicana:
Resultados preliminares de las campañas 2005 y 2006. Boletín del Museo del Hombre
Dominicano.
Hofman, C.L., A.J.D. Isendoorn, and M. Booden
2005 Clays collected. Identification of source areas for clays used in the production of pre‐
Columbian pottery in the northern Lesser Antilles: preliminary results. Leiden Journal of
Pottery Studies 21: 9‐26. Leiden University, Leiden.
Hofman, C.L., A.J.D. Isendoorn, M. Booden, and L. Jacobs
2008 In tuneful threefold. Combining conventional archaeological methods, archaeometric
techniques and ethnoarchaeological research in the study of pre‐colonial pottery of the
Caribbean. In: C.L. Hofman, M.L.P. Hoogland and A.L. van Gijn (eds), Crossing the borders.
New methods and techniques in the study of archaeological materials from the Caribbean,
21‐42. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Hofman, C.L., and L. Jacobs
2000/2001 The dynamics of technology, function and style: a study of Early Ceramic Age
pottery from the Caribbean. Newsletter of the Department of pottery technology 18‐19:7‐
44. Leiden University, Leiden.
2004 Different or alike? A technological comparison between late prehistoric ceramics and
modern day folk pottery from St. Lucia, W.I. Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 20:23‐52.
Leiden University, Leiden.
Hofman, C.L., L. Jacobs, and J. Ulloa Hung
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2007 Juntando las piezas del rompecabezas, dandole sentido a la cronologia ceramica del este
de la Republica Dominicana. El Caribe Arqueologico 10:104‐115.
Hoogland, M.L.P., and C.L. Hofman
1993 Kelbey's Ridge 2, a fourteenth century Taino settlement on Saba, N.A. Analecta
Praehistorica Leidensia 26:163‐181.
1999 Taino expansion towards the Lesser Antilles. The case of Saba. Journal des Américanistes
85:93‐113.
2010 Island dynamics: evidence for mobility and exchange at the site of Anse á la Gourde,
Guadeloupe. In: S. Fitzpatrick and A. Scott (eds), New perspectives in Caribbean
prehistory. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Isendoorn, D., C.L. Hofman, and M. Booden
2008 Back to the source: provenance areas of clays and temper materials of pre‐Columbian
Caribbean ceramics. Special issue nr. 2, Journal of Caribbean Archaeology, 15‐24.
Rodriguez Ramos, R., and C.L. Hofman
2009 Vinculos trans‐oceanicos en el Caribe precolombino. Vinculos (Museo Nacional de Costa
Rica).
Petersen, J.B., C.L. Hofman, and L.A. Curet
2004 Time and culture: chronology and taxonomy in the eastern Caribbean and the Guianas.
In: A. Delpuech and C.L. Hofman (eds), Late Ceramic Age Societies in the eastern
Caribbean, 17‐32. Paris Monographs in American Archaeology (E. Taladoire, series
editor). BAR International series, Oxford.
Van Gijn, A., and C.L. Hofman
2008 Were they used as tools. An exploratory functional study of abraded potsherds from pre‐
Columbian Caribbean sites. Caribbean Journal of Science, vol. 41(1): 21‐35.
Working papers, proceedings and reports
Delpuech, A., C.L. Hofman, and M.L.P. Hoogland
1995 Le site de l'Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe. Rapport de fouille. DRAC/UL (56 pp.).
1996 Le site de l'Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe. Rapport de fouille. DRAC/UL (130 pp.).
1997 Le site de l'Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe. Rapport de fouille. DRAC/UL (12 pp.).
1997 St. François, Anse à la Gourde. Bilan Scientifique, p. 33‐37. Service Régionale des Affaires
Culturelles de la Guadeloupe, DRAC, Guadeloupe,.
1998 Le site de l'Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe. Rapport de fouille. DRAC/UL (40 pp.).
1998 St. François, Anse à la Gourde. Bilan Scientifique, p. 28‐32. Service Régionale des Affaires
Culturelles de la Guadelouipe, DRAC, Guadeloupe.
1999 Le site de l'Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe. Rapport de fouille. DRAC/UL (278 pp.).
1999 St. François, Anse à la Gourde. Bilan Scientifique, p. 28‐31. Service Régionale des Affaires
Culturelles de la Guadeloupe, DRAC, Guadeloupe,
2001 Excavations at the site of Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe. Organization, history and
environmental setting. In: International association for Caribbean archaeology (ed.),
Proceedings of the XVIIIth Congress for Caribbean Archaeology II, pp. 156‐161.
International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, Guadeloupe.
2003 Amerindian settlements and archaeological reality. The case of Grande Terre,
Guadeloupe. In: L. Alofs and R.A.C.F. Dijkhoff (eds), Proceedings of the XIXth Congress for
Caribbean Archaeology II, pp. 99‐108. Publications of the Archaeological Museum Aruba
9, Oranjestad.
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2002 Un village amérindien de l'an 1000 à la Guadeloupe: Anse à la Gourde (Saint‐François),
Culturas Aborigenes del Caribe, Seminario regional. Federacion Internacional de
Sociedades Cientificas, pp. 231‐240. Santo Domingo, 12‐13 Nov. 1998.
2003 Premiers horticulteurs amérindiens dans l'archipel Guadeloupéen: Morel I (Le Moule) et
la question Huecan/Cedrosan Saladoïde. In: A. Delpuech, J.‐P. Giraud and A. Hesse (eds),
Archéologie précolombienne et coloniale des Caraïbes, Actes du 123e Congrès national des
sociétés historiques et scientifiques, Antilles­Guyane, pp. 127‐139. Editions du C.T.H.S.,
Paris.
Hofman, C.L., and M.L.P. Hoogland
1988 Indian Communities during the First European Contacts on Saba. An Archaeological
Investigation. Report, Leiden University, Leiden (20 pp.).
1994 Quatre sites préhistorique tardive en Guadeloupe. Pointe Canot, Pointe Helleux, Grande
Anse et Morne Cybèle. Rapport de fouille, DRAC, Guadeloupe (40 pp.).
Hofman, C.L.
1995 Inferring inter‐insular relationships from pottery style. In: R.E. Alegría and M. Rodríguez
(eds), Proceedings of the XVth International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, pp. 233‐
242. Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1995 Le site de Grande Anse, Terre de Bas, Les Saintes. Rapport de fouille, Ul/DRAC (41 pp.).
1995 Three late prehistoric sites in the periphery of Guadeloupe. The sites of Grande Anse,
Terre de Bas, Les Saintes and Morne Cybèle 1 and 2, La Désirade. In: G. Richard (ed.),
Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology II, pp. 156‐
167. Conseil Régional de la Guadeloupe, Basse‐Terre, Guadeloupe.
2008 Indianenverhalen. Het kwetsbare verleden van de Antillen. Oratie. Universiteit Leiden.
Hofman, C.L., D. Aaij, E. Boomsma, H. Eilders, and D. Isendoorn
2000 Occupations Saladoïdes de l'archipel Guadeloupéen. Rapport de prospection Thématique.
Opération annuelle 1999. UL/DRAC (54 pp.).
Hofman C.L. , and E. Milton Branford
2011 Lavoutte revisited, preliminary results of the 2009 rescue excavations at Cas‐En‐Bas, St.
Lucia. Proceedings of the XXIII rd Congress of the International Association for Caribbean
Archaeology, Antigua.
Hofman, C.L, A. Delpuech, and M.L.P. Hoogland
1999 Archaeological investigations at the site of Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe. Stratigraphy,
ceramic chronology and settlement data. In: International association for Caribbean
archaeology (eds), Proceedings of the XVIIIth Congress for Caribbean Archaeology I, pp.
162‐172. International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, Guadeloupe.
Hofman, C.L., and M.L.P. Hoogland
1991 The Later prehistory of Saba, N.A.: The Settlement Site of Kelbey's Ridge (1300‐1450
A.D.). In: E.N. Ayubi and J.B. Haviser (eds), Proceedings of the XIIIth International
Congress for Caribbean Archaeology I, pp. 477‐92. Reports of the Archaeological‐
Anthropological Institute of the Netherlands Antilles Number 9, Willemstad, Curaçao.
1993 Ceramic Developments on Saba, N.A. Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress for
Caribbean Archaeology, pp. 550‐560. Barbados Museum and Historical Society, Barbados.
2010 Rescue excavations at Lavoutte, Cas‐en‐Bas, St. Lucia. Interim report, Leiden University,
Leiden.
Hofman C.L., M.L.P. Hoogland, and A. Boomert
2011 Excavations at the site of Argyle, St. Vincent. Interim report. Leiden University, Leiden.
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Hofman, C.L., M.L.P. Hoogland, and A. Delpuech
2000 St. François, Anse à la Gourde. Bilan Scientifique, pp. 32‐36. Service Régionale des Affaires
Culturelles de la Guadeloupe, DRAC, Guadeloupe.
2002 Les occupations amérindiennes de l'Anse à la Gourde (Grande‐Terre de Guadeloupe):
400 à 1400 de notre ère. In: A. Delpuech, J.‐P. Giraud, A. Hesse (eds) Archéologie
précolombienne et coloniale des Caraïbes, Actes du 123e Congrès national des sociétés
historiques et scientifiques, Antilles­Guyane, pp. 141‐149. Editions du C.T.H.S., Paris.
2003 Social organization at the Troumassoid settlement. The case of Anse à la Gourde,
Guadeloupe. In: L. Alofs and R.A.C.F. Dijkhoff (eds), Proceedings of the XIXth Congress for
Caribbean Archaeology I, pp. 124‐131. Publications of the Archaeological Museum Aruba
9, Aruba.
Hofman, C.L., M.L.P. Hoogland, and W.F. Keegan
2004 Archaeological reconnaissance at St. Lucia, West Indies. Preliminary report. Report
prepared for the Archaeological and Historical Society, St. Lucia. Florida Museum of
Natural History and Leiden University, Gainesville / Leiden (65 pp.).
http://www.archeologie.leidenuniv.nl/content_docs/amerindian/st.luciareport2004we
bversie.pdf
Hofman, C.L., M.L.P. Hoogland, and H.M. van der Klift
1987 An Archaeological Investigation of Spring Bay, Saba. Fieldwork report. Interim report,
University of Leiden, Leiden (141 pp.).
Hofman, C.L., M.L.P. Hoogland, and J. Oliver
2004 A first reconnaissance of archaeological sites in the Dominican Republic 13­27 July 2004.
(30 pp.).
Hoogland, M.L.P. and C.L. Hofman
2011 Archaeological investigations at Spanish Water, Curacao. Proceedings of the XXIII rd
International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, Antigua.
Keegan, W.F., C.L. Hofman, and M.L.P. Hoogland
2002 Archaeological reconnaissance at St. Lucia, West Indies. Preliminary report. Report
prepared for the Archaeological and Historical Society, St. Lucia. Florida Museum of
Natural History and Leiden University, Gainesville / Leiden (20 pp.).
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/anthro/caribarch/slucia.htm
2003 Archaeological reconnaissance at St.Lucia, West Indies. Preliminary report. Report
prepared for the Archaeological and Historical Society, St. Lucia. Florida Museum of
Natural History and Leiden University, Gainesville / Leiden (34 pp.).
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/anthro/caribarch/slucia.htm
2007 St. Lucia Archaeological research project: an update. In: B. Reid, H. Petitjean Roget and A.
Curet (eds), Proceedings of the XXIst Congress for Caribbean Archaeology (1), pp. 128‐
140. University of the West Indies, School of Continuing Studies, St. Augustine.
Articles in press
Hofman C.L.
in press Archaeometry. Encyclopedia of Caribbean archaeology, edited by B. Reid and G.
Gilmore (eds) University of Florida press (in press since 2009)
in press The Saladoid. Encyclopedia of Caribbean archaeology, edited by B. Reid and G.
Gilmore (eds) University of Florida press (in press since 2009)
in press St. Lucia Encyclopedia of Caribbean archaeology, edited by B. Reid and G. Gilmore
(eds) University of Florida press (in press since 2009)
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Hofman, C.L., A. Boomert, and J. Mans
in press Complexity, continuity and reorganization. The case of coastal connections
between Northern South America and the Caribbean Basin. In Handbook of South
American Archaeology edited by M. Aldenderlfer and J. L. Lanata. Oxford
University Press (in press since 2010).
Hofman C.L., and M.L.P. Hoogland
in press Saba. Encyclopedia of Caribbean archaeology, edited by B. Reid and G. Gilmore
(eds) University of Florida press (in press since 2009)
Articles in preparation
Hofman, C.L.
in prep.
in prep.
The post Saladoid in the Lesser Antilles. To be published In W. F. Keegan, C.L.
Hofman and R. Rodriguez Ramos (eds) Oxford Handbook of Caribbean
Archaeology, Oxford University press.
Islanders on the move: human mobility and the exchange of goods and ideas in
the pre‐colonial Lesser Antilles. An introduction. To be published in C.L. Hofman
(ed.) Islanders on the move. University of Alabama press, Tuscaloosa..
Hofman, C.L., and M.L.P. Hoogland
in prep.
The prehistoric archaeology of the Lesser Antilles: a current state of affairs. to be
published in C.L. Hofman (ed.) Islanders on the move. University of Alabama
press, Tuscaloosa..
Hofman, C.L., M.L.P. Hoogland, and R. Duin
in prep
Rituals for the dead: socializing with the ancestors in the pre‐colonial Caribbean.
Latin American Antiquity.
Hofman C.L., M.L.P. Hoogland, J. Laffoon, B. de Vos, and H. Mickleburgh
in prep.
Inter‐community mobility in the late Ceramic Age Lesser Antilles: life histories of
the non‐local individuals at the Anse à la Gourde settlement, Guadeloupe. To be
published in C.L. Hofman (ed.) Islanders on the move. University of Alabama
press, Tuscaloosa.
Hofman C.L., M.L.P. Hoogland, and B. Roux
in prep. (Re)constructing the Táboui in the Island Carib village of Argyle, St. Vincent In:
Hofman, C.L. and A. A.A. Mol (eds) Indigenous heritage of the Caribbean,
Sidestone Press, Leiden.
Hofman, C.L., M.L.P. Hoogland, D. Weston, J. Laffoon, and H.M. Mickleburgh
in prep Rescuing the dead. Settlement and mortuary data from rescue excavations at the
pre‐colonial site of Lavoutte, Saint Lucia. To be published in the Journal of Field
Archaeology.
Hofman, C.L., A.A.A. Mol, R. Rodríguez Ramos, and S. Knippenberg
in prep. Networks set in stone. To be published in the Proceedings of the XXIV th
International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, Martinique.
in prep. Feasting for flint: Competition and emulation in the early pre‐colonial
northeastern Caribbean (4000 BP ‐ 1700 BP). To be published in C.L. Hofman
(ed.) Islanders on the move. University of Alabama press, Tuscaloosa.
Hoogland, M.L.P., C.L. Hofman, and A. Boomert
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in prep.
Argyle, St. Vincent: new insights on the Island Carib occupation of the Lesser
Antilles. To be published in the Proceedings of the XXIV th International Congress
for Caribbean Archaeology, Martinique.
Hoogland, M.L.P., C.L. Hofman, J. Laffoon, H. Mickleburgh, and D. Weston
in prep.
A failed outpost in the periphery of the Greater Antillean chiefdom societies: the
case of Kelbey’s Ridge 2, Saba (AD 1200‐1350). To be published in C.L. Hofman
(ed.) Islanders on the move. University of Alabama press, Tuscaloosa.
Monographs in preparation
Delpuech, A., C.L. Hofman, and M.L.P. Hoogland (eds)
Morel revisited. Archaeological investigations at the site of Morel, Grande Terre,
Guadeloupe. BAR International Series, Oxford.
Hofman, C.L.
Islanders on the move .Mobility and exchange. Dynamics of social, material and ideological
relations in the pre­Columbian insular Caribbean. University of Alabama Press.
Hofman C.L., M.L.P. Hoogland, and A. Delpuech (eds)
The site of Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe. Sidestone press, Leiden.
Hofman, C.L., and A.A.A. Mol
Indigenous heritage of the Caribbean. Sidestone Press, Leiden.
Hoogland, M.L.P., C.L. Hofman, and A.V.M. Samson
Houses for the living and the dead. University of Alabama press.
Keegan, W.F., and C.L. Hofman
Through the kaleidoscope: the pre­Columbian peoples of the West Indies. University Press
of Florida, Gainesville.
Keegan, W.F., C.L. Hofman, and R. Rodríguez Ramos (eds)
Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Professional presentations, publications and products
2011 (Feb.) Dieslezing Universiteit Leiden: De Antillen in beweging 6000 BP‐2010.
2011 (Jan.) Divers daily newspaper articles and radio St. Kitts
2010 (June) Diverse newspaper articles (St. Vincentian), television and magazines St.Vincent
2010 (Feb.) HOEZO radio, 1.
2009 (Oct.) The Archaeology of the Netherlands Antilles, Antillenhuis.
2009 (Oct.) Indianenverhalen, Festival Station Leiden.
2008 (May) Echte Indianenverhalen. Elsevier nr. 19, 10 mei 2008, pp. 72‐73.
2008 Cleveringalezing Singapore: Het Azië van Columbus.
2008 (Dec.) CASA LUNA, radio 1.
2008 (Dec.) WERELDOMROEP radio.
2007 Kwetsbaar bodemarchief. Het indiaanse verleden van de Antillen. Monumenten.
Jaargang 28, nr. 11, pp. 10‐13.
2006 Cleveringalezing Curaçao: Indiaanse Reizen.
2006 Prehistoric Saba. A view from the past. A popular scientific documentary on the
work of Hofman and Hoogland on the island of Saba, Netherlands Antilles edited
by Jimmy Mans.
2006 Indiaanse Reizen. Amigoe December 2006.
2005 DVD Jewels of Leiden Science and Scholarship.
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2004 Encounters with the first inhabitants of Iouanalao. St. Lucia Visions, volume 14
2004, pp. 48‐53.
2003 Eenzijdig dieet voor kanobouwers, Natuur en Techniek, July/August 2003, pp.
18‐19.
2001 Les Amérindiens de Guadeloupe, Archeologia, March 2001, pp. 18‐29.
2000 Guadeloupe, 400 jaar na Christus, National Geographic, (Dutch edition)
December 2000, pp. 57‐59.
2000 Guadeloupe, 400 ans après J.C., National Geographic, (French edition).
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