Advancing the Study of Amerindian Ecodynamics in the Caribbean: Current Perspectives

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size

Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge the participants of the 2016 SAA symposium: Nancy Albury, Andrzej Antczak, Marlena Antczak, Mary Jane Berman, Dominique Bonnissent, Lisa Park Boush, Nanny Carder, Roger Colten, Jago Cooper, John Crock, Gareth Davies, Susan deFrance, Wetherbee Dorshow, Geoff DuChemin, Neil Duncan, Nicholas Dunning, Janet Franklin, Perry L. Gnivecki, Sandrine Grouard, Corinne Hofman, Menno Hoogland, John Jones, George Kamenov, John Krigbaum, Erik Kiellmark, Miguel Lentino, Jim Mead, Deborah Pearsall, Lourdes Péres Iglesias, Nathalie Serrand, Peter Siegel, Till Sonnemann, Angel Soto-Centeno, David Steadman, and Brian Worthington. We also thank Tim Mighall for his editorial guidance and support as well as the many peer reviewers who contributed to the quality and success of the issue.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes on contributors

Michelle J. LeFebvre is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida. She is an anthropological and environmental archaeologist and her research focuses on historical ecological patterns of animal exploitation, use, manipulation, and consumption among indigenous and historic groups of the Caribbean and Florida. She is also focused on the mobilization and integration of zooarchaeological records within open biodiversity networks as a mechanism for identifying broad scale anthropogenic impacts on animal biodiversity and distribution.

Christina M. Giovas is an Assistant Professor of Archaeology at Simon Fraser University. Her research focuses on prehistoric fisheries, animal translocations, and the human paleoecology of island and coastal settings, particularly the Caribbean and Oceania. She is Associate Editor for the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology and serves as a Director on the Board of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology.

Jason E. Laffoon is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Free University Amsterdam. His research lies at the intersection of anthropological archaeology, biological anthropology, and archaeological science and focuses on the study of multi-scalar patterns of human and animal mobility, diet and subsistence, and provenance.

ORCID

Michelle J. LeFebvre http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1741-9997

Christina M. Giovas http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4626-113X

Jason E. Laffoon http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8821-805X