This article addresses the female contribution in the development of archaeological science from 1959. The participation and contributions of the first generations of women archaeologists highlight a discourse favorable to the development of archeology in Cuba. A posteriori and from a first approach, the invisibility of the Arawak woman is revealed in the representations that are made of them in current textbooks. For a content analysis, here it is investigated to what extent the constructions of knowledge and interpretations of androcentric biases, assumed, and normalized by women and men who work as archaeologists in the country.
This paper analyzes, quite exhaustively, the pottery of the very important subtaino site of loma de Los Mates (in eastern Cuba) but taking into consideration also the full context of the excavations that were directed and carried out, some time ago, by professor Martinez Arango and the full archaeological staff of the University of Oriente at Santiago de Cuba. Sixteen stratigraphic trenches were dug, and even half a dozen test pits. The presence of Spanish metallic objects, under the 0,50 - 0,75 m level confirms, evidently, that the first period of the village was during the second half of the 15th century, and the second clasped, at least, during the first half of the 16th century. This village seems to have been one of the most densely populated of the Maniabon Hills.
Research into the archeology of the battlefields of the War of the Pacific (1879-1883) began just a few years ago in Peru. In this sense, it is necessary to evaluate and implement a series of methodological procedures focusing on the postulates of the archeology of the conflict and bearing in mind that many of these sites have a monument adjacent to the war event. Therefore, this article analyzes and describes the work system both in the field and in the laboratory, based on the experiences of the excavations of the Alto de la Alianza battlefield (Tacna-1880), the Olaya Martir Battery (Chorrillos 1881), and the prospecting of other scenarios, taking into consideration that each battlefield is unique, and presents its peculiarities. Therefore, the research approach for the battlefields of this war must start from theoretical premises, the examination of material culture in the context of the war context, the appreciation of military strategy and tactics from the cultural landscape, the series of postbattle processes, the transformation of the landscape of the conflict, the role of historical memory, commemoration, and historical documentation.
The purpose of this essay is to identify and to analyze the peninsular-Iberian and American material culture that was used during interactions of the first Columbian voyage, in order to approach the patterns and strategies of exchange used by both groups, either to initiate relationships `friendly' or acquire exotic and/or valuable items from the counterparty. In this sense, the study scenario circumscribes the interactions in the first instance in the archipelago of the Bahamas, followed by the east of Cuba, the north of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. To do this, we start from the study of early news contained in different reports of the Columbian corpus, inserting and extracting the memory of the first trip. In turn, the information will be enriched with the archaeological evidence of European and local origin that entered the exchange network in the early phase of `Contact'.
