Andrzej Antczak
Associate Professor
Archaeology
Leiden University
Netherlands
Biography
Ph.D. in Prehistoric Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 1999. He studied Ethnography at Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza in Poznan, Poland and Anthropology at Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas. Currently is professor at the Department of Design, Architecture and Arts at the Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB) in Caracas, Venezuela . Since 1982 he has been co-directing—together with Dr. M. M. Antczak—pioneering archaeological investigations on more than 60 off-shore islands of the Venezuelan Caribbean and since 2006 on the small islands off the eastern coast of Martinique. Also together with Dr. M. M. Antczak he founded and co-directs the Archaeology Research Unit at USB. His scholarly interests include the pre-colonial and historical archaeology of the Caribbean (especially the Southern Caribbean Region), theory and method in the study of the social past, materiality, sacred places, community archaeology, collection studies, archaeometry, shell middens and historical ecology.
Research Interest
Archaeology
Publications
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Antczak M.M. & Atczak A.T. (2012), Vestigios del Pasado: Los Secretos de la Concha Reina., Rio Verde (6): 125-140.
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Antczak A.T., Antczak M.M. & Posada J.M. (2012), El Botuto: Sobreviviendo a la Milenaria Actividad Pesquera., Rio Verde (8): 131-138.
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Guzzo Falci C., Van Gijn A.L., Antczak M.M., Antczak A.T. & Hofman C.L. (2017), Challenges for microwear analysis of figurative shell ornaments from pre-Colonial Venezuela, Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 11: 115-130.
