The Journal of Caribbean Archaeology (JCA) was created to provide a refereed publication outlet for archaeological research in the Caribbean and surrounding areas to promote and facilitate communication between investigators working across the broad circum-Caribbean region.

JCA was founded in 1999 and ceased publication in 2022. JCA published original papers dealing with any aspect of archaeology in the Caribbean or surrounding areas. It also published Special Numbers assembled by a guest Editor in consultation with the Editor, and Book Reviews solicited by the Book Review Editor. Articles were written in English, French, or Spanish and abstracts in all three language accompany every article.

Available Issues

VOLUME 22 (2022)

• Goodbye, Au revoir, Adios (William F. Keegan)
• The Distribution of Nonlocal Pottery in Lucayan Archaeological Sites, Bahama Archipelago (William F. Keegan, Lindsay Bloch, Emily Kracht, and Michael Pateman)
• Ship graffiti in the North-Central Caribbean: Geocultural context and heritage Preservation (Michael J. Lace, Reniel Rodríguez Ramos, Tamara González Durán, and Manuel Guivas Gerena)

SPECIAL PUBLICATION NUMBER 5: Yamaye: Jamaican Prehistory and Contact Period – Current Research and Challenges, edited by Lesley-Gail Atkinson Swaby

• Foreword (Lesley-Gail Atkinson Swaby)
• Definition of Montego Bay Style Pottery and its Implications for Jamaican Meillacan Ostionoids (Ivor C. Conolley)
• Archaeology in Paradise (Park), Jamaica: Investigating Jamaica’s Two pre-Columbian Cultures (William F. Keegan)
• Pre-Columbian Human Osteological Remains from Jamaica: A Review (Ana Luisa Santos and Philip Allsworth-Jones).
• Zooarchaeological and Isotopic findings from White Marl, Jamaica: Insights on Indigenous human-animal interactions and evidence for the management of Jamaican hutias (Gene Shev, Romaine Thomas, and Zachary Beier)
• Provenance of Clays in pre-Columbian Ceramics in Jamaica: A Preliminary Assessment (Sherene A. James-Williamson, Simon F. Mitchell, Philip Allsworth-Jones, Jorjan E. Dolphy, Mitko Voutchkov, and Gerald C. Lalor)
• The Structure and Material Assemblage of a Jamaican Taíno Residence at First Spanish Contact (David V. Burley)
• Encomienda in Jamaica: Evidence for Forces Indian Labor in Jamaica 1509-1534 (Robyn P. Woodward)
• Genetic Perspectives on the pre- and Early Contact Histories of Jamaica (Jada Benn Torres and Taiye Winful)
• The Potential Effects of Climate Change on Jamaica’s Pre-Columbian Archaeological Record: Monitor, Assess, Mitigate and Adapt (Andrea Richards)
• Predictive Modeling of Pre-Columbian Sites in Jamaica Using Multi-Criteria Analysis (Sherene A. James-Williamson, Jorjan E. Dolphy, and Lesley-Gail Atkinson Swaby)
• Jamaica’s pre-Columbian Heritage in International Collections (ca. 1680-1970): History, Extent, Relevance (Joanna Ostapkowicz)
• Jamaica’s Pre-Columbian Heritage: The Path to Protection (Debra Kay Palmer)

VOLUME 21 (2021)

• Nuevo Corinto: A Chiefly Village in Northeastern Costa Rica (Silvia Salgado González, John W. Hoopes, Mónica Aguilar Bonilla, and Patricia Fernández Esquivel)

VOLUME 20 (2020)

• Stone Ornaments from Guadeloupe and Martinique Early Period Sites (200 BC – AD 400), Detailed Analysis and Comparison with a Late Ceramic Period Site (AD 750 – 1000) (Alain Queffelec, Pierrick Fouere, Ludovic Bellot-Gurlet, and Benoît Berard)
• Conduits to the Supernatural: Bifurcated Snuff Tubes in the pre-Columbian Caribbean (Joanna Ostapkowicz)
• The Impact of the Macana: A Theoretical Exploration of the Combat Effectiveness of War Clubs in the Guianas and Beyond (DonArp, Jr.)

VOLUME 19 (2019)

• Theodoor de Booy: Caribbean Expeditions and Collections at the National Museum of the American Indian (L. Antonio Curet and Maria Galban)
• About Boxes and Labels: A Periodization of the Amerindian Occupation of the West Indies (Benoît Bérard)
• Archaeology of Piracy Between Caribbean Sea and the North American Coast of 17^th and 18^th Centuries: Shipwrecks, Material Culture and Terrestrial Perspectives (Jean Soulat and John de Bry)

VOLUME 18 (2018)

• A Crab-Shell Dichotomy Encore: Visualizing Saladoid Shell Tools (William F. Keegan, Lisabeth A. Carlson, Kelly M. Delancy and David Hayes)
• Investigating Amerindian Occupations in the Northern Range of Trinidad (Neal H. Lopinot and Jack H. Ray)
• The Rock Art of Bahamian Caves: Multi-Scalar Distribution Patterns and Preservation Management (Michael J. Lace, John E. Mylroie, Joan R. Mylroie and Nancy A. Albury)

VOLUME 17 (2017)

• The Role of Barbuda in the Settlement of the Leeward Islands: Lithic and Shell Analysis Along the Strombus Line Shell Midden (Vincent Rousseau, Allison Bain, Jacques Chabot, Sandrine Grouard, and Sophia Perdikaris)

VOLUME 16 (2016)

• Des Caraïbes à la Métropole: Artisanat et Commerce des Peignes en Écaille de Tortue Marine a l’Epoque Coloniale (Jean Soulat avec la collaboration de Caroline Solazzo)

VOLUME 15 (2015)

• Procurement and Use of Chert from Localized Sources in Trinidad (Jack H. Ray)

SPECIAL PUBLICATION NUMBER 4: New Perspectives on Bahamian Archaeology, edited by Mary Jane Berman (2015)

• Foreword (Michael P. Pateman)
• New Perspectives on Bahamian Archaeology: The Lucayans and Their World (Mary Jane Berman)
• Bahamian Clays and Their Processing into Palmetto Ware Ceramics: An Experimental Archaeology Project (Donald T. Gerace and John Winter)
• The Impressions of Long Bay: Basketry Impressed Ceramics from the Long Bay Site, San Salvador, Bahamas (Charlene Dixon Hutcheson)
• Either a Piece of Domestic Furniture of the Indians or one of Their Gods”: The Study of Lucayan duhos (Joanna Ostapkowicz)
• Spanish-Lucayan Interaction: Continuity of Native Economies in Early Historic Times (Joost Morsink)
• Manioc Dethroned and Maize Triumphant: Interpretations on the Ethnohistory and Archaeology of The Bahamas (With Sundry Notes on Relations of Production) (Alfredo E. Figueredo)
• A Reappraisal Of Prehistoric Human Skeletal Remains From The Bahamas Housed At The Yale Peabody Museum Of Natural History (William C. Schaffer)

VOLUME 14 (2014)

• Astronomy, Landscape, and Ideological Transmissions at the Coastal Maya Site of Cerros, Belize (Jeffrey Vadala, Susan Milbrath)
• Faunal Remains from the Archaic Ceramic Site of Vega del Palmar, Cuba (Roger H. Colten and Brian Worthington)
• The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology (Book Review by L. Antonio Curet)
• Encyclopedia of Caribbean Archaeology (Book Review by Carmen Laguer Díaz)

VOLUME 13 (2013)

• A spatial perspective on artifact assemblages at the Edward Moulton-Barrett House, Falmouth, Jamaica (Kit W. Wesler)
• Equals in death as in life? Mortuary and isotopic variation in late ceramic age Puerto Rico (William J. Pestle)
• Geoarchaeology of the Caves of Barbados, West Indies (Michael J. Lace, John E. Mylroie, Joan R. Mylroie, Patricia N. Kambesis, Hans G. Machel)

VOLUME 12 (2012)

• Protecting Heritage in the Caribbean (Book Review by Lisabeth Carlson)
• Beyond the Blockade. New Currents in Cuban Archaeology (Book Review by Corinne L. Hofman)

VOLUME 11 (2011)

• The provenance of refining pottery in Guadeloupe: indispensable utensils for the sugar industry from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century (Tristan Yvon)

VOLUME 10 (2010)

• Island Shores, Distant Pasts. Archaeological and Biological Approaches to the Pre-Columbian Settlement of the Caribbean (Book review by Joost Morsink)

VOLUME 9 (2010)

• A Troumassoid site at Trois-Rivières, Guadeloupe FWI Funerary practices and house patterns at La Pointe de Grande Anse (Martijn van del Bel and Thomas Romon)
• An Archaeology of Black Markets: Local Ceramics and Economies in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica. (Book review by Christopher T. Espenshade)

SPECIAL PUBLICATION NUMBER 3: Mobility and exchange from a Pan-Caribbean perspective, edited by Corinne L. Hofman and Alistair J. Bright (2010)

• Towards a pan-Caribbean perspective of pre-Colonial mobility and exchange: preface to a special volume of the Journal of Caribbean Archaeology (Corinne L. Hofman and Alistair J. Bright)
• Crossing the Caribbean Sea. Towards a holistic view of pre-Colonial mobility and exchange (Corinne L. Hofman, Alistair J. Bright and Reniel Rodríguez Ramos)
• What is the Caribbean? An archaeological perspective (Reniel Rodríguez Ramos)
• The similarity trap: engineering the greater-Caribbean, a perspective from the Isthmo-Colombian area (Alexander Geurds and Laura Van Broekhoven)
• Something for nothing: exploring the importance of strong reciprocity in the Greater Caribbean (Angus A.A. Mol)
• Ancient Maya canoe navigation and its implications for Classic to Postclassic Maya economy and sea trade: a view from the south coast of Belize (Heather McKillop)
• Crossing the Galleons’ Passage: Amerindian interaction and cultural (dis)unity between Trinidad and Tobago (Arie Boomert)
• Modelling mobility and exchange in pre-Columbian Cuba: GIS led approaches to identifying pathways and reconstructing journeys from the archaeological record (Jago Cooper)
• Boundary-work, reputational Systems, and the delineation of prehistoric insular Caribbean culture history (William F. Keegan)
• Crossing the Caribbean Sea and tracking intellectual history: a discussion (Peter E. Siegel)

VOLUME 8 (2008)

• Maroons and Landscapes (Bo Ejstrud)

SPECIAL PUBLICATION NUMBER 2: An Exploratory Study into the Chemical Characterization of Caribbean Ceramics, edited by Christophe Descantes, Robert J. Speakman, Michael D. Glascock, and Matthew T. Boulanger (2008)

• An Exploratory Study into the Chemical Characterization of Caribbean Ceramics: An Introduction to a Special Volume of the Journal of Caribbean Archaeology in memory of James B. Petersen (Christophe Descantes, Robert J. Speakman, Michael D. Glascock and Matthew T. Boulanger)
• Compositional Studies of Caribbean Ceramics: An Introduction to Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (Christophe Descantes, Robert J. Speakman and Michael D. Glascock)
• Back to the Source: Provenance Areas of Clays and Temper Materials of Pre-Columbian Caribbean Ceramics (A. J. Daan Isendoorn, Corinne L. Hofman and Mathijs Booden)
• Pre-Columbian Pottery in the West Indies: Compositional Change in Context (Peter E. Siegel, Christophe Descantes, Jeffrey R. Fergurson, and Michael D. Glascock)
• Preliminary Interpretations of Ceramic Compositional Analysis from Late Ceramic Age Sites in Anguilla and the Salt River Site in St. Croix (John G. Crock, Birgit F. Morse, James B. Petersen, Christophe Descantes, and Michael Glascock)
• Compositional Analysis of Ceramics from la Aleta, Dominican Republic: Implications for Site Function and Organization (Geoffrey W. Conrad, Charles D. Beeker, John W. Foster, Christophe Descantes and Michael D. Glascock)
• Preliminary Petrographic and Chemical Analysis of Prehistoric Ceramics from Carriacou, West Indies (Scott M. Fitzpatrick, Jennifer A. Carstensen, Kathleen M. Marsaglia, Christophe Descantes, Michael Glascock, Quetta Kaye and Michiel Kappers)
• Compositional Analysis of French Colonial Ceramics: Implications for Understanding Trade and Exchange (Kenneth G. Kelly, Mark W. Hauser, Christophe Descantes and Michael Glascock)
• Ceramic Production and Exchange among Enslaved Africans on St. Kitts, West Indies (Todd M. Ahlman, Gerald F. Schroedl, Ashley H. McKeown, Robert J. Speakman, and Michael D. Glascock)
• Locating Enslaved Craft Production: Chemical Analysis of Eighteenth Century Jamaican Pottery (Mark W. Hauser, Christophe Descantes, and Michael D. Glascock)

VOLUME 7 (2007)

• The Challenge in Locating Maroon Refuge Sites at Maroon Ridge, St. Croix (Holly K. Norton and Christopher T. Espenshade)

VOLUME 6 (2005)

• The Function of the Edge-Ground Cobble Put to the Test: An Initial Assesment (Reniel Rodriguez Ramos)

VOLUME 5 (2004)

• A Radiocarbon Sequence for the Sabazan Site, Carriacou, West Indies (Scott M. Fitzpatrick, Quetta Kaye and Michiel Kappers)

SPECIAL PUBLICATION NUMBER 1: Historical Archaeology in the French Caribbean, edited by Kenneth G. Kelly (2004)

• Historical Archaeology in the French Caribbean: An Introduction to a Special Volume of the Journal of Caribbean Archaeology (Kenneth G. Kelly)
• Fortifications Militaires de Martinique, 1635-1845 (Laurence Verrand)
• Les Fours a Chaux de Martinique (Laurence Verrand and Nathalie Vidal)
• Les Indigoteries de Marie-Galante (Xavier Rousseau and Yolande Vragar)
• Le Site d’Anse Sainte-Marguerite (Guadeloupe, Grande Terre) Presentation d’un Cimetiere d’Epoque Coloniale (Patrice Courtaud and Thomas Romon)
• L’Habitation de Loyola: Un Rare Exemple de Prosperite en Guyane Francaise (Nathalie Croteau)

VOLUME 4 (2003)

• Archaeological Reconnaissance of Anegada, British Virgin Islands (Dave Davis and Kevin Oldfield)
• Plum Piece: Evidence for Archaic Seasonal Occupation on Saba, Northern Lesser Antilles around 3300 BP (Corinne L. Hofman and Menno L.P. Hoogland)

VOLUME 3 (2002)

• Taino Use of Flooded Caverns in the East National Park Region, Dominican Republic (Charles D. Beeker, Geoffrey W. Conrad and John W. Foster)

VOLUME 2 (2001)

• Organic Artifacts from the Manantial de la Aleta, Dominican Republic: Preliminary Observations and Interpretations (Geoffrey W. Conrad, John W. Foster and Charles D. Beeker)

VOLUME 1 (2000)

• A Note from the Editors
• Reconstructing Household Vessel Assemblages and Site Duration at an Early Ostionoid Site From South-Central Puerto Rico (Christopher T. Espenshade)