Dr. Andrzej T. Antczak

Andrzej T. Antczak (1956-2024) was an Associate Professor of Caribbean Archaeology at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, the Netherlands. Since 1982, he co-directed—together with Dr. Marlena 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.

His scholarly interests included the pre-colonial and early colonial archaeology of the Southeastern Caribbean, theory and method in the study of the social past, materiality, non-western ontologies, community archaeology, collection studies, archaeometry, shell middens, and historical ecology.

His books include: Los Idolos de las Islas Prometidas: Arqueología Prehispánica del Archipiélago de Los Roques (with Ma.M. Antczak), Editorial Equinoccio 2006, Los Mensajes Confiados a la Roca (also with Ma.M. Antczak), Editorial Equinoccio 2007, Early Human Impact on Megamolluscs (co-edited with R. Cipriani), Archaeopress 2008, and World Archaeoprimatology: Interconnections of Humans and Nonhuman Primates in the Past (co-edited with Bernardo Urbani and Dionisios Youlatos) Cambridge University Press 2022.