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General Research Interests:
- The Caribbean Region
- Insular Area Maritime Adaptations
- Oceanography and Archaeology
- Island Cultural Ecology
- Costa Rican Archaeological Collections
Research Emphases:
- Saladoid colonization: The onset and attributes of the colonization
of the Lesser Antilles by ceramic-producing Amerindians originating
in South America
- Stone beads: Forms, materials, distribution, and production of prehistoric
stone beads and their social implications (trade, craft specialization,
prestige goods, etc.) in the Caribbean
- Archaeofaunas and biogeography: Implications of vertebrate and invertebrate
remains from archaeological contexts for island biogeographic issues
(extinctions and extirpations, endemism, introduction of alien species,
ranges, etc.)
- Historical archaeology: Main interests include Afro-Caribbean archaeology
and the historic sites of Barbuda
- Costa Rican Collections: Analysis of the archaeological collections,
photographs, and archives assembled by Curator Carl
Vilhelm Hartman (1903-1908).
Selected Publications:
Dacal Moure, Ramón and David R. Watters.
- 2005 Three Stages in the History of Cuban Archaeology. Pp.29-40, in Dialogues
in Cuban Archaeology (L. Antonio Curet, Shannon Dawdy, and Gabina La Rosa Corzo, eds.). Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press.
Gardner, Joan
S., D. R. Watters, and J. A. Brown
- 2001 Conservation
treatment of encrusted sherds. Proceedings of the Eighteenth
International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, vol. 1:75-90.
Guadeloupe, French West Indies.
Petersen, James B., Robert N. Bartone, and David R. Watters
- 1999 Pyroclastic, Storm-Surge and Saladoid Villager Deposits: The
Archaeological and Geological Stratigraphy of the Trants site, Montserrat.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Congress for Caribbean
Archaeology, vol. 2:40-51. Guadeloupe, French West Indies.
Petersen, James B., David R. Watters, and Desmond V. Nicholson
- 1999 Prehistoric basketry from Antigua and Montserrat, Northern
Lesser Antilles, West Indies. Proceedings of the Seventeenth International
Congress for Caribbean Archaeology: 63-76. Rockville Centre, Molloy
College.
- 1999 Continuity and Syncretism in Afro-Caribbean Ceramics from the
northern Lesser Antilles. Pp 157-195, in African Sites Archaeology
in the Caribbean (J. B. Haviser, ed.). Princeton, Markus Wiener.
Pregill, G. K., D. W. Steadman, and D. R. Watters
- 1994 Late Quaternary vertebrate faunas of the Lesser Antilles:
Historical components of Caribbean biogeography. Bulletin of Carnegie
Museum of Natural History No. 30.
Watters, D. R.
- 2005 Deterioration of Historic Structures on Barbuda. Proceedings
of the 20th International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, 2:751-758. Santo
Domingo: Museo del Hombre Dominicano.
- 2003 Preliminary report on the correlation of Archaic-Age localities with a paleoshoreline on Barbuda. Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology 1:102-109. Publications of the Archaeological Museum Aruba, 9.
- 2002 Arqueología historica en las culturalmente diversas islas Caribeñas. Arqueología de Panamá La Vieja 2002:39-62.
- 2002 W. J. Holland's Roles in the 1902 Meetings of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Anthropological
Association. Annals of Carnegie Museum 71:215-232.
- 2002 W. J. Holland's Speech at the International Congress of Americanists,
13th Session, in 1902. Annals of Carnegie Museum 71:131-141.
- 2001 Historical Archaeology in the British Caribbean. In Island
Lives: Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean, edited by Paul
Farnsworth, pp. 82-99. Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press.
- 1999 Composition of the Molluscan Fauna at the Gravenor Bay Shell
Ridge, Barbuda. Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Congress
for Caribbean Archaeology: 181-195. Rockville Centre, Molloy College.
- 1999 Exotic lithics confirm human presence at stranded paleoshoreline,
Barbuda, West Indies. Current Research in the Pleistocene 16:81-83.
- 1998 Maritime adaptive strategies in the Antilles archipelago. Journal
of American Archaeology 15:7-31.
- 1997 Maritime trade in the Prehistoric Eastern Caribbean. In The
Indigenous People of the Caribbean, edited by S. M. Wilson, pp.
89-99. Gainesville: FL: University Press of Florida.
- 1997 Historical documentation and archaeological investigation of
Codrington Castle, Barbuda, West Indies. Annals of Carnegie Museum
66:229-288.
- 1997 Stone beads in the prehistoric Caribbean. Bead Study Trust
Newsletter 29:7-8. [UK].
- 1994 Mortuary patterns at the Harney site slave cemetery, Montserrat,
in Caribbean perspective. Historical Archaeology 23(3):56-73.
- 1994 Archaeology of Trants, Montserrat. Part 1. Field methods and
artifact density distributions. Annals of Carnegie Museum 63:265-295.
Watters, D. R. and Jennifer A. Brown
- 2001 New data from old Caribbean collections at Carnegie Museum
of Natural History. Proceedings of the Eighteenth International
Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, vol. 2:291-303. Guadeloupe,
French West Indies.
Watters, David R. and Regis B. Miller
- 2000 Wood identification
from historic sites: Inferences for colonial trade and modification
of vegetation on Barbuda. Caribbean Journal of Science 26:19-30.
Watters, D. R. and Oscar Fonseca Zamora
- 2005 World’s Fairs and Latin American Archaeology: Costa Rica at the 1892 Madrid Exposition. Bulletin
of the History of Archaeology 15(1):4-11.
- 2004 Becoming a Museum Anthropologist: C. V. Hartman’s International Networking a Century Ago. Museum Anthropology 26(2):63-80.
- 2003 C. V. Hartman's Letter of May 27, 1907 to C. C. Mellor. Annals of Carnegie Museum 72:109-136.
- 2003 W. J. Holland's Instructions to C. V. Hartman for the 1903 Costa Rica Expedition. Annals of Carnegie Museum 72:263-271.
- 2003 Archaeological Landscapes in Costa Rica's Cartago Valley. Antiquity
77(297), Project Gallery URL: http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/watters/watters.html
- 2002 Expeditions, Expositions, Associations, and Museums in the Anthropological Career of C. V. Hartman. Annals of Carnegie Museum 71:261-299.
- 2002 C. V. Hartman and Museum Anthropology a Century Ago. Bulletin of the History of Archaeology 12(2):21-24.
- 2001 C. V. Hartman's Letter of February 20, 1903, to W. J. Holland. Annals of Carnegie Museum 70:263-268.
- 2001 An excavation in Guanacaste province, Costa Rica. Annals of Carnegie Museum 70:237-238.
Watters, D. R. and D. D. Fowler
- 2002 The AAA's Place(s) of Emergence. Anthropology News 43(5):13-14.
Watters, David R. and James B. Petersen
- 1999 Trants, Montserrat: The 1995 Field Season. Proceedings
of the Sixteenth International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology,
vol. 2:27-39. Guadeloupe, French West Indies.
- 1999 Is La Hueca style pottery present at Trants? Pp. 299-301,
in Archaeological Investigations on St. Martin (Lesser Antilles)
(C. L. Hofman and M. Hoogland, eds.). Archaeological Studies Leiden
University 4.
Watters, David R., Edward J. Petuch, and Nathalie Serrand
- 1999 Anomalous Distributions of Vasum globulus: Discordant
Records of an Endemic Gastropod in Archaeological and Modern Contexts.
Caribbean Journal of Science 35:83-92.
Watters, D. R., and R. Scaglion
- 1994 Beads and pendants from Trants, Montserrat: Implications for
the prehistoric lapidary industry of the Caribbean. Annals of Carnegie
Museum 63:215-237
Publications by Cuban scholars:
Watters and Daniel H. Sandweiss have facilitated publications by Cuban
archaeologists and museologists in order to make important scholarly
research in Cuba available to a wider audience. These publications are:
Dacal Moure, Ramón, and Manuel Rivero de la Calle
- 1996 Art and Archaeology of Pre-Columbian Cuba. University
of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh. [Translated by Sandweiss and edited
by Sandweiss and Watters].
Rangel Rivero, Armando
- 1994 Historical aspects of the Montané Anthropological Museum of
the University of Havana. Museum Anthropology 18(1):61-64.
[Edited by Watters and Sandweiss].
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