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Available Issues of the Journal of Caribbean Archaeology:

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)

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 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 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 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 6 (2005)

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

VOLUME 7 (2007)

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

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 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 10 (2010)

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

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 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)

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