Dr. Alice Samson
- lecturer and researcher in Caribbean archaeology
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 2388 |
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| E-Mail: | a.v.m.samson@arch.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit Archeologie, Caribbean and Amazonia |
| Office Address: |
WSD Reuvensplaats 3-4 2311 BE Leiden Room number 114 |
Alice V.M. Samson (1977) is lecturer and researcher in Caribbean archaeology. She read Modern and Medieval languages at Clare College, Cambridge (BA hons, 2001). In 2005 she moved to Leiden to complete an MA in Northwest European prehistory (cum laude) and from 2005 to 2009 she became immersed in the more tropical setting of the Caribbean as a member of the research project Houses for the Living and the Dead (PI Menno L.P. Hoogland, NWO-funded).
The archaeological household and community were the topics of this research. Alice collected data for her dissertation, in collaboration with the Museo del Hombre Dominicano, with a field team from Leiden University, through archaeological fieldwork on the site of El Cabo, a precolumbian and contact-period settlement on the east coast of the Dominican Republic. Additionally she was PI for two seasons of geophysical prospection in El Cabo in collaboration with Dr Branko Mušič (Department of Archaeology, Ljubljana University, National Geographic Society-funded). The interpretation and presentation of settlement features in El Cabo formed the core of Alice's dissertation (PhD April 2010), which provides an archaeological definition of the precolumbian indigenous (“Taíno”) house and narrates 700 years of village history up to and after European colonisation.
Alice has published on ongoing fieldwork, Caribbean household and settlement archaeology and iconography in the Greater Antilles, as well as on the European Bronze Age. Her current research interests include household and social archaeology in the Caribbean and surrounding area, the material culture heritage of the Dominican Republic and Haiti and the inter-disciplinary application of bio-psychological approaches in archaeology (in collaboration with Dr Bridget Waller, Department of Psychology, Portsmouth University).
2011
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Samson, A.V.M. (2011)
Book review of: Rethinking Puerto Rican precolonial history by R. Rodríguez Ramos. [Bespreking van: Rethinking Puerto Rican precolonial history]. In: Antiquity, 85, pp. 685-686.
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Samson, A.V.M. (2011)
House trajectories in El Cabo, Dominican Republic: The building blocks of Late Ceramic Age culture. In Rebovich, S. A. (Ed.) Proceedings of the XXIII Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology (pp. 104-126). Antigua: Dockyard Museum, English Harbour.
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Samson, A.V.M. (2011)
The most beautiful house in the world: The archaeology of aesthetics in eastern Hispaniola. In Hofman, C.L. & Duijvenbode, A., van (Eds.) Communities in Contact. Essays in archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnography of the Amerindian circum-CaribbeanLeiden: Sidestone Press.
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Hofman, C.L. & Boomert, A. & Bright, A.J. & Hoogland, M.L.P. & Knippenberg, S. & Samson, A.V.M. (2011)
Ties with the “Homeland”: archipelagic interaction and the enduring role of the South American mainland in the pre-Columbian Lesser Antilles. In: Curet, L. A. & Hauser, M.W. (Eds.), Ties with the “Homeland”: archipelagic interaction and the enduring role of the South American mainland in the pre-Columbian Lesser AntillesTuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
2010
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Samson, A.V.M. & Waller, B.M. (2010)
Not growling but smiling: New interpretations of the bared-teeth motif in the pre-Columbian Caribbean. Current Anthropology, 51 (3), pp. 425-433.
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Medica, David & Mušič, Branko & Samson, A.V.M. (2010)
Recognition and interpretation of shallow microrelief features in limestone bedrock using Ground penetrating radar method, the case of El Cabo, Dominican Republic. Arheo, 27, pp. 15-43.
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Samson, A.V.M. (2010)
Renewing the house: Trajectories of social life in the yucayeque (community) of El Cabo, Higüey, Dominican Republic, AD 800 to 1504. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
(Book (monograph))
2008
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Hofman, C.L. & Hoogland, M.L.P. & Samson, A.V.M. & Oliver, J. (2008)
Investigaciones arquelógicas en El Cabo, oriente de la República Dominicana: resultados preliminares de las campanas 2005 y 2006. Boletín del Museo del Hombre Dominicano, pp. 289-307.
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Hofman, C.L. & Hoogland, M.L.P. & Samson, A.V.M. (2008)
Investigaciones arqueológicos en El Cabo, oriente de la República Dominicana: resultados preliminares de las campañas 2005 y 2006. Boletín del Museo del Hombre Dominicano
(Article)
2007
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Samson, A.V.M. (2007)
El Cabo. Huellas de estructuras asentacionales. El Caribe arqueologico, 10
(Article)
2006
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Hofman, C.L. & Hoogland, M.L.P. & Samson, A.V.M. & Oliver, J.R. (2006)
El Cabo, eastern Dominican Republic. Presentation of the site and preliminary results of the 2005 campaign. El Caribe arqueologico, 9, pp. 95-106.
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Hofman, C.L. & Hoogland, M.L.P. & Oliver, J.R. & Samson, A.V.M. (2006)
El Cabo, oriente de la Rep. Dom. Presencion del sitio y resultados preliminares de la campana 2005. El Caribe arqueologico, 9/2006, pp. 95-106.
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Samson, A.V.M. (2006)
Offshore finds from the Bronze Age in north-west Europe: The shipwreck scenario revisited. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 25 (4), pp. 371-388.
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