Joshua M. Torres

, Male

Gainesville, Florida

United States

Profile Information:

About Me:
Anthropologist and Archaeologist working in Florida and the Circum-Caribbean.
Occupation:
Archaeologist/ PhD Candidate University of Florida
Education:
PhD Candidate (ABD), Anthropology, University of Florida. Tentative graduation 2009.

Master of Arts, Anthropology, University of Colorado. Degree conferred 2001

Thesis Title: Settlement Patterns and Political Geography of the Saladoid and Ostionoid Peoples of South Central Puerto Rico: An Exploration of Social Complexity on an Regional Level

Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology, University of Colorado, cum laude, Degree conferred 1998.
Contact Information:
Department of Anthropology
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
Turlington Hall, Room 1112
PO Box 117305 Gainesville, FL 32611
Research Interests:
My research investigations are currently focused on the prehistoric societies of the Circum-Caribbean—and in particular the Greater Antilles.

My research interests are broad: Social Landscapes, community formation, social identity, the development of political institutions, ideology, symbolism, phenomenology, population and demography, pottery analysis, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis.
Publications:
Curet, L. Antonio and Joshua M. Torres
2008. Plazas, Bateyes and Ceremonial Centers: The Social and Cultural Context of Tibes in the Ancient History of Puerto Rico. In Tibes: El Centro Ceremonial Indigena, edited by L. Antonio Curet. University of Alabama Press.

Torres, Joshua M.
2008. Tibes and the Social Landscape: Integration, Interaction and, the Community. In Tibes: El Centro Ceremonial Indigena, edited by L. Antonio Curet. University of Alabama Press.

Rodriguez-Ramos, Reniel, Torres, Joshua and Jose Oliver
2008. Rethinking Time in Caribbean Archaeology. In Island Shores, Distant Pasts: Archaeological and Biological Approaches to the Pre-Columbian Settlement of the Caribbean, edited by Scott Fitzpatrick. University of Florida Press, Gainesville.

Torres, Joshua M. and Reniel Rodriguez Ramos
2008. The Caribbean: A Continent Divided by Water. In GIS, Remote Sensing and Geophysicalling based on Caribbean Studies, edited by Basil Reid. University of Alabama Press. Tuscaloosa.

2005. Deconstructing the Polity: Communities and Social Landscapes of the Ceramic Age Peoples of South Central Puerto Rico. In Ancient Borinquen: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Puerto Rico, edited by Peter Siegel. University of Alabama Press

Curet, L. Antonio, Torres, J.M. and Rodriguez, M.A.
2004 Political and Social History of Eastern Puerto Rico: The Ceramic Age. In Late Ceramic Age Societies in the Eastern Caribbean. BAR International Series, Paris 14:59-85. Archaeopress, Oxford.
Affiliation:
University of Florida
Link:
http://www.ufl.edu
My Website:
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jtorres/

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  • Steve Lenik

    yeah good to talk to you. I took a look at xmind and it has helped shape some of my ideas in this dissertation chapter I'm working on.
    I'm also trying to write up some of the Carib stuff I did on Dominica a couple years ago, I'll keep you posted on that.

    Jun 5, 2009

  • Theodore R. Morris

    Hi Joshua...you can see my new paintinge my wed site...caribbeanindians.com . I've stopped paainting the taino for now...not sure what I will do with them. So I'm doinng some paintings for my upcoming exhibits at Amelia Island and Naples.Hope alls well in the islands mon. Ted

    Apr 5, 2010

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