L. Antonio Curet

L Antonio Curet is an archaeologist who is a curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. Curet then received his Ph.D. in Archaeology from Arizona State University in 1992 under Barbara L Stark.

He started his career in academia as an assistant professor at Gettysburg College from 1993 to 1996. In 2005 he published a book titled Caribbean Paleodemography. In 2009 he edited a book called Tibes: People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos.

In 2013 he began working as a curator at the National Museum of the American Indian on the collections from Latin America and the Caribbean.