Ph.D., Anthropology, Arizona State University, 1992.
M.S., Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, 1985.
B.S., Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, 1982.

Social Stratification and Complexity

Social Stratification and Complexity under what circumstances and for what reason stratified societies developed; how they were organized politically, socially and economically; what political strategies were utilized by the ruling groups to acquire, increase, and maintain their power; and how and why they collapsed.

Antonio Curet has conducted archaeological research in Puerto Rico and Veracruz, Mexico. He has led regional studies in the Valley of Maunabo, Puerto Rico and was involved in different research aspects of the Proyecto Arqueológico La Mixtequilla, Veracruz. He has been involved also in excavations in several sites in Puerto Rico and Arizona. Currently, Curet is conducting excavations in the earliest ceremonial center of the Caribbean, Tibes in southern Puerto Rico. At this site he and Dr. Lee Newsom are studying changes in social organization and economy of domestic groups or households and how they are related to the development of social inequality in ancient Puerto Rico.