UCA faculty news

Dito Morales, assistant professor of art history, recently delivered a paper at the XXII Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, in Kingston, Jamaica. His paper, “Modified Speleothems and Caribbean Rock Art,” focused on prehistoric cave art from Cuba using ethnohistoric documentation of indigenous use and conception of caves in the Greater Antilles. Morales augmented this with information from Mayan traditions on mainland Mesoamerica to deepen the modern understanding of the pre-Columbian nexus of caves, ritual, and art. This research in Cuba and Jamaica was supported in part by a University Research Council grant.