Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

BSc, MA, PhD (Lond.)

Tel: 0116 252 2155

Email: jc329@le.ac.uk

Jago Cooper studied at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, where he developed his interests in Latin American Archaeology and Human-Environment Dynamics. Jago then worked on rescue excavations in and around London for the Museum of London Archaeology Service and Wessex Archaeology before returning to the Institute of Archaeology UCL to complete his masters and doctoral research.

Over the years Jago has gained a wide range of archaeological and heritage management experience working on projects in Australia, Barbados, Belize, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain and Sri Lanka. Jago joined the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester in 2007 as a Lecturer in Archaeology. In 2008, Jago was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for a three year research project entitled 'The Archaeology of Climate Change in the Caribbean'.

Research

• Research interests
• Publications

Teaching

• AR3066 The Archaeology of Climate Change
• AR1010 Archaeological Research
• AR1011 Fieldschool
• AR1004 World Archaeology BC
• AR1005 World Archaeology AD
• AR2029 Theory and Archaeology
• AR2036 Professional Skills
• PH3082 Sustainable Futures Through Interdisciplinary Science

Selected Recent Publications

Books

Cooper, J. & Sheets, P. (eds). Living with the Dangers of Sudden Environmental Change: Past Lessons for Identifying Hazards, Mitigating Impacts and Avoiding Disasters. University of Colorado Press, Boulder. (Expected Publication July 2011).

Cooper, J. & Valcárcel Rojas, R. The Archaeology of Cuba. Left Coast Press. (Expected publication December 2012).

Recently Published

Cooper J, and Thomas K. 2011. Constructing Caribbean Chronologies: comparative radiocarbon dating of shell and wood artefacts from pre-Columbian sites in Cuba. Archaeometry online: doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2011.00622.

Cooper J, and Boothroyd R. 2011. Living Islands of the Caribbean: A view of relative sea level change from the waters edge. In: Hofman CL, and van Duijvenbode A, editors. Communities in Contact: Essays in archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnography of the Amerindian circum-Caribbean. Leiden: Sidestone Press. p 393-406.

Cooper J. 2011. Cultural Revival for Survival: pre-Columbian lessons for living through the impacts of climate change in the Caribbean. In: Rebovich S, editor. The Proceedings of the XXIII Congress of The International Association for Caribbean Archaeology. English Harbour, Antigua: International Association of Caribbean Archaeology. p 127-137.

Cooper, J. & Peros, M. 2010. The Archaeology of Climate Change in the Caribbean. Journal of Archaeological Science. 1226–1232. 

Cooper, J. 2010. Pre-Columbian Archaeology of Cuba: a study of national site distribution patterns and radiocarbon chronologies. In Island Shores, Distant Pasts: Archaeological and Biological Approaches to the Pre-Columbian Settlement of the Caribbean, edited by S. M. Fitzpatrick and A. H. Ross. University of Florida Press, Gainesville. Chapter 4. 81-107.

Cooper, J. 2010. Modelling Mobility and Exchange in Pre-Columbian Cuba: GIS led approaches to identifying pathways and reconstructing journeys from the archaeological record.  In (eds. Hofman, C. & Bright, A.)  Journal of Caribbean Archaeology. Special Edition 3:122-137.

Cooper, J., Valcárcel Rojas R. and Calvera Rosés J. 2010. Recent Archaeological Fieldwork from the Region around Los Buchillones, an Indigenous Site on the north-central Cuban Coast. In Beyond the Blockade: New Currents in Cuban Archaeology. (eds. Kepecs S, Curet A and de la Rosa G). University of Alabama Press, Alabama. 86-105.

Valcárcel Rojas R., Martínon Torres M., Cooper J. & Rehren, T. 2010. Turey Treasure in the Caribbean. In Beyond the Blockade: New Currents in Cuban Archaeology. (eds. Kepecs S, Curet A and de la Rosa G). University of Alabama Press, Alabama. 106-125.

Cooper, J. 2008. Creating Connections between Caribbean Islands: a case study from northern Cuba. In Comparative Island Archaeologies. (eds. Conolly J and Campbell M). British Archaeological Reports. Chapter 9. 179-190.

Cooper, J., Martínon Torres M. and Valcárcel Rojas R. 2008. American gold and European brass: metal objects and indigenous values in the cemetery of El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba. In (eds. Hofman C, Hoogland M and Van Gijn A) Crossing the Borders: New Methods and Techniques in the Study of Archaeological Materials from the Caribbean. University of Alabama Press, Alabama. 34-42.