Yadira Chinique De Armas

Yadira Chinique De Armas Title: Faculty Member
Phone: 204.988.7630
Office: 4CM18 Lab: 4C35A, 4C36
Building: Centennial Hall
Email: y.chinique@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

Yadira Chinique de Armas (Ph.D. University of Havana) is an Associate Professor in Bioanthropology at the Department of Anthropology, University of Winnipeg, and a Graduate Faculty at the University of Manitoba. Her work combines different lines of evidence, including human skeletal biology, stable isotope analysis, and paleobotany, to understand human adaptations and lifeways. Her current research deals with the biocultural diversity and plasticity of circum-Caribbean indigenous groups, with emphasis in their subsistence strategies, interactions, and mobility. In addition, she is interested in the biological and cultural determinants of breastfeeding and weaning practices in ancient human populations. Her academic background includes a BSc. in Biology (Magna cum laude, University of Havana, 2007), a MSc. in Anthropology (University of Havana, 2009), and a PhD in Biological Sciences (Outstanding research, Committee of Natural Sciences, University of Havana, 2014).

Currently, she is the principal investigator of two SSHRC funded projects: 1) ‘Weaning practices in times of colonialism’ (SSHRC Insight Development Grant) and 2) ‘The dynamic Caribbean: Tracing interactions among precolonial indigenous populations in Cuba’ (SSHRC Insight Grant) and the coordinator of the research program ‘Cuba Aborigen’. She co-directs excavations in three archaeological regions of Cuba: The Canímar Valley in Matanzas, the Reserva de Buenavista in Sancti Spiritus and the Cauto Valley in Granma. In addition, she is a vice-president of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology (IACA). In 2021, she obtained a CFI-JELF grant to develop an Osteoarchaeology Research Facility at the University of Winnipeg.

Chinique de Armas is currently teaching at the Department of Anthropology, University of Winnipeg. Courses include Introductory Biological Anthropology and Archaeology (ANTH-1003), Methods and Theory in Biological Anthropology (ANTH/BANT-2300), Human Osteology (ANTH/BANT-3306), Problems in Biological Anthropology (ANTH/BANT-4305) and Advanced Osteology (ANTH/BANT-4307).

Courses:

ANTH-1003 (3) Introductory Biological Anthropology and Archaeology
ANTH-2300 (3) Method and Theory in Biological Anthropology
ANTH-3306 (3) Human Osteology
ANTH-4305 (3) Problems in Biological Anthropology
ANTH-4307 (3) Advanced Human Osteology

BANT-2300 (3) Method and Theory in Biological Anthropology
BANT-3306 (3) Human Osteology
BANT-4305 (3) Problems in Biological Anthropology
BANT-4307 (3) Advanced Human Osteology

Publications:

Rodríguez Ramos R, González Herrera UM, Chinique de Armas Y*(2023). The earliest people of the insular Caribbean. Elservier: British Encyclopedia, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90799-6.00193-2.

Chinique de Armas Y*, González Herrera UM, Reyes I, Buhay W.M., Skelton S., Rodríguez Suárez R., Roksandic M., Laffoon J. (2022). Multiproxy paleodietary reconstruction using stable isotopes and starch analysis: The case of the archaeological site of Playa del Mango, Granma, Cuba. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 46: 103671. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103671

Chinique de Armas Y*, Mavridou A.M., Garcell J., Hanson K., Laffoon J. (2022). Tracking breastfeeding and weaning practices in ancient populations by combining carbon, nitrogen and oxygen stable isotopes from multiple non-adult tissues. Plos one, 17(2), e0262435.

Chinique de Armas Y., Laffoon J. (2021). Infant and children feeding practices in the precolonial Caribbean: A cross cultural analysis. In: Hoogland M., Weston D., and Chinique de Armas Y. (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in the Caribbean. In AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (Vol. 174, pp. 17-17). 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA: WILEY.

Grau González-Quevedo ER, Hernández Godoy ST, Fernández Ortega R, González Herrera UM, Garcell Domínguez J, Morales Prada A, López Belando AJ, Roksandic M, Chinique de Armas Y*. (2021): The Use of 3D Photogrammetry in the Analysis, Visualisation and Dissemination of the Indigenous Archaeological Heritage of the Greater Antilles. In: Opgenhaffen L, Revello Lami M, Mickleburgh H. (Eds.), Special Issue on Art, Creativity and Automation, Open Archaeology, 7: 435-453.

Kocher A., Papac L., Barquera R., Key F.M., Spyrou M.A., Hübler R., Rohrlach A.B., Aron F., Stahl R., Wissgott A., van Bömmel F., Pfefferkorn M., Mittnik A., Villalba-Mouco V., Neumann G.U., Rivollat M., van de Loosdrecht M.S., Majander K., Tukhbatova R.I., Musralina L., Ghalichi A., Penske A., Sabin S., Michel M., Gretzinger J., Nelson E.A., Ferraz T., Nägele K., Parker C., Keller M., Guevara E.K., Feldman M., Eisenmann S., Skourtanioti E., Giffin K., Gnecchi Ruscone G.A., Friederich S., Schimmenti V., Khartanovich V., Karapetian M.K., Chaplygin M.S., Kufterin V.V., Khokhlov A.A., Chizhevsky A.A., Stashenkov D.A., Kochkina A.F., Tejedor-Rodríguez C., García-Martínez de Lagrán I., Page 6 of 12 Arcusa-Magallón H., Garrido-Pena R., Royo-Guillén J.I., Nováček J., Rottier S., Kacki S., Saintot S., Kaverzneva E., Belinskiy A.B., Velemínský P., Limburský P., Kostka M., Loe L., Popescu E., Clarke R., Lyons A., Mortimer R., Sajantila A., Chinique de Armas Y., et al. (2021). Ten millenia of hepatitis B virus evolution. Science.

González Herrera U.M., Morales Valdés D., Fernández Ortega R., Hernández de la Oliva I., Leal Soler S., Gutiérrez Peña N., Chinique de Armas Y. (2021). Compendio de sitios arqueológicos aborígenes con presencia de restos humanos en Cuba. Buenos Aires: Aspha.

Rodríguez Suarez R., Reyes I., González Herrera U.M., Yero Masdeu J.M., Chinique de Armas Y*. (2020): Manejo de cultivos por grupos de baja escala de producción de alimentos en el suroriente de Cuba: Primer reporte de Capsicum sp. y Manihot esculenta. Cuba Arqueológica. Revista digital de Arqueología de Cuba y el Caribe, 13: 26-38.

Chinique de Armas Y*., González Herrera U.M., Buhay W.M., Yero Masdeu J.M., Burchell M., Crann C., Viera Sanfiel L.M., Grau González-Quevedo E.R., Roksandic M. (2020): Chronology of the archaeological site of Playa del Mango, Rio Cauto, Granma, Cuba. Radiocarbon, 62(5): 1221-1236. DOI: 10.1017/RDC.2020.52

Nägele K., Posth C., Iraeta M., Chinique de Armas Y., Hernández S.T., González U.M., Nieves-Colón M.A., Sandoval-Velasco M., Mylopotamitaki D., Radzeviciute R., Laffoon J., Pestle W.J., Ramos-Madrigal J., Lamnidis T.C., Schaffer W.C., Carr R.S., Day J.S., Arredondo C., Rangel A., Martínez-Fuentes A.J., Crespo-Torres E., Roksandic I., Stone A.C., Lalueza-Fox C., Hoogland M., Roksandic M., Hofman C.L., Krause J., Schroeder H. 2020. Genomic insights into the early peopling of the Caribbean. Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.aba8697

Chinique de Armas Y*., Roksandic M. 2019: Assessing the biological and cultural diversity of Archaic Age populations from Western Cuba. Bioarchaeology in Latin America. In: Ubelaker D., Catalonio E. (Eds.). Smithsonian Institution: 161-171.

González Herrera U.M., Rodríguez Suárez R., Reyes Serrano I., Yero Masdeu J.M., Chinique de Armas Y., Roksandic M. (2019): Discos líticos horadados en contextos arqueológicos aborígenes de Cuba. Aproximación a su función social desde la etnografía y la arqueología. Ciencia y Sociedad, 44 (4): 7-23.

Chinique de Armas Y*., Rodríguez Suárez R., Buhay W.M., Roksandic M. (2019): Subsistence strategies and food consumption patterns of “Archaic” populations from Cuba: From traditional perspectives to current analytical results. In: Hofman C., Antczak A.T. (Eds.), Early Settlers of the Insular Caribbean: Dearchaizing the Archaic. Sidestone Press, Leiden: 107-118.

Chinique de Armas Y*., Pestle W. (2018): Assessing the association between subsistence strategies and the timing of weaning among indigenous archaeological populations of the Caribbean. In: Chinique de Armas Y., Roksandic R. (Eds.). Breastfeeding and Weaning practices in Ancient Populations: A Cross-Cultural View”. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 28 (5): 492-509.

Chinique de Armas Y., Roksandic R. (Eds.)(2018): Breastfeeding and weaning practices in ancient populations: A Cross-Cultural View. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 28 (5): https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2621.

Chinique de Armas Y*., Roksandic M. (2018): Editorials: Breastfeeding and weaning in ancient populations: Challenges and future directions. In: Chinique de Armas Y., Roksandic R. (Eds.). Breastfeeding and Weaning Practices in Ancient Populations: A Cross-Cultural View”. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 28 (5): 477-478.

Smith D., Chinique de Armas Y., Rodríguez Suárez R., Buhay W.M., Roksandic M., Peros M., Roksandic M. (2018): Crossing the subsistence divide: The case of Canímar Abajo and the contemporaneous sites in Cuba and the Caribbean. In: Reid B. (Ed.), The archaeology of Caribbean and circum-Caribbean farmers (5000 BC - AD 1500). Routledge: 98-112.

Chinique de Armas Y*., Roksandic M., Nikitović D., Rodríguez Suárez R., Smith D., García Jordá D., Buhay W.M. (2017): Isotopic reconstruction of the weaning process in the archaeological population of Canímar Abajo, Cuba: A Bayesian probability mixing model approach. PlosOne, 12 (5): DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0176065.

Chinique de Armas Y*., Roksandic M., Rodríguez Suárez R., Smith D., Buhay W.M. (2016): Isotopic evidence of variations in subsistence strategies and food consumption pattern among fisher-gatherer populations from Western Cuba. In: Roksandic I. (Ed.), Cuban Archaeology in the Caribbean. University of Florida Press, Gainesville: 125-146.

Roksandic M., Buhay W.M., Chinique de Armas Y., Rodríguez Suárez R., Peros M., Roksandic I., Mowat S.D., Viera Sanfiel L.M., Arredondo C., Martínez Fuentes A., Smith D. (2015): Radiocarbon and stratigraphic chronology of Canímar Abajo, Matanzas, Cuba. Radiocarbon, 57: 755-763.

Chinique de Armas Y*., Buhay W.M., Rodríguez Suárez R., Bestel S., Smith D., Mowat S.D., Roksandic M. (2015): Starch analysis and isotopic evidence of consumption of cultigens among fisher-gatherers in Cuba: The archaeological site of Canímar Abajo, Matanzas. Journal of Archaeological Science, 58: 121-132.

Chinique de Armas Y*, Buhay W.M., Rodríguez Suárez R., Roksandic M. (2013): Influencia de ablactación en la mortalidad infantil de los subadultos del sitio arqueológico Canímar Abajo, Matanzas, Cuba. Cuba Arqueológica. Revista digital de Arqueología de Cuba y el Caribe, 6: 27-36.

Buhay W.M., Chinique de Armas Y., Rodríguez Suárez R., Arredondo C., Smith D.G., Armstrong S.D., Roksandic M. (2012): A preliminary carbon and nitrogen isotopic investigation of bone collagen from skeletal remains recovered from a pre-Columbian burial site, Matanzas Province, Cuba. Applied Geochemistry, 32: 76-84.

Chinique de Armas Y*., Rodríguez Suárez R. (2012): Cambios en las actividades subsistenciales de los aborígenes del sitio arqueológico de Canímar Abajo, Matanzas, Cuba. Cuba Arqueológica. Revista digital de Arqueología de Cuba y el Caribe, 5: 30-48.

Chinique de Armas Y*, Rodríguez Suárez R., Arredondo C., Collazo O., Boza A., Alleyne S., Álvarez M., Liva M., Jiménez J. (2008): Estudio paleodietario en el sitio arqueológico de Canímar Abajo, Matanzas, Cuba. Boletín Antropológico. Universidad de Los Andes, 26: 131-148.