Konrad A. Antczak is a Venezuelan historical archaeologist (PhD College of William and Mary, 2017). His research focuses on sixteenth- through nineteenth-century commodities, seafaring mobilities, and everyday life in the Southeastern Caribbean and through these topics he explores the itineraries of things, human-thing entanglements, and assemblages of practice in the past. He undertook the ArCarib project as Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Pompeu Fabra University where he is currently a Juan de La Cierva-Incorporación researcher. Konrad is also Historical Archaeologist at the Unidad de Estudios Arqueológicos, Universidad Simón Bolívar, in Caracas, Venezuela.  

He is author of Islands of Salt: Historical Archaeology of Seafarers and Things in the Venezuelan Caribbean, 1624–1880 (Sidestone Press) and is currently editing a novel Spanish- and English-language volume entitled: Venezuelan Historical Archaeology: Current Perspectives on Contact, Colonialism, and Independence. He has also published a number of peer-reviewed articles including: "Assemblages of Practice: A Conceptual Framework for Exploring Human-Thing Relations in Archaeology" (co-authored with Mary C. Beaudry in Archaeological Dialogues, 2019), “Life at the Salty Edge of Empire: The Maritime Cultural Landscape at the Orange Saltpan on Bonaire, 1821–1960” (coauthored with Ruud Stelten in International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2022),, the review “Historical Archaeology in Venezuela” (Post-Medieval Archaeology, 2019), as well as the commentary "The Asymmetries of Disentanglement" (Archaeological Dialogues, 2017).