The Proceedings of the Congress were published in two volumes, in 1963 and 1964. The second Congress was organised by Rip and Adelaide Bullen in Barbados in 1967. They also saw that the Congress proceedings were published. It is due to the Bullens' efforts and enthusiam that the Congress remained a reality. Officers were appointed at the second meeting and a trilingual biennial congress was formalised, to be hosted in voluntary rotation by the Historical Societies and Governments of different Caribbean countries.
Papers are present in English, Spanish and French.
Reverend Father Pinchon of Martinique, who emphasised in the 1950's the essential link between Amazonian ethnography and Caribbean archaeology. Jacques Petitjean Roget of Martinique, who brought Caribbean ethnohistory and archaeology up to contemporary international standards of theory and method with his work in the 1960's. Ripley and Adelaide Bullen of the University of Florida, Gainesville, who rapidly added test-pit data from a number of islands in the 1960's, and personally undertook publication of early congress proceedings. The original name of the association was the International Congress for the Study of Pre-Columbian Cultures of the Lesser Antilles. A name change took effect after a decision at the business meeting of the 10th Congress at Martinique in 1983.