(born November 21, 1955, Bartow, Florida) is an American-born archaeologist and anthropologist who has conducted archaeological fieldwork in St.
Martin and Curacao.
Haviser received a BA and a MS from Florida State University, USA, and received a Ph.D in 1987 from the Royal University of Leiden, T for a dissertation= "Amerindian Cultural Geography on Curaçao".
His findings are published internationally and form the basis of our knowledge about the prehistory of these islands.
Haviser is Director of the St.
Maarten Archaeological Center (SIMARC), and formerly was a researcher at Leiden University, the Netherlands and has formerly served as vice president of the International Association of Caribbean Archaeology.