Jay Bryant Haviser, Jr. (born November 21, 1955, Bartow, Florida)[1] is an American-born archaeologist and anthropologist who has conducted archaeological fieldwork in St. Martin and Curacao.[2] Haviser received a BA and a MS from Florida State University, US, 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.[2] Haviser is director of the St. Maarten Archaeological Center (SIMARC), and formerly was a researcher at Leiden University,[3] the Netherlands and has formerly served as vice president of the International Association of Caribbean Archaeology.[2] He lives in St. Martin.