Reniel Rodríguez Ramos
Biographic Data
| ID | 140765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reniel Rodríguez Ramos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reniel Rodríguez |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramos |
| SIGNATURE | RAMOS R R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Puerto Rico at Utuado |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2707-6841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Accessibility and Exchange in Boriquén
Local and long-distance ceramic exchange in early Puerto Rico
Ship Graffiti on the Islands of the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos and Puerto Rico
Current Perspectives in the Precolonial Archaeology of Puerto Rico
During the past two decades, many of the traditional conceptions about the configuration of the cultural landscape of precolonial Puerto Rico have been critically addressed from both political and disciplinary perspectives. Colonialist undercurrents embedded in the traditional models used to structure the indigenous history of the island have come into question and some of the fundamental ideas about the social and cultural makeup of the human co…
Long-distance exchange in the precolonial Circum-Caribbean
The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology
In one sense, the Caribbean islands were isolated from their neighbors and the surrounding mainland by water, but the degree of isolation was negotiated by cultural potentials. This volume on Caribbean archaeology focuses on the cultural construction of insularity. In this regard, the Caribbean islands can shed their insular past and demonstrate their significant role for understanding world history. The articles in this volume are based on studi…
Isthmo–Antillean Engagements
This title provides an overview of archaeological investigations in the insular Caribbean, understood here as the islands whose shores surround the Caribbean Sea and the islands of the Bahama Archipelago. The handbook brings together examples of the best research conducted by scholars from across the globe to address the complexity of the Caribbean past
Pre-Columbian jadeitite artifacts from the Golden Rock Site, St. Eustatius, Lesser Antilles, with special reference to jadeitite artifacts from Elliot's, Antigua
New Questions and Old Paradigms
One of the central goals of archaeology is the definition of regional cultural succession. Since at least the 1960s, archaeology has purported to have moved beyond the strictures of Culture History, and yet the constructs of that paradigm (styles, periods, cultures) continue to be used routinely. This work aims to show that by doing so, one is still implicitly subscribing to that theoretical perspective"s assumptions and biases. In the end, this …
Indigenous Languages of the Caribbean
This title provides an overview of archaeological investigations in the insular Caribbean, understood here as the islands whose shores surround the Caribbean Sea and the islands of the Bahama Archipelago. The handbook brings together examples of the best research conducted by scholars from across the globe to address the complexity of the Caribbean past
Rethinking Puerto Rican Precolonial History
The history of Puerto Rico has usually been envisioned as a sequence of colonizations-various indigenous peoples from Archaic through Taino were successively invaded, assimilated, or eliminated, followed by the Spanish entrada, which was then modified by African traditions and, since 1898, by the United States. The truth is more complex, but in many ways Puerto Rico remains one of the last colonies in the world. This volume focuses on the success…
The Pre-Arawak Pottery Horizon in the Antilles
Pottery in contexts that predate the entrance of Arawak societies to the Antilles (500 B.C.) by at least one millennium demand a reassessment of the introduction of this technology to the islands. We summarize the available evidence of what we term the Pre-Arawak Pottery horizon and address the social implications of the introduction of such technology to the insular Caribbean, based on the role of pots as tools. We show that this early pottery i…
From the Guanahatabey to the Archaic of Puerto Rico
Some of the early Spanish chronicles make reference to the presence of cave dwellers inhabiting the westernmost section of Cuba as well as the Guacayarima Peninsula in southwestern Haiti. These people, who supposedly lived marginal to Taino society, were named the Guanahatabey or Ciboney culture. The different descriptions of those groups shared elements that were later adopted uncritically in the construction of the social and cultural aspects o…
Depositional history and evolution of the Paso del Indio site, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
Potshards discovered during excavation of bridge pilasters for a major expressway over the Rio Indio floodplain, a stream incised within the karsts of north‐central Puerto Rico, required large‐scale archaeological excavation. Five‐meter‐deep bridge pilaster excavations in the alluvial valley provide a 4500‐year history of deposition. Stratigraphic analysis of the exposed pilaster walls in combination with textural and organic carbon analyses of s…
Pre-Columbian jadeitite artifacts from the Golden Rock Site, St. Eustatius, Lesser Antilles, with special reference to jadeitite artifacts from Elliot's, Antigua
The Pre-Arawak Pottery Horizon in the Antilles
Pottery in contexts that predate the entrance of Arawak societies to the Antilles (500 B.C.) by at least one millennium demand a reassessment of the introduction of this technology to the islands. We summarize the available evidence of what we term the Pre-Arawak Pottery horizon and address the social implications of the introduction of such technology to the insular Caribbean, based on the role of pots as tools. We show that this early pottery i…
New Questions and Old Paradigms
One of the central goals of archaeology is the definition of regional cultural succession. Since at least the 1960s, archaeology has purported to have moved beyond the strictures of Culture History, and yet the constructs of that paradigm (styles, periods, cultures) continue to be used routinely. This work aims to show that by doing so, one is still implicitly subscribing to that theoretical perspective"s assumptions and biases. In the end, this …
From the Guanahatabey to the Archaic of Puerto Rico
Some of the early Spanish chronicles make reference to the presence of cave dwellers inhabiting the westernmost section of Cuba as well as the Guacayarima Peninsula in southwestern Haiti. These people, who supposedly lived marginal to Taino society, were named the Guanahatabey or Ciboney culture. The different descriptions of those groups shared elements that were later adopted uncritically in the construction of the social and cultural aspects o…
Ship Graffiti on the Islands of the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos and Puerto Rico
Current Perspectives in the Precolonial Archaeology of Puerto Rico
During the past two decades, many of the traditional conceptions about the configuration of the cultural landscape of precolonial Puerto Rico have been critically addressed from both political and disciplinary perspectives. Colonialist undercurrents embedded in the traditional models used to structure the indigenous history of the island have come into question and some of the fundamental ideas about the social and cultural makeup of the human co…
Depositional history and evolution of the Paso del Indio site, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
Potshards discovered during excavation of bridge pilasters for a major expressway over the Rio Indio floodplain, a stream incised within the karsts of north‐central Puerto Rico, required large‐scale archaeological excavation. Five‐meter‐deep bridge pilaster excavations in the alluvial valley provide a 4500‐year history of deposition. Stratigraphic analysis of the exposed pilaster walls in combination with textural and organic carbon analyses of s…
Depositional history and evolution of the Paso del Indio site, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
Potshards discovered during excavation of bridge pilasters for a major expressway over the Rio Indio floodplain, a stream incised within the karsts of north‐central Puerto Rico, required large‐scale archaeological excavation. Five‐meter‐deep bridge pilaster excavations in the alluvial valley provide a 4500‐year history of deposition. Stratigraphic analysis of the exposed pilaster walls in combination with textural and organic carbon analyses of s…
The Pre-Arawak Pottery Horizon in the Antilles
Pottery in contexts that predate the entrance of Arawak societies to the Antilles (500 B.C.) by at least one millennium demand a reassessment of the introduction of this technology to the islands. We summarize the available evidence of what we term the Pre-Arawak Pottery horizon and address the social implications of the introduction of such technology to the insular Caribbean, based on the role of pots as tools. We show that this early pottery i…
From the Guanahatabey to the Archaic of Puerto Rico
Some of the early Spanish chronicles make reference to the presence of cave dwellers inhabiting the westernmost section of Cuba as well as the Guacayarima Peninsula in southwestern Haiti. These people, who supposedly lived marginal to Taino society, were named the Guanahatabey or Ciboney culture. The different descriptions of those groups shared elements that were later adopted uncritically in the construction of the social and cultural aspects o…
Rethinking Puerto Rican Precolonial History
The history of Puerto Rico has usually been envisioned as a sequence of colonizations-various indigenous peoples from Archaic through Taino were successively invaded, assimilated, or eliminated, followed by the Spanish entrada, which was then modified by African traditions and, since 1898, by the United States. The truth is more complex, but in many ways Puerto Rico remains one of the last colonies in the world. This volume focuses on the success…
The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology
In one sense, the Caribbean islands were isolated from their neighbors and the surrounding mainland by water, but the degree of isolation was negotiated by cultural potentials. This volume on Caribbean archaeology focuses on the cultural construction of insularity. In this regard, the Caribbean islands can shed their insular past and demonstrate their significant role for understanding world history. The articles in this volume are based on studi…
Isthmo–Antillean Engagements
This title provides an overview of archaeological investigations in the insular Caribbean, understood here as the islands whose shores surround the Caribbean Sea and the islands of the Bahama Archipelago. The handbook brings together examples of the best research conducted by scholars from across the globe to address the complexity of the Caribbean past
Pre-Columbian jadeitite artifacts from the Golden Rock Site, St. Eustatius, Lesser Antilles, with special reference to jadeitite artifacts from Elliot's, Antigua
New Questions and Old Paradigms
One of the central goals of archaeology is the definition of regional cultural succession. Since at least the 1960s, archaeology has purported to have moved beyond the strictures of Culture History, and yet the constructs of that paradigm (styles, periods, cultures) continue to be used routinely. This work aims to show that by doing so, one is still implicitly subscribing to that theoretical perspective"s assumptions and biases. In the end, this …
Indigenous Languages of the Caribbean
This title provides an overview of archaeological investigations in the insular Caribbean, understood here as the islands whose shores surround the Caribbean Sea and the islands of the Bahama Archipelago. The handbook brings together examples of the best research conducted by scholars from across the globe to address the complexity of the Caribbean past
Long-distance exchange in the precolonial Circum-Caribbean
Ship Graffiti on the Islands of the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos and Puerto Rico
Current Perspectives in the Precolonial Archaeology of Puerto Rico
During the past two decades, many of the traditional conceptions about the configuration of the cultural landscape of precolonial Puerto Rico have been critically addressed from both political and disciplinary perspectives. Colonialist undercurrents embedded in the traditional models used to structure the indigenous history of the island have come into question and some of the fundamental ideas about the social and cultural makeup of the human co…
Local and long-distance ceramic exchange in early Puerto Rico
Accessibility and Exchange in Boriquén
Geography (12 works) · Archaeology (11 works) · Ethnology (6 works) · History (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Cuban History and Society (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (3 works)