José R Oliver
Biographic Data
| ID | 3643291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | José R Oliver |
| GIVEN NAMES | José R |
| FAMILY NAME | Oliver |
| SIGNATURE | OLIVER J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Museum of London Archaeology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Identifying the Ceramics of Multiethnic Communities in Lowland South America
This study investigates technical traditions of pottery production at two archaeological sites, Picure (ca. 310–1480 CE) and Rabo de Cochino (ca. 100 BCE–1440 CE), in the Middle Orinoco River region near the Colombia–Venezuela border. The chaînes opératoires of multiple technical traditions are reconstructed. Petrographic, geochemical, and macrotrace analyses distinguish local from non-local production and identify hybridized technical traditions…
En Bas Saline
This erudite volume is the culmination of archaeological research on the north coast of Haiti, spurred by the tantalizing prospect that En Bas Saline may well have been the seat of Guacanagarí, the cacique or lord of the Marién “chiefdom” with whom Christopher Columbus established a long-lasting political alliance in his quest to conquer and colonize Hispaniola. If so, this area would also be where Columbus’s crew built their headquarters from th…
Pre-Columbian South America
Beads and Stamps in the Middle Orinoco
The area of the Atures Rapids in the Middle Orinoco River (Venezuela), where multiple Indigenous communities gathered to trade goods, has been identified as a prominent center of commerce since early colonial times. However, the exchange activities taking place there between local and nonlocal actors before European colonization are poorly understood, based only on the ethnohistoric record. This article presents an archaeometric analysis of stone…
Prehistoric settlements in the Caribbean
Mesoamerican arch aeology has fo cused mainly on th e ancient civilizations of the mainland, but kn owledge of early settlement, society and economy in th e Caribbean islands is essential for our understanding of th e prehistory of the region as a wh ole
Dark Shamans. Kanaimá And the Poetics of Violent Death
Book Review| October 01 2004 Dark Shamans. Kanaimá And the Poetics of Violent Death By Neil L. Whitehead. (Durham, nc: Duke University Press, 2002. 252 pp.,notes, works cited, index. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.) José R. Oliver José R. Oliver Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (4): 854–857. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-4-854 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplem…
Mortuary Practices, Social Development, and Ideology in Precolumbian Puerto Rico
Mortuary practices rank among the best sources of archaeological data from which to infer social organization, ideology, religious beliefs, and to a certain extent, the political structure of past societies. This essay (1) reviews mortuary practices among prehistoric groups of Puerto Rico, (2) proposes a possible sequence of changes through time, and (3) presents explanations that account for the observed changes. Aside from evident correlation w…
El centro ceremonial de Caguana, Puerto Rico
Using a multidisciplinary approach (archaeology, ethnohistory, linguistics, anthropology, and art history) Oliver explores the nature of Taino political-religious power using Caguana's ceremonial space and iconography as its primary context, and further looks into the implications of Caguana for understanding the development and functioning of chiefdom-level societies in Puerto Rico
Prehistoric settlements in the Caribbean
Monte Verde
Mortuary Practices, Social Development, and Ideology in Precolumbian Puerto Rico
Mortuary practices rank among the best sources of archaeological data from which to infer social organization, ideology, religious beliefs, and to a certain extent, the political structure of past societies. This essay (1) reviews mortuary practices among prehistoric groups of Puerto Rico, (2) proposes a possible sequence of changes through time, and (3) presents explanations that account for the observed changes. Aside from evident correlation w…
Beads and Stamps in the Middle Orinoco
The area of the Atures Rapids in the Middle Orinoco River (Venezuela), where multiple Indigenous communities gathered to trade goods, has been identified as a prominent center of commerce since early colonial times. However, the exchange activities taking place there between local and nonlocal actors before European colonization are poorly understood, based only on the ethnohistoric record. This article presents an archaeometric analysis of stone…
El centro ceremonial de Caguana, Puerto Rico
Using a multidisciplinary approach (archaeology, ethnohistory, linguistics, anthropology, and art history) Oliver explores the nature of Taino political-religious power using Caguana's ceremonial space and iconography as its primary context, and further looks into the implications of Caguana for understanding the development and functioning of chiefdom-level societies in Puerto Rico
Identifying the Ceramics of Multiethnic Communities in Lowland South America
This study investigates technical traditions of pottery production at two archaeological sites, Picure (ca. 310–1480 CE) and Rabo de Cochino (ca. 100 BCE–1440 CE), in the Middle Orinoco River region near the Colombia–Venezuela border. The chaînes opératoires of multiple technical traditions are reconstructed. Petrographic, geochemical, and macrotrace analyses distinguish local from non-local production and identify hybridized technical traditions…
Monte Verde
Prehistoric settlements in the Caribbean
Mortuary Practices, Social Development, and Ideology in Precolumbian Puerto Rico
Mortuary practices rank among the best sources of archaeological data from which to infer social organization, ideology, religious beliefs, and to a certain extent, the political structure of past societies. This essay (1) reviews mortuary practices among prehistoric groups of Puerto Rico, (2) proposes a possible sequence of changes through time, and (3) presents explanations that account for the observed changes. Aside from evident correlation w…
El centro ceremonial de Caguana, Puerto Rico
Using a multidisciplinary approach (archaeology, ethnohistory, linguistics, anthropology, and art history) Oliver explores the nature of Taino political-religious power using Caguana's ceremonial space and iconography as its primary context, and further looks into the implications of Caguana for understanding the development and functioning of chiefdom-level societies in Puerto Rico
Dark Shamans. Kanaimá And the Poetics of Violent Death
Book Review| October 01 2004 Dark Shamans. Kanaimá And the Poetics of Violent Death By Neil L. Whitehead. (Durham, nc: Duke University Press, 2002. 252 pp.,notes, works cited, index. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.) José R. Oliver José R. Oliver Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (4): 854–857. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-4-854 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplem…
Prehistoric settlements in the Caribbean
Mesoamerican arch aeology has fo cused mainly on th e ancient civilizations of the mainland, but kn owledge of early settlement, society and economy in th e Caribbean islands is essential for our understanding of th e prehistory of the region as a wh ole
Pre-Columbian South America
Beads and Stamps in the Middle Orinoco
The area of the Atures Rapids in the Middle Orinoco River (Venezuela), where multiple Indigenous communities gathered to trade goods, has been identified as a prominent center of commerce since early colonial times. However, the exchange activities taking place there between local and nonlocal actors before European colonization are poorly understood, based only on the ethnohistoric record. This article presents an archaeometric analysis of stone…
En Bas Saline
This erudite volume is the culmination of archaeological research on the north coast of Haiti, spurred by the tantalizing prospect that En Bas Saline may well have been the seat of Guacanagarí, the cacique or lord of the Marién “chiefdom” with whom Christopher Columbus established a long-lasting political alliance in his quest to conquer and colonize Hispaniola. If so, this area would also be where Columbus’s crew built their headquarters from th…
Identifying the Ceramics of Multiethnic Communities in Lowland South America
This study investigates technical traditions of pottery production at two archaeological sites, Picure (ca. 310–1480 CE) and Rabo de Cochino (ca. 100 BCE–1440 CE), in the Middle Orinoco River region near the Colombia–Venezuela border. The chaînes opératoires of multiple technical traditions are reconstructed. Petrographic, geochemical, and macrotrace analyses distinguish local from non-local production and identify hybridized technical traditions…
Geography (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (3 works) · Historical Studies in Central America (3 works) · History (3 works) · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works)