education and training
- B.A., University of Bristol
- Ph.D., London University
Cooke, Richard
Fellowship Advisor
Staff of Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Archaeology of New World tropics; faunal analysis; human ecology; history of fishing.
Background And Education
awards and honors
- Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2020
Research And Grants
Publications
selected publications
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- A preliminary multi-isotope assessment of human mobility and diet in pre-Columbian Panama 2021
- Archaeogenomic distinctiveness of the Isthmo-Colombian area 2021
- Late glacial and Early Holocene migrations, and Middle Holocene settlement on the lower isthmian land-bridge 2021
- The mid holocene occupation of the Pearl Islands: A case of unusual insular adaptations on the Pacific Coast of Panama 2021
- Behind white-tailed deer teeth: A micro- and mesowear analysis from three Panamanian pre-Columbian archaeological sites 2020
- Collagen and carbonate isotope data of fauna from pre-Columbian Panama 2020
- Domesticated landscapes of the neotropics: Isotope signatures of human-animal relationships in pre-Columbian Panama 2020
- Following white-tailed deer to the hilltop: A zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of deer hunting at Cerro Mangote, a Late Preceramic (7800-4600 cal yr BP) site in central Pacific Panama 2020
- Response to Todd and Graham's "Letter to the editor concerning external auditory bony growths in pre-Columbian inhabitants of Panama" 2019
- The role of dried fish: A taphonomical model of fish butchering and long-term preservation 2019
- Zooarchaeological and taphonomical study of the white-tailed deer (Cervidae: Odocoileus virginianus Zimmerman 1780) at Sitio Sierra, a pre-Columbian village in Pacific Coclé province, Panama, with an evaluation of its role in feasts 2019
- A probable primary malignant bone tumor in a pre-Columbian human humerus from Cerro Brujo, Bocas del Toro, Panamá 2018
- Cold-water diving in the tropics? External auditory exostoses among the pre-Columbian inhabitants of Panama 2018
- Interpersonal Violence at Playa Venado, Panama (550-850 AD): A Reevaluation of the Evidence 2018
- Taxonomic revision of the New World genus Ariopsis Gill (Siluriformes: Ariidae), with description of two new species 2017
- Evolution of opercle bone shape along a macrohabitat gradient: species identification using mtDNA and geometric morphometric analyses in neotropical sea catfishes (Ariidae) 2016
- Exploitation of dolphins (Cetacea: Delphinidae) at a 6000 yr old Preceramic site in the Pearl Island archipelago, Panama 2016
- Mangroves and people: Lessons from a history of use and abuse in four Latin American countries 2016
- Ocupaciones prehispanicas en Isla Pedro Gonzalez, Archipielago de las Perlas, Panama: Aproximacion a una cronologia con comentarios sobre las conexiones externas 2016
- Exploring the Y Chromosomal Ancestry of Modern Panamanians 2015
- Impactos humanos tempranos en fauna insular: El caso de los venados enanos de Pedro González (Archipiélago de las Perlas, Panamá) 2015
- Pre-Columbian raised fields in Panama: First evidence 2015
- First evidence for pre-Columbian raised fields in Central America 2014
- A 4,000-year-old shaman’s stone cache at Casita de Piedra,western Panama 2013
- Radiocarbon chronology of early human settlement on the Isthmus of Panama (13,000-7,000 BP) with comments on cultural affinities, environments, subsistence, and technological change 2013
- Decrypting the mitochondrial gene pool of modern Panamanians 2012
- Pre-Columbian Use of Freshwater Fish in the Santa Maria Biogeographical Province, Panamá 2008
- Taphonomy at Two Contiguous Coastal Rockshelters in Panama: Preliminary Observations Focusing on Fishing and Curing Fish 2008
- Cueva de los Vampiros, Coclé, Panama. Nuevos datos sobre la antigüedad del ser humano en el istmo de Panamá 2007
- Guangala Fishers and Farmers (Pescadores y Agricultores Guangala). Fishers and Farmers (Pescadores y Agricultores Guangala) 2007
- Starch fossils and the domestication and dispersal of chili peppers (Capsicum spp. L.) in the Americas 2007
- Starch grain evidence for the preceramic dispersals of maize and root crops into tropical dry and humid forests of Panamá 2007
- Systematics and biogeography of New World sea catfishes (Siluriformes: Ariidae) as inferred from mitochondrial, nuclear, and morphological evidence 2007
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- Crafting white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) bone and antler at Cerro Juan Díaz (LS-3), Greater Coclé Culture Area, Panama 2021
- Panama Indigena 2019
- Panamá prehispánico 2019
- Archaeological Collagen Fingerprinting in the Neotropics; Protein Survival in 6000 Year Old Dwarf Deer Remains from Pedro González Island, Pearl Islands, Panama 2017
- Inferring provenance, manufacturing technique, and firing temperatures of the Monagrillo ware (3520-1300 cal BC), Panama's first pottery 2014
- Pre-Columbian Exploitation of Birds Around Panama Bay 2013
- The Gilcrease Collection and Gran Coclé 2011
- Animal-derived artefacts at two pre-Columbian sites in the ancient savannas of central Panama. An update on their relevance to studies of social hierarchy and cultural attitudes towards animals 2010
- Arqueozoologia en la Baja América Central (Nicaragua, Costa Rica y Panama) 2010
- Fishing a pre-Hispanic settlements on the Pearl Island archipelago (Panama, Pacific), 1: Pedro Gonzalez Island (4030-3630 cal BCE) 2009
- Fishing at pre-Hispanic settlements on the Pearl Island archipelago (Panama, Pacific), II: Bayoneta Island (900-1300 CE) 2009
- The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Marine Research, Education, and Conservation in Panama 2009
- Marine catfish (Ariidae) of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: An update emphasising taxonomy, zoogeography and interpretation of Pre-Columbian fishing practices 2008
- Archaeozoology, art, documents, and the life assemblage, 2007
- Influencia humanas sobre la vegetación y fauna de vertebrados de Panamá: actualización de datos arqueozoológicos y su relación con el paisaje antrópico durante la época precolombina 2007
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Location
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Department
