education and training
- B.A., University of Bristol
- Ph.D., London University
Cooke, Richard
Fellowship Advisor
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute staff
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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article
- Cooke, Richard G. 2021. "A Double-Headed Turtle God." L'Homme.Revue française d'anthropologie, 5–20. 238, https://doi.org/10.4000/lhomme.39714. 2021
- Sharpe, Ashley E., Smith-Guzmán, Nicole, Curtis, Jason, Isaza-Aizpurúa, Ilean, Kamenov, George D., Wake, Thomas A., and Cooke, Richard G. 2021. "A preliminary multi-isotope assessment of human mobility and diet in pre-Columbian Panama." Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 36:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102876 2021
- Capodiferro, Marco Rosario, Aram, Bethany, Raveane, Alessandro, Migliore, Nicola Rambaldi, Colombo, Giulia, Ongaro, Linda, Rivera, Javier, Mendizabal, Tomas, Hernandez-Mora, Iosvany, Tribaldos, Maribel, Perego, Ugo Alessandro, Li, Hongjie, Scheib, Christiana Lyn, Modi, Alessandra, Gomez-Carballa, Alberto, Grugni, Viola, Lombardo, Gianluca, Hellenthal, Garrett, Miguel Pascale, Juan, Bertolini, Francesco, Grieco, Gaetano Salvatore, Cereda, Cristina, Lari, Martina, Caramelli, David, Pagani, Luca et al. 2021. "Archaeogenomic distinctiveness of the Isthmo-Colombian area." Cell 184 (7):1706. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.02.040 2021
- Lopez-Angarita, Juliana, Camilo Cubillos-M, Juan, Villate-Moreno, Melany, Del Cid, Annissamyd, Diaz, Juan M., Cooke, Richard, Cagua, E. Fernando, and Tilley, Alexander. 2021. "Bright spots for research and conservation of the largetooth sawfish Pristis pristis in Colombia and Panama." Endangered Species Research, 147–160. 46, Oldendorf Luhe; Germany: Inter-Research. https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01150. 2021
- Ranere, Anthony J. and Cooke, Richard G. 2021. "Late glacial and Early Holocene migrations, and Middle Holocene settlement on the lower isthmian land-bridge." Quaternary International 578:20-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.06.002 2021
- Smith-Guzman, Nicole, Sanchez Herrera, L. S., and Cooke, Richard G. 2021. "Patterns of Disease and Culture in Ancient Panama: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of the Early Graves at Cerro Juan Díaz." Bioarchaeology International, 78–95. 5, (1), https://doi.org/10.5744/bi.2021.1004. 2021
- Pearson, Georges A., Guillermo Martin, Juan, Andres Castro, Sergio, Jimenez Acosta, Maximo, and Cooke, Richard G. 2021. "The mid holocene occupation of the Pearl Islands: A case of unusual insular adaptations on the Pacific Coast of Panama." Quaternary International 578:155-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.07.036 2021
- Rambaldi Migliore, Nicola, Colombo, Giulia, Capodiferro, Marco Rosario, Mazzocchi, Lucia, Chero Osorio, Ana Maria, Raveane, Alessandro, Tribaldos, Maribel, Perego, Ugo Alessandro, Mendizabal, Tomas, Monton, Alejandro Garcia, Lombardo, Gianluca, Grugni, Viola, Garofalo, Maria, Ferretti, Luca, Cereda, Cristina, Gagliardi, Stella, Cooke, Richard, Smith-Guzman, Nicole, Olivieri, Anna, Aram, Bethany, Torroni, Antonio, Motta, Jorge, Semino, Ornella, and Achilli, Alessandro. 2021. "Weaving Mitochondrial DNA and Y-Chromosome Variation in the Panamanian Genetic Canvas." Genes, 12, (12), Basel; Switzerland: MDPI. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12121921. 2021
- Martínez-Polanco, María Fernanda, Rivals, Florent, and Cooke, Richard G. 2020. "Behind white-tailed deer teeth: A micro- and mesowear analysis from three Panamanian pre-Columbian archaeological sites." Quaternary International 557:70-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.09.022 2020
- Sugiyama, Nawa, France, Christine A. M., Cooke, Richard G., and Martínez-Polanco, María Fernanda. 2020. "Collagen and carbonate isotope data of fauna from pre-Columbian Panama." Data in Brief 31:105974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.105974 2020
- Sugiyama, Nawa, Martínez-Polanco, María Fernanda, France, Christine A. M., and Cooke, Richard G. 2020. "Domesticated landscapes of the neotropics: Isotope signatures of human-animal relationships in pre-Columbian Panama." Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 59:Article 101195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101195 2020
- Martínez-Polanco, María Fernanda, Ranere, Anthony, and Cooke, Richard G. 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." Quaternary International https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.06.003 2020
- Cooke, Richard G. and Sánchez H, Luis A. 2019. "Panama Indigena." in Nueva historia general de Panamá Tomo 1, Capítulo 1, edited by Calvo, Alfredo Castillero and Aparicio, Fernando., 115-160. Editora Novo Art, S.A. 2019
- Cooke, Richard G., Sánchez H, Luis A., Smith-Guzmán, Nicole E., and Lara-Kraudy, Alexandra. 2019. "Panamá prehispánico." in Nueva Historia General de Panamá, Tomo 1, Capítulo 1, edited by Calvo, Alfredo Castillero and Aparicio, Fernando., 39-114. Editora Novo Art, S.A. 2019
- Smith-Guzmán, Nicole E. and Cooke, Richard G. 2019. "Response to Todd and Graham's "Letter to the editor concerning external auditory bony growths in pre-Columbian inhabitants of Panama"." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 168 (4):810-811. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23792 2019
- Zohar, Irit and Cooke, Richard G. 2019. "The role of dried fish: A taphonomical model of fish butchering and long-term preservation." Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 26:1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.05.029 2019
- Martínez-Polanco, María Fernanda and Cooke, Richard G. 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." Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00883-8 2019
- Smith-Guzmán, Nicole E., Toretsky, Jeffrey A., Tsai, Jason, and Cooke, Richard G. 2018. "A probable primary malignant bone tumor in a pre-Columbian human humerus from Cerro Brujo, Bocas del Toro, Panamá." International Journal of Paleopathology 21:138-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2017.05.005 2018
- Smith‐Guzmán, Nicole E. and Cooke, Richard G. 2018. "Cold-water diving in the tropics? External auditory exostoses among the pre-Columbian inhabitants of Panama." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23757 2018
- Smith-Guzmán, Nicole E. and Cooke, Richard G. 2018. "Interpersonal Violence at Playa Venado, Panama (550-850 AD): A Reevaluation of the Evidence." Latin American Antiquity 29 (04):718-735. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.48 2018
- Buckley, Michael, Cooke, Richard G., Martínez, María Fernanda, Bustamante, Fernando, Jiménez, Máximo, Lara, Alexandra, and Martín, Juan Guillermo. 2017. "Archaeological Collagen Fingerprinting in the Neotropics; Protein Survival in 6000 Year Old Dwarf Deer Remains from Pedro González Island, Pearl Islands, Panama." in Zooarchaeology in the Neotropics, 157-175. Springer Nature. 2017
- Marceniuk, Alexandre P., Acero, Arturo P., Cooke, Richard G., and Betancur-R, Ricardo. 2017. "Taxonomic revision of the New World genus Ariopsis Gill (Siluriformes: Ariidae), with description of two new species." Zootaxa 4290 (1):https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4290.1.1 2017
- Stange, Madlen, Aguirre-Fernández, Gabriel, Cooke, Richard G., Barros, Tito, Salzburger, Walter, and Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R. 2016. "Evolution of opercle bone shape along a macrohabitat gradient: species identification using mtDNA and geometric morphometric analyses in neotropical sea catfishes (Ariidae)." Ecology and Evolution 6 (16):5817-5830. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2334 2016
- Cooke, Richard G., Wake, Thomas, Martinez-Polanco, Maria, Jimenez-Acosta, Maximo, Bustamante, Fernando, Holst, Irene, Lara-Kraudy, Alexandra, Martin, Juan Guillermo, and Redwood, Stewart. 2016. "Exploitation of dolphins (Cetacea: Delphinidae) at a 6000 yr old Preceramic site in the Pearl Island archipelago, Panama." Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 6:733-756. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.12.001 2016
- López-Angarita, Juliana, Roberts, Callum M., Tilley, Alexander, Hawkins, Julie P., and Cooke, Richard G. 2016. "Mangroves and people: Lessons from a history of use and abuse in four Latin American countries." Forest Ecology and Management 368:151-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2016.03.020 2016
- Martin, Juan Guillermo, Cooke, Richard G., Bustamante, Fernando, Holst, Irene, Lara, Alexandra, and Redwood, Stewart D. 2016. "Ocupaciones prehispanicas en Isla Pedro Gonzalez, Archipielago de las Perlas, Panama: Aproximacion a una cronologia con comentarios sobre las conexiones externas." Latin American Antiquity 27 (3):378-396. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.27.3.378 2016
- Grugni, Viola, Battaglia, Vincenza, Perego, Ugo Alessandro, Raveane, Alessandro, Lancioni, Hovirag, Olivieri, Anna, Ferretti, Luca, Woodward, Scott R., Pascale, Juan Miguel, Cooke, Richard G., Myres, Natalie, Motta, Jorge, Torroni, Antonio, Achilli, Alessandro, and Semino, Ornella. 2015. "Exploring the Y Chromosomal Ancestry of Modern Panamanians." PloS One 10 (12):1-24. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144223 2015
- Martinez-Polanco, Maria, Jimenez, Maximo, Buckley, Mike, and Cooke, Richard G. 2015. "Impactos humanos tempranos en fauna insular: El caso de los venados enanos de Pedro González (Archipiélago de las Perlas, Panamá)." Revista Archaebios 9 (1):202-214. 2015
- Martín, Juan G., Mendizábal, Tomás, Schreg, Rainer, Cooke, Richard G., and Piperno, Dolores R. 2015. "Pre-Columbian raised fields in Panama: First evidence." Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 3:558-564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.08.018 2015
- Martin, Juan G., Mendizabal, Tomas, Schreg, Rainer, Piperno, Dolores R., and Cooke, Richard G. 2014. "First evidence for pre-Columbian raised fields in Central America." Antiquity 89 (343): 2014
- Dickau, Ruth, Redwood, Stewart D., and Cooke, Richard G. 2013. "A 4,000-year-old shaman’s stone cache at Casita de Piedra,western Panama." Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 5 (4):331-349. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-012-0112-5 2013
- Cooke, Richard G., Ranere, Anthony, Pearson, Georges, and Dickau, Ruth. 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." Quaternary International 801:3-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.02.032 2013
- Perego, Ugo A., Lancioni, Hovirag, Tribaldos, Maribel, Angerhofer, Norman, Ekins, Jayne E., Olivieris, Anna, Woodward, Scott R., Pascales, Juan Miguel, Cooke, Richard G., Motta, Jorge, and Achilli, Alessandro. 2012. "Decrypting the mitochondrial gene pool of modern Panamanians." PLoS ONE 7 (6):1-10. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038337 2012
- Cooke, Richard G. and Jimenez, Maximo. 2009. "Fishing a pre-Hispanic settlements on the Pearl Island archipelago (Panama, Pacific), 1: Pedro Gonzalez Island (4030-3630 cal BCE)." in Fishes-Culture-Environment Through Archaeoichthyology, Ethnography and History: The 15th Meeting of the ICAZ Fish Remains Working Group (FRWG), September 3-9, 2009 in Poznan & Turun, Poland, edited by Makowiecki, Daniel, Hamilton-Dyer, Sheila, Riddler, Ian, Trzaska-Nartowski, N., and Makohonienko, Miroslaw., 167-171. Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe. 2009
- Cooke, Richard G. and Jimenez, Maximo. 2008. "Marine catfish (Ariidae) of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: An update emphasising taxonomy, zoogeography and interpretation of Pre-Columbian fishing practices." in Archéologie du Poisson: 30 Ans d'Archéo-Ichtyologie au CNRS: Hommage aux Travaux de Jean Desse et Nathalie Desse-Berset: Actes des Rencontres, 18-20 Octobre 2007/XXVIIIe Rencontres Internationales d'Archéologie et d'Histoire d'Antibes, edited by Bearez, Philippe, Grouard, Sandrine, and Clavel, Benoît., 161-180. Éditions APDCA. 2008
- Cooke, Richard G. and Jimenez, Maximo. 2008. "Pre-Columbian Use of Freshwater Fish in the Santa Maria Biogeographical Province, Panamá." Quaternary International 185:48-58. 2008
- Carvajal-Contreras, Diani Rocio, Cooke, Richard G., and Jimenez, Maximo. 2008. "Taphonomy at Two Contiguous Coastal Rockshelters in Panama: Preliminary Observations Focusing on Fishing and Curing Fish." Quaternary International 180:90-106. 2008
- Pearson, Georges and Cooke, Richard G. 2007. "Cueva de los Vampiros, Coclé, Panama. Nuevos datos sobre la antigüedad del ser humano en el istmo de Panamá." Arqueologia del Area Intermedia 7:39-70. 2007
- Cooke, Richard G. 2007. "Guangala Fishers and Farmers (Pescadores y Agricultores Guangala). Fishers and Farmers (Pescadores y Agricultores Guangala)." Environmental Archaeology 12:216-218. 2007
- Perry, Linda, Dickau, Ruth, Zarrillo, Sonia, Holst, Irene, Pearsall, Deborah M., Piperno, Dolores R., Berman, Mary Jane, Cooke, Richard G., Rademaker, Kurt, Ranere, Anthony J., Raymond, J. Scott, Sandweiss, Daniel H., Scaramelli, Franz, Tarble, Kay, and Zeidler, James A. 2007. "Starch fossils and the domestication and dispersal of chili peppers (Capsicum spp. L.) in the Americas." Science 315 (5814):986-988. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1136914 2007
- Dickau, Ruth, Ranere, Anthony J., and Cooke, Richard G. 2007. "Starch grain evidence for the preceramic dispersals of maize and root crops into tropical dry and humid forests of Panamá." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104 (9):3651-3656. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0611605104 2007
- Betancur-R., Ricardo, Acero, Arturo, Bermingham, Eldredge, and Cooke, Richard G. 2007. "Systematics and biogeography of New World sea catfishes (Siluriformes: Ariidae) as inferred from mitochondrial, nuclear, and morphological evidence." Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45 (1):339-357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2007.02.022 2007
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chapter
- Bustamante, Fernando, Cooke, Richard G., and Martín, Juan Guillermo. 2021. "Arqueologia del archipielago de Las perlas, Panama: la tecnologia litica en la ocupacion preceramica de la isla Pedro Gonzalez." In Mucho mas que un puente terrestre: Avances de la arqueologia en Panamá. 197–211. Panama: Editora Novo Art. 2021
- Martínez-Polanco, M. F., Solis, O., Sanchez Herrera, L. S., Jimenez, M., and Cooke, Richard G. 2021. "Crafting white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) bone and antler at Cerro Juan Díaz (LS-3), Greater Coclé Culture Area, Panama." In Bones at a crossroads: Integrating Worked Bone Research with Archaeometry and Social Zooarchaeology. Wild, Markus, Thurber, Beverly A., Rhodes, Stephen, and Gates St-Pierre, Christian, editors. 213–242. Sidestone Press. 2021
- Cooke, Richard G., Jiménez, Máximo, Wake, Thomas A., and Martín, Juan Guillermo. 2021. "Impactos de los primeros inmigrantes humanos en los mamiferos marinos y la fauna terrestre del archipielago de Las Perlas, Panamá." In Mucho mas que un puente terrestre: Avances de la arqueologia en Panamá. 213–237. Panama: Editora Novo Art. 2021
- Iizuka, Fumie, Cooke, Richard G., Frame, Lesley, and Vandiver, Pamela B. 2014. "Inferring provenance, manufacturing technique, and firing temperatures of the Monagrillo ware (3520-1300 cal BC), Panama's first pottery." in Craft and science: International perspectives on archaeological ceramics, edited by Martinon-Torres, Marcos., 19-29. Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation. https://doi.org/10.5339/uclq.2014.cas.ch3 2014
- Cooke, Richard G., Steadman, David, Jimenez, Maximo, and Isaza-Aizpurua, Ilean. 2013. "Pre-Columbian Exploitation of Birds Around Panama Bay." in The Archaeology of Mesoamerican Animals, edited by Gotz, Christopher M. and Emery, Kitty F., Lockwood Press. https://doi.org/10.6078/M79G5JR 2013
- Cooke, Richard G. 2011. "The Gilcrease Collection and Gran Coclé." in To Capture the Sun: Gold Ancient Panama, 115-160. Gilcrease Museum. 2011
- Cooke, Richard G. and Jimenez, Maximo. 2010. "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." in Anthropological Approaches to Zooarchaeology: Colonialism, Complexity and Animal Transformations, edited by Campana, Douglas V., Crabtree, P., deFrance, S. D., Lev-Tov, J., and Choyke, A., 30-55. Oxbow Books. 2010
- Cooke, Richard G. and Martin Rincon, Juan Guillermo. 2010. "Arqueozoologia en la Baja América Central (Nicaragua, Costa Rica y Panama)." in Estado actual de la arqueozoologia latinoamericana: Current advances for the Latin-American archaeozoology, edited by Mengoni Goñalons, Guillermo, Arroyo-Cabrales, Joaquin, Polaco, Oscar J., and Aguilar, Felisa J., 105-131. Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia. 2010
- Martinez, Maria Fernanda, Jimenez, Maximo, and Cooke, Richard G. 2009. "Fishing at pre-Hispanic settlements on the Pearl Island archipelago (Panama, Pacific), II: Bayoneta Island (900-1300 CE)." in Fishes-Culture-Environment Through Archaeoichthyology, Ethnography & History, edited by Makowiecki, Daniel, Hamilton-Dyer, Sheila, Riddler, Ian, Trzaska-Nartowski, N., and Makohonienko, Miroslaw., 172-175. Bogucki WynadwictwoNaukowe. 2009
- Robertson, D. Ross, Christy, John H., Collin, Rachel, Cooke, Richard G., D'Croz, Luis, Kaufmann, Karl W., Moreno, Stanley Heckadon, Maté, Juan L., O'Dea, Aaron, and Torchin, Mark E. 2009. "The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Marine Research, Education, and Conservation in Panama." 73-93. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.01960768.38.73 2009
- Cooke, Richard G., Jiménez, Máximo, and Ranere, Anthony J. 2007. "Archaeozoology, art, documents, and the life assemblage,." in Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology, edited by Reitz, Elizabeth J., Scarry, C. Margaret, and Scudder, Sylvia J., 2nd ed. 95-121. Springer. 2007
- Cooke, Richard G., Jimenez, Maximo, and Ranere, Anthony J. 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." in Ecología y evolución en los trópicos, edited by Leigh, Egbert Giles, Jr., Herre, Edward Allen, Jackson, Jeremy B. C., and Santos-Granero, Fernando., 562-593. Editora Nova Art. 2007
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dataset
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report
- Cooke, Richard G. 2014. [Report] Origenes, Dispersion Y Supervivencia De Las Sociedades Originarias De La Sub-Region IstmeÑa De America: Una ReseÑa En El Marco De La Historia Profunda. Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Studies. https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/30892. 2014
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Department
