Richard G Cooke
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 106679 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard G Cooke |
| NOMBRES | Richard G |
| APELLIDO | Cooke |
| FIRMA | COOKE R G |
| AFILIACIONES | Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5692-2862 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 165 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Allometry of Mexican hogfish ( Bodianus diplotaenia ) for predicting the body length of individuals from two pre‐Columbian sites in the Pearl Island archipelago (Panama)
The Mexican hogfish (Osteichthyes: Labridae, Bodianus diplotaenia Gill, 1862) is widely distributed throughout the tropical eastern Pacific from the Gulf of California to northern Peru, including all oceanic islands. Artisanal fishers occasionally capture it today and its remains are recovered at pre‐Columbian dwelling sites along the Pacific Coast of America. This paper addresses the advantages of using allometry to estimate size ranges of Mexic…
Human ecological impacts on islands
The present study's primary goal is to apply analyses of stable isotopes and tooth micro- and mesowear to the question of dietary change among a mid-Holocene population of small brocket deer (Cervidae: Mazama) in response to anthropogenic alteration of the natural insular vegetation for approximately 450 calendar years (6060-5620 cal yr BP). The brocket deer remains were found in shell-bearing middens on Pedro González in the Pearl Island archipe…
Patterns of Disease and Culture in Ancient Panama
Cerro Juan Díaz (LS-3) is a large archaeological site located in the coastal lowlands of central Pacific Panama that comprised a pre-Columbian village (200 B.C.–A.D. 1520). A multiyear field campaign (1992–2001) uncovered numerous human burials of diverse antiquity, integrity, complexity, and mortuary goods. This paper considers several aspects of the demography, diet, health, and cultural practices of the earliest mortuary population yet found a…
Late glacial and Early Holocene migrations, and Middle Holocene settlement on the lower isthmian land-bridge
The mid holocene occupation of the Pearl Islands
A preliminary multi-isotope assessment of human mobility and diet in pre-Columbian Panama
This study uses carbon (δ13C), nitrogen (δ15N), oxygen (δ18O), and strontium (87Sr/86Sr) isotopes to infer the diets and mobility patterns of pre-Columbian humans from seven archaeological sites in Panama: Cerro Mangote, Sitio Sierra, and Cerro Juan Díaz in central Pacific Panama; Cerro Brujo and Sitio Drago along Panama’s northwest Caribbean coast; Jicarita Island in the Gulf of Chiriquí; and Pedro González Island in the Gulf of Panama. Our init…
A Double-Headed Turtle God
When I was asked to comment on the illustration printed on the cover of the first (1961) volume of the journal L’Homme, I was honored to have my name associated with the inimitable Claude Lévi-Strauss, the founder of structuralist anthropology, which was nurtured by the tropical forests of Brazil and nourished by the exceptionally diverse ethnic groups whose forebears had lived there for millennia. I myself am an archaeologist, and when I arrived…
Behind white-tailed deer teeth
Following white-tailed deer to the hilltop
Domesticated landscapes of the neotropics
The role of dried fish
Cold‐water diving in the tropics? External auditory exostoses among the pre‐Columbian inhabitants of Panama
OBJECTIVES: The appearance of external auditory exostoses archaeologically has been attributed to aquatic activities in middle latitudes. However, recent clinical research implicates low sea surface temperatures, especially below a threshold of 19°C, as a stronger predictor of ear exostosis development than latitude. Here, we examine the frequency of external auditory exostoses in human remains from nine pre-Columbian archaeological sites in Pana…
Response to Todd and Graham's “Letter to the editor concerning external auditory bony growths in pre‐Columbian inhabitants of Panama”
Zooarchaeological and taphonomical study of the white-tailed deer (Cervidae)
A probable primary malignant bone tumor in a pre-Columbian human humerus from Cerro Brujo, Bocas del Toro, Panamá
Interpersonal Violence at Playa Venado, Panama (550-850 Ad)
Many Spanish chroniclers detail violent cultural practices of the indigenous populations they encountered in the Isthmo-Colombian Area; however, lack of physical evidence of interpersonal violence from archaeological contexts has made uncertain the veracity of these claims. At the precolumbian site of Playa Venado in Panama, these accounts of violent mortuary rituals may have influenced the interpretation of the burials encountered in excavations…
Ocupaciones Prehispánicas En Isla Pedro González, Archipiélago De Las Perlas, Panamá
Entre los años 2007 y 2010 se desarrollaron reconocimientos pedestres acompañados de sondeos y pequeñas excavaciones en el Archipiélago de Las Perlas, Panamá. Las investigaciones más intensivas se realizaron en Isla Pedro González. Esta breve síntesis preliminar de la cronología de la ocupación prehispánica de esta isla se basa en dataciones radiocarbónicas. También incluye comparaciones tipológicas y cronométricas con dos regiones culturales: Gr…
Exploitation of dolphins (Cetacea
Dolphins are widespread in warm oceanic and coastal waters. They habitually frequent islands. In California, Chile, and other localities, prehistoric peoples targeted dolphins. Some communities specialised in their capture. Elsewhere, prehistoric human use of cetaceans is attributed to opportunistic exploitation of active or stranded animals. In Meso- and Central America, the scarcity of cetaceans in archaeological sites is inferred to reflect th…
Pre-Columbian raised fields in Panama
A 4,000-year-old shaman's stone cache at Casita de Piedra, western Panama
Mounting Evidence for Historical Overfishing and Long-term Degradation of Caribbean Marine Ecosystems
The central claim of Baisre's (2010) article is that no significant ecological change occurred in the Caribbean before the middle of the twentieth century. The assumption that historical fisheries’
Starch grain evidence for the preceramic dispersals of maize and root crops into tropical dry and humid forests of Panama
The Central American isthmus was a major dispersal route for plant taxa originally brought under cultivation in the domestication centers of southern Mexico and northern South America. Recently developed methodologies in the archaeological and biological sciences are providing increasing amounts of data regarding the timing and nature of these dispersals and the associated transition to food production in various regions. One of these methodologi…
Depletion, Degradation, and Recovery Potential of Estuaries and Coastal Seas
Estuarine and coastal transformation is as old as civilization yet has dramatically accelerated over the past 150 to 300 years. Reconstructed time lines, causes, and consequences of change in 12 once diverse and productive estuaries and coastal seas worldwide show similar patterns: Human impacts have depleted >90% of formerly important species, destroyed >65% of seagrass and wetland habitat, degraded water quality, and accelerated species invasio…
Measuring, monitoring and managing the psychological well-being of first year university students
This paper profiles the psychological well-being of students in their initial year of university. There were three aims: to measure the impact of arrival at university on the psychological well-being of first year students, to monitor (i.e. profile) the shape of psychological well-being across the first year, and to investigate how students manage their well-being in relation to the use of university counselling services. Data were collected on f…
Prehistory of Native Americans on the Central American Land Bridge
Preceramic Maize in Central Panama
Prehistory of Native Americans on the Central American Land Bridge
Domesticated landscapes of the neotropics
The impact of salting and drying on fish bones
Las investigaciones actualísticas en torno a comunidades de pescadores facilitan sobremanera la inferencia de técnicas de pesca y la interpretación de los datos arqueofaunísti- cos relativos a peces. La deshidratación de peces a través de la salazón y el secado al sol y al viento continúa siendo practicada en el entorno de la Bahía de Parita en el Panamá Pacífico-Central. Este estudio describe los modos en que dos diferentes tipos de procesado de…
Prehistoric human adaptations to the seasonally dry forests of Panama
Since 1981 research in the Santa Maria Basin, an area of seasonally dry forest on the Pacific coast of Panama, has shown that collating environmental records with regional archaeological surveys enables us to identify small dispersed populations in New World tropical forests. Original multiple working hypotheses are reevaluated. Data show that: 1) the watershed has been occupied continuously since 11,000 BP; 2) population increases took place c. …
Ocupaciones Prehispánicas En Isla Pedro González, Archipiélago De Las Perlas, Panamá
Entre los años 2007 y 2010 se desarrollaron reconocimientos pedestres acompañados de sondeos y pequeñas excavaciones en el Archipiélago de Las Perlas, Panamá. Las investigaciones más intensivas se realizaron en Isla Pedro González. Esta breve síntesis preliminar de la cronología de la ocupación prehispánica de esta isla se basa en dataciones radiocarbónicas. También incluye comparaciones tipológicas y cronométricas con dos regiones culturales: Gr…
Prehistoric nearshore and littoral fishing in the eastern Tropical Pacific
Pre-Columbian raised fields in Panama
A 4,000-year-old shaman's stone cache at Casita de Piedra, western Panama
Mounting Evidence for Historical Overfishing and Long-term Degradation of Caribbean Marine Ecosystems
The central claim of Baisre's (2010) article is that no significant ecological change occurred in the Caribbean before the middle of the twentieth century. The assumption that historical fisheries’
A preliminary multi-isotope assessment of human mobility and diet in pre-Columbian Panama
This study uses carbon (δ13C), nitrogen (δ15N), oxygen (δ18O), and strontium (87Sr/86Sr) isotopes to infer the diets and mobility patterns of pre-Columbian humans from seven archaeological sites in Panama: Cerro Mangote, Sitio Sierra, and Cerro Juan Díaz in central Pacific Panama; Cerro Brujo and Sitio Drago along Panama’s northwest Caribbean coast; Jicarita Island in the Gulf of Chiriquí; and Pedro González Island in the Gulf of Panama. Our init…
The role of dried fish
Cold‐water diving in the tropics? External auditory exostoses among the pre‐Columbian inhabitants of Panama
OBJECTIVES: The appearance of external auditory exostoses archaeologically has been attributed to aquatic activities in middle latitudes. However, recent clinical research implicates low sea surface temperatures, especially below a threshold of 19°C, as a stronger predictor of ear exostosis development than latitude. Here, we examine the frequency of external auditory exostoses in human remains from nine pre-Columbian archaeological sites in Pana…
Zooarchaeological and taphonomical study of the white-tailed deer (Cervidae)
Interpersonal Violence at Playa Venado, Panama (550-850 Ad)
Many Spanish chroniclers detail violent cultural practices of the indigenous populations they encountered in the Isthmo-Colombian Area; however, lack of physical evidence of interpersonal violence from archaeological contexts has made uncertain the veracity of these claims. At the precolumbian site of Playa Venado in Panama, these accounts of violent mortuary rituals may have influenced the interpretation of the burials encountered in excavations…
Exploitation of dolphins (Cetacea
Dolphins are widespread in warm oceanic and coastal waters. They habitually frequent islands. In California, Chile, and other localities, prehistoric peoples targeted dolphins. Some communities specialised in their capture. Elsewhere, prehistoric human use of cetaceans is attributed to opportunistic exploitation of active or stranded animals. In Meso- and Central America, the scarcity of cetaceans in archaeological sites is inferred to reflect th…
The role of the Panamanian land bridge during the initial colonization of the Americas
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button
A Double-Headed Turtle God
When I was asked to comment on the illustration printed on the cover of the first (1961) volume of the journal L’Homme, I was honored to have my name associated with the inimitable Claude Lévi-Strauss, the founder of structuralist anthropology, which was nurtured by the tropical forests of Brazil and nourished by the exceptionally diverse ethnic groups whose forebears had lived there for millennia. I myself am an archaeologist, and when I arrived…
Following white-tailed deer to the hilltop
Ancient Panama
Preceramic Maize in Central Panama
Prehistoric nearshore and littoral fishing in the eastern Tropical Pacific
Prehistoric human adaptations to the seasonally dry forests of Panama
Since 1981 research in the Santa Maria Basin, an area of seasonally dry forest on the Pacific coast of Panama, has shown that collating environmental records with regional archaeological surveys enables us to identify small dispersed populations in New World tropical forests. Original multiple working hypotheses are reevaluated. Data show that: 1) the watershed has been occupied continuously since 11,000 BP; 2) population increases took place c. …
Seventh meeting of the ‘fish remains working group’ of the international council for archaeozoology
The impact of salting and drying on fish bones
Las investigaciones actualísticas en torno a comunidades de pescadores facilitan sobremanera la inferencia de técnicas de pesca y la interpretación de los datos arqueofaunísti- cos relativos a peces. La deshidratación de peces a través de la salazón y el secado al sol y al viento continúa siendo practicada en el entorno de la Bahía de Parita en el Panamá Pacífico-Central. Este estudio describe los modos en que dos diferentes tipos de procesado de…
Historical Overfishing and the Recent Collapse of Coastal Ecosystems
Ecological extinction caused by overfishing precedes all other pervasive human disturbance to coastal ecosystems, including pollution, degradation of water quality, and anthropogenic climate change. Historical abundances of large consumer species were fantastically large in comparison with recent observations. Paleoecological, archaeological, and historical data show that time lags of decades to centuries occurred between the onset of overfishing…
The role of the Panamanian land bridge during the initial colonization of the Americas
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button
Prehistory of Native Americans on the Central American Land Bridge
Pew
The following account is based on the reflections of the authors 1 of the Planning and Evaluation Wizard (PEW), a software tool produced by the South Australian Community Health Research Unit (SACHRU), which aims to assist project officers working in primary health care. Accessible from the SACHRU website 2 or on CD-ROM, PEW takes the user through the steps of developing grant applications, project and evaluation plans, (including budgets) and pr…
Depletion, Degradation, and Recovery Potential of Estuaries and Coastal Seas
Estuarine and coastal transformation is as old as civilization yet has dramatically accelerated over the past 150 to 300 years. Reconstructed time lines, causes, and consequences of change in 12 once diverse and productive estuaries and coastal seas worldwide show similar patterns: Human impacts have depleted >90% of formerly important species, destroyed >65% of seagrass and wetland habitat, degraded water quality, and accelerated species invasio…
Measuring, monitoring and managing the psychological well-being of first year university students
This paper profiles the psychological well-being of students in their initial year of university. There were three aims: to measure the impact of arrival at university on the psychological well-being of first year students, to monitor (i.e. profile) the shape of psychological well-being across the first year, and to investigate how students manage their well-being in relation to the use of university counselling services. Data were collected on f…
Starch grain evidence for the preceramic dispersals of maize and root crops into tropical dry and humid forests of Panama
The Central American isthmus was a major dispersal route for plant taxa originally brought under cultivation in the domestication centers of southern Mexico and northern South America. Recently developed methodologies in the archaeological and biological sciences are providing increasing amounts of data regarding the timing and nature of these dispersals and the associated transition to food production in various regions. One of these methodologi…
Mounting Evidence for Historical Overfishing and Long-term Degradation of Caribbean Marine Ecosystems
The central claim of Baisre's (2010) article is that no significant ecological change occurred in the Caribbean before the middle of the twentieth century. The assumption that historical fisheries’
A 4,000-year-old shaman's stone cache at Casita de Piedra, western Panama
Exploitation of dolphins (Cetacea
Dolphins are widespread in warm oceanic and coastal waters. They habitually frequent islands. In California, Chile, and other localities, prehistoric peoples targeted dolphins. Some communities specialised in their capture. Elsewhere, prehistoric human use of cetaceans is attributed to opportunistic exploitation of active or stranded animals. In Meso- and Central America, the scarcity of cetaceans in archaeological sites is inferred to reflect th…
Pre-Columbian raised fields in Panama
Ocupaciones Prehispánicas En Isla Pedro González, Archipiélago De Las Perlas, Panamá
Entre los años 2007 y 2010 se desarrollaron reconocimientos pedestres acompañados de sondeos y pequeñas excavaciones en el Archipiélago de Las Perlas, Panamá. Las investigaciones más intensivas se realizaron en Isla Pedro González. Esta breve síntesis preliminar de la cronología de la ocupación prehispánica de esta isla se basa en dataciones radiocarbónicas. También incluye comparaciones tipológicas y cronométricas con dos regiones culturales: Gr…
A probable primary malignant bone tumor in a pre-Columbian human humerus from Cerro Brujo, Bocas del Toro, Panamá
Interpersonal Violence at Playa Venado, Panama (550-850 Ad)
Many Spanish chroniclers detail violent cultural practices of the indigenous populations they encountered in the Isthmo-Colombian Area; however, lack of physical evidence of interpersonal violence from archaeological contexts has made uncertain the veracity of these claims. At the precolumbian site of Playa Venado in Panama, these accounts of violent mortuary rituals may have influenced the interpretation of the burials encountered in excavations…
The role of dried fish
Cold‐water diving in the tropics? External auditory exostoses among the pre‐Columbian inhabitants of Panama
OBJECTIVES: The appearance of external auditory exostoses archaeologically has been attributed to aquatic activities in middle latitudes. However, recent clinical research implicates low sea surface temperatures, especially below a threshold of 19°C, as a stronger predictor of ear exostosis development than latitude. Here, we examine the frequency of external auditory exostoses in human remains from nine pre-Columbian archaeological sites in Pana…
Response to Todd and Graham's “Letter to the editor concerning external auditory bony growths in pre‐Columbian inhabitants of Panama”
Zooarchaeological and taphonomical study of the white-tailed deer (Cervidae)
Behind white-tailed deer teeth
Geography (27 obras) · Biology (23 obras) · Archaeology (22 obras) · Ecology (20 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (14 obras) · Panama (14 obras) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (13 obras) · Geology (9 obras) · Fishery (7 obras) · History (7 obras)