Just a little respect
Bocas dolphins may be more sociable while we shelter in place
Abril 13, 2020
A study of dolphin behavior in the presence of tourist boats informs conservation efforts.
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Buried with snails
What animal bones tell us about the rise and fall of the Maya in Guatemala
Mayo 18, 2020
Tens of thousands of tiny bone fragments reveal eating habits, ceremonial practices and the development of animal domestication during more than 2000 years of history.
Expedition
Two decades among the birds of Panama
Agosto 05, 2020
Between 1944 and 1966, Dr. Alexander Wetmore, a legendary ornithologist and Sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, investigated the avifauna of the Isthmus of Panama. This became the basis of his four-volume ‘The Birds of the Republic of Panama’. In this webinar, STRI anthropologist Dr. Stanley Heckadon-Moreno takes us for a historical and photographic journey across Dr. Wetmore’s expeditions in Panama, with the support of Dr. Pamela Henson, director of Institutional History at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
The great flood
Animated maps of sea level rise: the Isthmus of Panama during the last 26,000 years
Septiembre 11, 2020
These maps dramatically illustrate how rising sea levels completely altered the shape of Panama’s coastline, creating islands and submerging large areas of land.
Slavery and Utopia
Peruvian Amazonian shaman rose to power on promises of liberation and immortality
Septiembre 14, 2020
Anthropologist Fernando Santos-Granero has pieced together the story of a change agent whose life spanned an important period in South American history in his book, Slavery and Utopia, now available in English and Spanish.
Recognition
Richard Cooke joins International Council for Archaeozoology’s Committee of Honor
Febrero 03, 2021
STRI staff scientist Richard Cooke has been elected to the Committee of Honor of the International Council for Archaeozoology, of which he has been a member since 1993.
An ‘oral’ history
Archaeologists search for the origin of dental modification in Panama
Marzo 26, 2021
A new study asks when and how the Ngäbe indigenous group began to practice dental modification
Inclusive science
Women in science propose changes to discriminatory measures of scientific success
Junio 21, 2021
The scientists advocate shifting the current value system, which is biased against women and minorities, towards a more diverse and inclusive model of science
Invasion dynamics
Biologists discover that more intense predation in the tropics can limit marine invasions
Junio 23, 2021
What makes a successful invasion? What keeps invaders out? Are some geographic locations more vulnerable to invasion than others?
Paleo Nut
Is this the oldest cashew on the isthmus?
Agosto 03, 2021
A fossil tree discovery in Panama offers clues regarding the establishment of the genus Anacardium in Central and South America
