A guiding force in archaeology
Wishing farewell to our friend, Dr. Richard Cooke
November 30, 2023
He would have turned 77 this past October. We deeply miss his endless enthusiasm for learning and his passion for teaching others.
He would have turned 77 this past October. We deeply miss his endless enthusiasm for learning and his passion for teaching others.
Our lab supports research into the lived experience of ancient Isthmian cultures and human groups of the American Tropics more broadly. We explore a wide variety of research questions using multiple, often interdisciplinary approaches that include the study of diverse archaeological material...
A steady income stream incentivizes tropical landowners to reforest.
For six days, archeology technician Aureliano Valencia led a workshop on how to reconstruct pre-Columbian ceramics.
Timber plantations near urbanized areas support the movement of small and medium-sized terrestrial mammals between patches of natural forest.
Regrowing tropical forests emit significantly lower soil carbon dioxide than cattle pastures.
This research expands knowledge about the archaeological ceramics of the Gran Cocle culture at the Cerro Juan Diaz Archaeological Site, which spans a period of occupation from 200 BC to 1550 AD and is one of the largest pre-Hispanic communities in central Panama.
Individuals recovered at the archaeological site of Cerro Juan Díaz shed more light on how the local communities buried and honored their dead.
A cutting-edge molecular lab
and launching point to the
Eastern Tropical Pacific
My research interests span a broad range of subjects from conservation biology and restoration ecology to collaborations with social scientist and economists on subjects related to human behavior and land management. The common theme is the applied nature of my work and the effort to provide...