Dr. Robert Cook
Member of the Faculty Oversight Committee
2062 Founders Hall
1179 University Drive
Newark, Ohio 43055
Research Interests
- Family and political structures in early farming communities
- Inter-regional interaction and the evolution of social complexity
- Settlement and landscape archaeology
- Mortuary analysis
- Experimental archaeology
- Public interpretation
- Fort Ancient, Mississippians
- Ohio Valley prehistory
Current Graduate Students
Ongoing Newark Earthwork's Center's Research
- Indigenous Ohio: OSU and Native Arts and Humanities Past and Present Grant
Research
- Miami Valley Recollections and Reconnections, Turpin Site 2023
- Doug Dierking, Vimeo.
- "Beyond Squier and Davis: Rediscovering Ohio's Earthworks Using Geophysical Remote Sensing"
- Jarrod Burks and Robert A. Cook, American Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, Vol 76, Issue 4, October 2011, Page 667-689.
- Continuity and Change in the Native American Village | Multicultural Origins and Descendants of the Fort Ancient Culture
- Cambridge University Press. 2017.
- Harvard Peabody Museum Collections
- Dr. Robert Cook, "Ohio archaeological collections, which are currently being cataloged to support the work of visiting researcher and professor Dr. Robert Cook of The Ohio State University."
- "On the Identification of Villages: Temporal and Formal Considerations between Early Nucleated Villages in the Miami Valleys and Neighboring Mississippian Regions."
- Robert A. Cook, Marcus A. Schulenburg, and Aaron R. Comstock. "The Archaeology of Arcuate Communities Spatial Patterning and Settlement in the Eastern Woodlands." Edited by Martin Menz, Analise Hollingshead and Haley Messer. The University of Alabama Press, 2024. Pg 125-147.
- Sunwatch: Fort Ancient Development in the Mississippian World
- The University of Alabama Press. 2007.
Awards
- 2014 The Ohio State University at Newark Scholarly Accomplishment Award (tenured category)
- 2013 The Ohio State University at Newark Mentoring of Undergraduate Research Award
- 2013 C. B. Moore Award for Excellence in Southeastern Archaeology (nominated)
- 2011 The Ohio State University at Newark Teaching Excellence Award (nominated)
- 2008 The Ohio State University Mentor Award (nominated)
- 2008 The Ohio State University at Newark Scholarly Accomplishment Award (pre-tenured category)
- 2001 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
- 1992 Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society in Social Science
- 1991 Golden Key National Honor Society