Clarissa Cagnato
Biographic Data
| ID | 672609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clarissa Cagnato |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clarissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Cagnato |
| SIGNATURE | CAGNATO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Archéologie des Amériques |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2010-1437 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Photo-reversible adhesive polyacrylic acid/Fe3+ hydrogels for the efficient recovery of starch grains from archaeological lithic artifacts
A morphological and chemo-taxonomic approach to characterize starches from plants potentially available in the Eurasian Steppe during MIS 3 (60-25 ka BP)
Plants are often underrepresented in archaeological reconstructions of past subsistence strategies, especially concerning the Paleolithic, largely because they preserve poorly in the archaeological record. However, plants are versatile resources that were used for a wide range of purposes, including as a crucial food source. Starch, a high-energy polysaccharide produced by plants, may have played an important role in the survival of Homo sapiens …
Memory, Pilgrimage, and Social Life in an Ancient Maya City
Long-term research at Waka’s City temple (Structure M13-1) demonstrates it was an important locale for ritual commemoration by local people as well as those from afar. Extensive and diversely constituted deposits throughout the building’s surface demonstrate it was venerated publicly by non-elites throughout Waka’s final occupations and gradual abandonment. Recent re-examinations of these materials confirm that they appear consistent with materia…
The diversity of plant resources exploited in the palaces of Agbomè (kingdom of Danxomè/Dahomey), Bénin
The Danxomè kingdom developed in West Africa between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries AD. Its period of influence coincided with that of the Atlantic slave trade and in turn with important changes in the population’s dietary habits. Historical and archaeological studies of southern Bénin and Danxomè have highlighted the rich and varied diet of the population and the large number of plants they cultivated and used. However, research in the…
Nixtamalization at La Corona
The use of underground storage organs in the Early Neolithic (Linearbandkeramik and Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain) in the Paris Basin
The use of underground storage organs in the Early Neolithic (
Coupling the beams
A selection of five ground stones from Pontic Steppe sites dating back to the Early Upper Palaeolithic (EUP) was used as test-cases to be analysed by combining wear-traces and use-related biogenic residues (U-RBR). The artifacts studied can be termed “legacy” objects, excavated even many decades ago and kept in museum storage facilities. This type of storage might be considered putatively prone to contamination. The multidimensional contextual ap…
Huaca Amarilla, un espace funéraire andin unique dédié à l'inhumation de fœtus, de nouveau-nés, de nourrissons et de jeunes enfants du IXe au XVe siècle (Désert de Sechura, Pérou)
Le site de Huaca Amarilla, situé dans le désert de Sechura au nord du Pérou, a livré un ensemble funéraire singulier utilisé entre le IXe et le XVe siècle. Il se compose de 112 individus immatures (70 provenant de contextes funéraires fouillés et 42 de vestiges dispersés) dont l’âge au décès a été estimé entre 24 semaines d’aménorrhées et 7 ans, et d’un seul adulte. La sélection d’une méthode fiable pour estimer l’âge au décès de la population in…
Gathering and Sowing Across the Central Maya Lowlands
The recovery of macro- and microbotanicals, along with the study of chemical residues, allows us to shed light on a number of anthropological issues concerning ancient populations. This article reviews the data available to date on the plants used by preceramic peoples during the Archaic period and by the Early to Middle Preclassic Maya across the central Maya lowlands. Archaeobotanical data suggest that early preceramic populations took advantag…
Food practices of the first farmers of Europe
Developing a Reference Collection for Starch Grain Analysis in Early Neolithic Western Temperate Europe
While we know that cereals played an important role in the diet of Linearbandkeramik (LBK) and Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain (BVSG) populations in the Paris Basin, many questions remain to be answered as to the real contribution of other plants. To assess this topic, the recovery of other lines of data beyond macrobotanicals is crucial: starch grains have the potential to reveal additional information regarding past plant use. However, in West…
A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Investigate Use-Related Biogenic Residues on Palaeolithic Ground Stone Tools
Recent advances in the role played by dietary carbohydrates in human food webs during the Palaeolithic highlight that starchy foods were part of the diet well before crop domestication. Although certain plants can be eaten raw, intentional processing such as mechanical reduction using stone tools and thermal treatment readily increases the assimilation of nutrients for metabolic functions and for storing. We present a multi-techniques approach de…
Eat and Die
This article reconstructs the final diet of sacrificed domestic camelids from Huanchaquito-Las Llamas to understand whether feeding was part of the ritual practice. The site is situated on the northern coast of Peru and is dated to the fifteenth century AD (Late Intermediate period; LIP). It was used by the Chimús to kill and bury a large number of camelids, mostly juveniles. We reconstructed the final meal of 11 of the sacrificed individuals by …
Monumental architecture at Aguada Fénix and the rise of Maya civilization
Boiled, fried, or roasted? Determining culinary practices in Medieval France through multidisciplinary experimental approaches
Ancillary economic activities in a Classic Maya regal palace
This paper presents the results of a multiproxy approach to the ancillary activities which supported the ancient Maya royal court of the center of La Corona (750–900 CE). This approach sampled both the plaster floors and their overlaying soil matrix from areas of the palace of La Corona, resulting in a data set comprised of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry geochemical, soil‐flotation derived microartifactual, and macrobotanical data. …
Shedding Light on the Nightshades (Solanaceae) Used by the Ancient Maya
Ancient Maya manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz) consumption
Sweet, weedy and wild
Underground Pits (Chultunes) in the Southern Maya Lowlands
Chultunes— underground pits carved into bedrock — have been reported by the hundreds in the Maya region, yet debate on their principal use continues to this day. Sincechultuneshave not yielded solid data to answer the questions posed by Maya archeologists, they are sometimes not completely excavated or reported in detail. This article presents a review of previous work onchultunesin the Maya lowlands, followed by the presentation of new data from…
Strolling Through Madame Mandeville's Garden
Gardens can be seen as an avenue of inquiry for understanding the creation and negotiation of social identity. New Orleans is well known for its beautiful gardens, which date as far back as the French colonial period. Excavations at the Rising Sun Hotel site in New Orleans have revealed unique garden contexts from the French and Spanish colonial periods (1722–1796). In this paper, we present the results of the paleoethnobotanical study of samples…
A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Investigate Use-Related Biogenic Residues on Palaeolithic Ground Stone Tools
Recent advances in the role played by dietary carbohydrates in human food webs during the Palaeolithic highlight that starchy foods were part of the diet well before crop domestication. Although certain plants can be eaten raw, intentional processing such as mechanical reduction using stone tools and thermal treatment readily increases the assimilation of nutrients for metabolic functions and for storing. We present a multi-techniques approach de…
Food practices of the first farmers of Europe
Ancillary economic activities in a Classic Maya regal palace
This paper presents the results of a multiproxy approach to the ancillary activities which supported the ancient Maya royal court of the center of La Corona (750–900 CE). This approach sampled both the plaster floors and their overlaying soil matrix from areas of the palace of La Corona, resulting in a data set comprised of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry geochemical, soil‐flotation derived microartifactual, and macrobotanical data. …
Eat and Die
This article reconstructs the final diet of sacrificed domestic camelids from Huanchaquito-Las Llamas to understand whether feeding was part of the ritual practice. The site is situated on the northern coast of Peru and is dated to the fifteenth century AD (Late Intermediate period; LIP). It was used by the Chimús to kill and bury a large number of camelids, mostly juveniles. We reconstructed the final meal of 11 of the sacrificed individuals by …
Developing a Reference Collection for Starch Grain Analysis in Early Neolithic Western Temperate Europe
While we know that cereals played an important role in the diet of Linearbandkeramik (LBK) and Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain (BVSG) populations in the Paris Basin, many questions remain to be answered as to the real contribution of other plants. To assess this topic, the recovery of other lines of data beyond macrobotanicals is crucial: starch grains have the potential to reveal additional information regarding past plant use. However, in West…
Ancient Maya manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz) consumption
Underground Pits (Chultunes) in the Southern Maya Lowlands
Chultunes— underground pits carved into bedrock — have been reported by the hundreds in the Maya region, yet debate on their principal use continues to this day. Sincechultuneshave not yielded solid data to answer the questions posed by Maya archeologists, they are sometimes not completely excavated or reported in detail. This article presents a review of previous work onchultunesin the Maya lowlands, followed by the presentation of new data from…
Boiled, fried, or roasted? Determining culinary practices in Medieval France through multidisciplinary experimental approaches
Sweet, weedy and wild
Huaca Amarilla, un espace funéraire andin unique dédié à l'inhumation de fœtus, de nouveau-nés, de nourrissons et de jeunes enfants du IXe au XVe siècle (Désert de Sechura, Pérou)
Le site de Huaca Amarilla, situé dans le désert de Sechura au nord du Pérou, a livré un ensemble funéraire singulier utilisé entre le IXe et le XVe siècle. Il se compose de 112 individus immatures (70 provenant de contextes funéraires fouillés et 42 de vestiges dispersés) dont l’âge au décès a été estimé entre 24 semaines d’aménorrhées et 7 ans, et d’un seul adulte. La sélection d’une méthode fiable pour estimer l’âge au décès de la population in…
Strolling Through Madame Mandeville's Garden
Gardens can be seen as an avenue of inquiry for understanding the creation and negotiation of social identity. New Orleans is well known for its beautiful gardens, which date as far back as the French colonial period. Excavations at the Rising Sun Hotel site in New Orleans have revealed unique garden contexts from the French and Spanish colonial periods (1722–1796). In this paper, we present the results of the paleoethnobotanical study of samples…
Ancient Maya manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz) consumption
Sweet, weedy and wild
Underground Pits (Chultunes) in the Southern Maya Lowlands
Chultunes— underground pits carved into bedrock — have been reported by the hundreds in the Maya region, yet debate on their principal use continues to this day. Sincechultuneshave not yielded solid data to answer the questions posed by Maya archeologists, they are sometimes not completely excavated or reported in detail. This article presents a review of previous work onchultunesin the Maya lowlands, followed by the presentation of new data from…
Shedding Light on the Nightshades (Solanaceae) Used by the Ancient Maya
Ancillary economic activities in a Classic Maya regal palace
This paper presents the results of a multiproxy approach to the ancillary activities which supported the ancient Maya royal court of the center of La Corona (750–900 CE). This approach sampled both the plaster floors and their overlaying soil matrix from areas of the palace of La Corona, resulting in a data set comprised of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry geochemical, soil‐flotation derived microartifactual, and macrobotanical data. …
Monumental architecture at Aguada Fénix and the rise of Maya civilization
Boiled, fried, or roasted? Determining culinary practices in Medieval France through multidisciplinary experimental approaches
Gathering and Sowing Across the Central Maya Lowlands
The recovery of macro- and microbotanicals, along with the study of chemical residues, allows us to shed light on a number of anthropological issues concerning ancient populations. This article reviews the data available to date on the plants used by preceramic peoples during the Archaic period and by the Early to Middle Preclassic Maya across the central Maya lowlands. Archaeobotanical data suggest that early preceramic populations took advantag…
Food practices of the first farmers of Europe
Developing a Reference Collection for Starch Grain Analysis in Early Neolithic Western Temperate Europe
While we know that cereals played an important role in the diet of Linearbandkeramik (LBK) and Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain (BVSG) populations in the Paris Basin, many questions remain to be answered as to the real contribution of other plants. To assess this topic, the recovery of other lines of data beyond macrobotanicals is crucial: starch grains have the potential to reveal additional information regarding past plant use. However, in West…
A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Investigate Use-Related Biogenic Residues on Palaeolithic Ground Stone Tools
Recent advances in the role played by dietary carbohydrates in human food webs during the Palaeolithic highlight that starchy foods were part of the diet well before crop domestication. Although certain plants can be eaten raw, intentional processing such as mechanical reduction using stone tools and thermal treatment readily increases the assimilation of nutrients for metabolic functions and for storing. We present a multi-techniques approach de…
Eat and Die
This article reconstructs the final diet of sacrificed domestic camelids from Huanchaquito-Las Llamas to understand whether feeding was part of the ritual practice. The site is situated on the northern coast of Peru and is dated to the fifteenth century AD (Late Intermediate period; LIP). It was used by the Chimús to kill and bury a large number of camelids, mostly juveniles. We reconstructed the final meal of 11 of the sacrificed individuals by …
Coupling the beams
A selection of five ground stones from Pontic Steppe sites dating back to the Early Upper Palaeolithic (EUP) was used as test-cases to be analysed by combining wear-traces and use-related biogenic residues (U-RBR). The artifacts studied can be termed “legacy” objects, excavated even many decades ago and kept in museum storage facilities. This type of storage might be considered putatively prone to contamination. The multidimensional contextual ap…
Huaca Amarilla, un espace funéraire andin unique dédié à l'inhumation de fœtus, de nouveau-nés, de nourrissons et de jeunes enfants du IXe au XVe siècle (Désert de Sechura, Pérou)
Le site de Huaca Amarilla, situé dans le désert de Sechura au nord du Pérou, a livré un ensemble funéraire singulier utilisé entre le IXe et le XVe siècle. Il se compose de 112 individus immatures (70 provenant de contextes funéraires fouillés et 42 de vestiges dispersés) dont l’âge au décès a été estimé entre 24 semaines d’aménorrhées et 7 ans, et d’un seul adulte. La sélection d’une méthode fiable pour estimer l’âge au décès de la population in…
The use of underground storage organs in the Early Neolithic (Linearbandkeramik and Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain) in the Paris Basin
The use of underground storage organs in the Early Neolithic (
Nixtamalization at La Corona
The diversity of plant resources exploited in the palaces of Agbomè (kingdom of Danxomè/Dahomey), Bénin
The Danxomè kingdom developed in West Africa between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries AD. Its period of influence coincided with that of the Atlantic slave trade and in turn with important changes in the population’s dietary habits. Historical and archaeological studies of southern Bénin and Danxomè have highlighted the rich and varied diet of the population and the large number of plants they cultivated and used. However, research in the…
Photo-reversible adhesive polyacrylic acid/Fe3+ hydrogels for the efficient recovery of starch grains from archaeological lithic artifacts
A morphological and chemo-taxonomic approach to characterize starches from plants potentially available in the Eurasian Steppe during MIS 3 (60-25 ka BP)
Plants are often underrepresented in archaeological reconstructions of past subsistence strategies, especially concerning the Paleolithic, largely because they preserve poorly in the archaeological record. However, plants are versatile resources that were used for a wide range of purposes, including as a crucial food source. Starch, a high-energy polysaccharide produced by plants, may have played an important role in the survival of Homo sapiens …
Memory, Pilgrimage, and Social Life in an Ancient Maya City
Long-term research at Waka’s City temple (Structure M13-1) demonstrates it was an important locale for ritual commemoration by local people as well as those from afar. Extensive and diversely constituted deposits throughout the building’s surface demonstrate it was venerated publicly by non-elites throughout Waka’s final occupations and gradual abandonment. Recent re-examinations of these materials confirm that they appear consistent with materia…
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (18 works) · Archaeology (16 works) · Geography (16 works) · Biology (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Maya (8 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Paleoethnobotany (5 works)