Champs et compétences
Archéobotanique, Carpologie, Grains d’amidon, Mésoamérique, Mayas, Teotihuacan
Programme en cours/recherches
- Etude archéobotanique sur le site de Teotihuacan, Mexique.
- En tant qu’archeobotaniste pour le projet archéologique Plaza de las Columnas, un projet collaboratif qui implique l’University of California, Riverside et l’Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (INAH) du Mexique, je suis chargée des analyses des restes carpologiques ainsi que les grains d’amidon. Ces études permettront de mieux connaitre l’utilisation de plantes par les anciens habitants de Teotihuacan.
- Etude archéobotanique de La Corona, Guatemala.
- Cette étude se concentre sur les restes botaniques (carpologiques et grains d’amidon) du site archéologique Maya de La Corona. Ces analyses font partie du projet de thèse de doctorat de Jocelyne Ponce et de son assesseur, le Professeur Marcello Canuto (Tulane Univesity). Ces recherches sont réalisées dans le cadre des collaborations impliquant la National Science Foundation et l’Instituto de Antropología e Historia (IDAEH) du Guatemala.
Formation
- Thèse de doctorat, 2016, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Anthropology. A Paleoethnobotanical Study of Two Classic Maya Sites, El Perú-Waka’ and La Corona.
- Maîtrise en anthropologie, 2008, Yale University. El Guayabal: Life at a Late Preclassic Center in the El Paraiso Valley, Honduras.
- Licence en archéologie, 2004, University of Leicester.
Bourses et prix
2021-2022 Contrat postdoc sur project ANR Starch4Sapiens, Aix-Marseille Université
2018-2019 Bourse DIM Matériaux anciens et patrimoniaux, UMR 8215 Trajectoires
2016-2017 Bourse postdoctorale, Fondation Fyssen, UMR 8096 Archéologie des Amériques
2015 Bourse doctorale, Washington University in St. Louis, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
2012 Bourse de la National Science Foundation, (Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant) pour recherches archéologiques au Guatemala
2011-12 Prix du Doyen pour l’excellence de l’enseignement (Washington University in St. Louis)
2006-2007 Bourse Albers Fund Traveling Grant (Peabody Museum, Yale University), pour recherches archéologiques au Honduras
2003 Bourse Leonardo da Vinci (Union Européenne), pour recherches archéologiques en Islande.
Enseignement
Chargée de cours
- Culture and Environment (Washington University in St. Louis, 2016)
- Introduction to Archaeology (Washington University in St. Louis, 2013)
- Teaching Assistant (Washington University in St. Louis 2009-2016). Cours donnés: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Culture and Environment, Brave New Crops, Archaeological Fantasies and Hoaxes, Introduction to Archaeology, People and Plants: Paleoethnobotany and Ethnobotany, Introduction to Environmental Studies, Culture and Environment, World Archaeology.
- Teaching Assistant (Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 2008). Cours donné: Hoaxes and Fantasies in Archaeology.
Bibliographie récente sélective
*Articles publiés dans des revues internationales à comité de lecture
2021 *Starch grain analysis of Early Neolithic (Linearbandkeramik and Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain) contexts: experimental grinding tests of cereals and legumes (Clarissa Cagnato, Caroline Hamon et Aurélie Salavert). Proceedings of the 3rd Meeting of the Association of Ground Stone Tools Research. Access Archaeology.
2021 *Gathering and Sowing across the Central Maya Lowlands: A Review of Plant Use by Preceramic Peoples and the Early to Middle Preclassic Maya. Ancient Mesoamerica 32: 486–501 (Special Section “The Preceramic and Early Ceramic Periods in the Central Maya Lowlands”).
2021 *A Multidimensional Approach to Investigate Use-related Biogenic Residues on Palaeolithic Ground Stone Tools (Laura Longo, Simona Altieri, Giovanni Birarda, Clarissa Cagnato, Valerio Graziani, Theodor Obada, Irina Pantyukhina, Paola Ricci, Natalia Skakun, Giusi Sorrentino, Vera Terekhina, Luca Tortora, Lisa Vaccari, et Carmine Lubritto). Environmental Archaeology 10.1080/14614103.2021.1975252.
2021 *Developing a Reference Collection for Starch Grain Analysis in Early Neolithic Western Temperate Europe (Clarissa Cagnato, Caroline Hamon, Aurélie Salavert, et Michelle Elliott). Open Archaeology doi.org/10.1515/opar-2020-0186.
2021 *Eat and Die: The Last Meal of Sacrificed Chimú Camelids at Huanchaquito–Las Llamas, Peru, as Revealed by Starch Grain Analysis (Clarissa Cagnato, Nicolas Goepfert, Michelle Elliott, John Verano, Gabriel Prieto, et Elise Dufour). Latin American Antiquity 32(3):595-611.
2021 *Boiled, fried, or roasted? Determining the culinary practices in Medieval France through multidisciplinary experimental approaches (Aurélie Chantran et Clarissa Cagnato). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 35(X).
2021 *European first farmers food practices: combined use-wear and microbotanical approaches of LBK and BVSG grinding tools from the Paris Basin. (Caroline Hamon, Clarissa Cagnato, Aline Barbier-Emery, et Aurélie Salavert). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 36(X).
2020 *Monumental architecture at Aguada Fénix and the rise of Maya civilization. (Takeshi Inomata, Daniela Triadan, Verónica A. Vázquez López, Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz, Takayuki Omori, María Belén Méndez Bauer, Melina García Hernández, Timothy Beach, Clarissa Cagnato, Kazuo Aoyama, and Hiroo Nasu). Nature 582(7813):530-533.
2019 *Hervir y Moler: Descifrando Técnicas de Elaboración de Alimentos, a Través del Análisis Microscópico de los Granos de Almidón Recolectados en Contextos Arqueológicos Mesoamericanos. Itinerarios 29(1): 9-33.
2019 *Ancillary Economic Activities in a Classic Maya Regal Palace: A Multi-Proxy Approach (Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire, Marcello A. Canuto, E. Christian Wells, Clarissa Cagnato, et Tomás Barrientos). Geoarchaeology 34(6): 768-782. doi.org/10.1002/gea.21750.
2019 *Prehistoric and Traditional Agriculture in Lowland Mesoamerica. In Oxford Encyclopedia of Agriculture and the Environment. Oxford University Press. doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199389414.013.174.
2018 Análisis del grano de almidón en el registro arqueológico de chiles en sitios mesoamericanos. Dans Chiles en Mexico: Historias, culturas y ambientes, édité par Marco Antonio Vasquez-Davila, Araceli Aguilar-Meléndez, Esther Katz, et Gladys Isabel Manzanero-Medina, pp. 39-54. Universidad Veracruzana/IRD, France.
2018 *Shedding light on the nightshades (Solanaceae) used by the ancient Maya: A review of existing data, and new archaeobotanical (macro- and microbotanical) evidence from archaeological sites in Guatemala. Economic Botany 72(2):180-195.
2018 *Sweet, Weedy, and Wild: Macrobotanical Remains from a Late Classic (8th century A.D.) Feasting Deposit Discovered at La Corona, an Ancient Maya Settlement. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 27(1): 241-252.
2017 *Ancient Maya Manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz) Consumption: Starch Grain Evidence from Late to Terminal Classic (8th-9th century A.D.) Occupation at La Corona, Northwestern Petén, Guatemala. (Clarissa Cagnato et Jocelyne M. Ponce). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 16:276-286.
2017 *Underground pits (Chultunes) in the Southern Maya Lowlands: Excavation Results from Classic Maya Sites in Northwestern Petén, Guatemala. Ancient Mesoamerica 28(1):75-94.
2016 Critique littéraire du livre “The Forest of the Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical Guide” par Suzanne Cook, 2016. Economic Botany 70(3):343-344.
2015 *Strolling through Madame Mandeville’s Garden: The Real and Imagined Landscape of Eighteenth Century New Orleans, Louisiana. (Clarissa Cagnato, Gayle J. Fritz, et Shannon L. Dawdy). Journal of Ethnobiology 35(2):235-261.
Communication à des congrès, colloques, etc. (Sélection, 5 dernières années)
2021 Maya at the Playa 2021—From the Visible to the Invisible: Ancient Maya and Teotihuacan Foodways as Understood by the Study of Macro- and Microbotanical Remains.
2021 Associazione Italiana di Archeometria (AIAr) (Italian Archaeometric Society) — Naples, Italie. Molecular Gastronomy and Human Evolution: micro and nano-resolved techniques disclose the recipe for Starch Food Niche colonization (Laura Longo, Elena Badetti, Giovanni Birarda, Clarissa Cagnato, Francesca C. Izzo, et Giusi Sorrentino).
2020 Tulane Maya Symposium 2020—Nouvelle Orleans, Louisiane. Spicy, Sweet, Weedy, and Wild: Ancient Maya Cuisine as told by the Archaeobotanical Record.
2019 1st Early Neolithic in Europe Conference—Barcelone, Espagne. The potential of starch grain analysis in understanding early farming practices in Western Europe (Clarissa Cagnato, Caroline Hamon, Michelle Elliott, et Aurélie Salavert).
2019 El pastoralismo andino en la época prehispánica: enfoque interdisciplinario y nuevas perspectivas—Lima, Perou. La última comida de camélidos Chimú: Resultados preliminares de fitolitos y de granos de almidón en los contenidos intestinales y las heces (Michelle Elliott, Clarissa Cagnato, et Nicolas Goepfert).
2019 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology —Albuquerque, New Mexico. Preclassic Maya plant use along the Usumacinta River: A microbotanical approach.
2018 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology —Washington, D.C. Macro- and Microbotanical Results from Select Archaeological Contexts in the Plaza of the Columns Complex, Teotihuacan, Mexico.
2017 Society for Economic Botany —Bragançe, Portugal. Wood for the Gods: An Anthracological Study of an Ancient Maya Fire Shrine at El Peru-Waka’, Guatemala.
2017 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology —Vancouver, Canada. Feeding the Mountain: Plant Remains from Ritual Contexts on and around Structure M13–1 at El Perú-Waka’ (Clarissa Cagnato, Olivia Navarro-Farr, Griselda Pérez Robles, Juan Carlos Pérez Calderón, et Damaris Menéndez).