CAGNATO Clarissa

Chercheur associée

Adresse professionnelle
UMR 7041 – ArScAn – Archéologies Environnementales,
Maison de l’Archéologie et de l’Ethnologie
21, allée de l’Université
F-92023 NANTERRE Cedex

ccagnato@wustl.edu


Intitulé de la thèse
  • A Paleoethnobotanical Study of Two Classic Maya Sites, El Perú-Waka’ and La Corona
Domaines géographiques
  • Mésoamérique
Domaines thématiques
  • Archéobotanique: Carpologie et analyses microbotaniques (grains d’amidon)
  • L’alimentation dans le passé (avec un intérêt particulier pour l’utilisation de tubercules)
  • L’usage rituel de plantes
Formation et distinctions
  • 2016 : Doctorat Washington University in St. Louis
  • 2012: Boursière doctorale (National Science Foundation des Etats-Unis)
  • 2012: Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence (Washington University in St. Louis)
Emplois et enseignement

Emplois

  • 2018- 2019: Chercheur post-doctorale, Bourse DIM Matériaux anciens et patrimoniaux
  • 2016- 2017: Chercheur post-doctorale, Fondation Fyssen

Enseignement

  • 2016 (Janvier-mai) Washington University in St. Louis responsable de cours “Culture and Environment” (35h de CM).
  • 2013 (Juin-juillet) Washington University in St. Louis responsable de cours “Introduction to Archaeology” (35h de CM).
  • 2009-2016 Washington University in St. Louis assistante (type ATER, 10 cours différents).
  • 2008 Yale University assistante (type ATER) “Hoaxes and Fantasies in Archaeology”.
Responsabilités scientifiques et administratives

Responsabilités diverses

  • Archéobotaniste responsable de projets El Peru-Waka’ (Guatemala, dir. David Freidel, Washington University in St. Louis), La Corona (Guatemala, dir. Marcello Canuto, Tulane University), et Teotihuacan (Mexique, Saburo Sugiyama, Aichi Prefectural University; Nawa Sugiyama, George Mason University; David Carballo, Boston University).
  • Participante au projet ANR CAMÉLANDES (Dir. Nicolas Goepfert CNRS-Université de Paris 1, UMR 8096)


20 documents

Articles dans une revue

  • Clarissa Cagnato, Pascal Nlend, François Ngouoh, Richard Oslisly, Geoffroy de Saulieu. Analysis of Early Iron Age (2500 BP) and modern period (150 BP) starch grains in Western Central Africa. Scientific Reports, 2022, 12 (1), pp.18956. ⟨10.1038/s41598-022-23442-z⟩. ⟨hal-03924842⟩
  • Clarissa Cagnato, Nicolas Goepfert, Elliott Michelle, Gabriel Prieto, John Verano, et al.. Eat and Die: The Last Meal of Sacrificed Chimú Camelids at Huanchaquito-Las Llamas, Peru, as Revealed by Starch Grain Analysis. Latin American Antiquity, 2021, 32 (3), pp.595-611. ⟨10.1017/laq.2021.19⟩. ⟨hal-03498828⟩
  • Aurélie Chantran, Clarissa Cagnato. Boiled, fried, or roasted? Determining culinary practices in Medieval France through multidisciplinary experimental approaches. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2021, 35, pp.102715 -. ⟨10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102715⟩. ⟨hal-03493227⟩
  • Caroline Hamon, Clarissa Cagnato, Aline Emery-Barbier, Aurélie Salavert. Food practices of the first farmers of Europe: combined use-wear and microbotanical studies of early Neolithic grinding tools from the Paris basin. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2021, 36, pp.102764. ⟨10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102764⟩. ⟨halshs-03191774⟩
  • Clarissa Cagnato, Caroline Hamon, Aurélie Salavert, Elliott Michelle. Developing a Reference Collection for Starch Grain Analysis in Early Neolithic Western Temperate Europe. Open Archaeology, 2021, 7, pp.1035-1053. ⟨10.1515/opar-2020-0186⟩. ⟨hal-03359764⟩

Communications dans un congrès

  • Aurélie Salavert, Clarissa Cagnato, Françoise Toulemonde, Marie Balasse, Rémy Auray, et al.. Early Neolithic subsistence in the Aisne valley and adjacent regions: an overview based on plant macroand micro-remains,. Modelling households: economy & sociology of Europe’s first farmer population, Closing conference HOMES project, Nov 2023, Paris INHA, France. ⟨hal-04327560⟩
  • Clarissa Cagnato, Sugiyama Nawa. The Maya at Teotihuacan: Local and foreign plant foods as proxies for interactions during the early 4th century CE.. Moving Maya, 2022, Paris, France. ⟨hal-03925028⟩
  • Clarissa Cagnato. From the Visible to the Invisible: Ancient Maya and Teotihuacan Foodways as Understood by the Study of Macro- and Microbotanical Remains. Maya at the Playa, 2021, Online, United States. ⟨hal-03924959⟩
  • Clarissa Cagnato, Caroline Hamon, Elliott Michelle, Aurélie Salavert. L’utilisation de tubercules au néolithique ancien dans le Bassin parisien : l’apport des grains d’amidons en archéologie. Voix de la Terre: Diversité, histoires et trajectoires de vie des plantes à tubercules, Jan 2020, Paris, France. ⟨hal-02469715⟩
  • Clarissa Cagnato. Spicy, Sweet, Weedy, and Wild: Ancient Maya Cuisine as told by the Archaeobotanical Record. Tulane Maya Symposium, 2020, New Orleans (LA), United States. ⟨hal-03924972⟩
  • Clarissa Cagnato, Caroline Hamon, Elliott Michelle, Aurélie Salavert. The potential of starch grain analysis in understanding early farming practices in Western Europe. 1st Early Neolithic in Europe Conference, Nov 2019, Barcelona, Spain. ⟨hal-02469658⟩
  • Clarissa Cagnato, Caroline Hamon, Aurélie Salavert, Elliott Michelle. Mesolithic and Early Neolithic Foodways in North-western Europe: Combined Use-wear and Starch Residue Analyses on Grinding Tools. Association for Ground Stone Research (AGSTR) 2019, Sep 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark. ⟨halshs-02338789⟩
  • Clarissa Cagnato. Preclassic Maya plant use along the Usumacinta River: A microbotanical approach. Society for American Archaeology, 2019, Albuquerque, United States. ⟨hal-03924993⟩
  • Clarissa Cagnato, Caroline Hamon, Aurélie Salavert, Elliott Michelle. Analyses Microbotaniques Interdisciplinaires sur Objets Néolithiques.. Développements méthodologiques en taphonomie DIM MAP, Oct 2018, Paris, France. ⟨hal-02469704⟩
  • Clarissa Cagnato. Macro- and Microbotanical Results from Select Archaeological Contexts in the Plaza of the Columns Complex, Teotihuacan, Mexico.. Society for American Archaeology, 2018, Washington D.C. USA, United States. ⟨hal-03925006⟩
  • Diana Fridberg, Clarissa Cagnato. Estudios de plantas y animales en La Corona. XXVI Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2012, Guatemala, Guatemala. pp.1009-1020. ⟨halshs-02014233⟩

Poster de conférence

  • Aurélie Salavert, Françoise Toulemonde, Auray Rémy, Hoerni Caroline, Ivan Lafarge, et al.. A new experimentation on the early farming system in the Paris basin (France).. 1rst conference on the Early Neolithic in Europe., Nov 2019, Barcelone, France. ⟨halshs-02359048⟩
  • Clarissa Cagnato, Caroline Hamon, Elliott Michelle, Aurélie Salavert. The potential of starch grain analysis in understanding early farming practices in Western Europe. 18th conference of the International Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany, Jun 2019, Lecce, Italy. ⟨halshs-02166689⟩

Ouvrages (y compris édition critique et traduction)

  • Cécile Germain-Vallée, Irène Béguier, Clarissa Cagnato, François Charraud, Marie-France Dietsch, et al.. Le hameau du Néolithique ancien de Verson « les Mesnils » (Calvados, Normandie). Société Préhistorique Française, Mémoires de la Société Préhistorique Française n°72, 2023, 2-913745-91-1. ⟨hal-04637862⟩

Chapitres d'ouvrage

  • Clarissa Cagnato, Caroline Hamon, Aurélie Salavert. Starch Grain Analysis Of Early Neolithic (Linearbandkeramik and Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain) Contexts: Experimental Grinding Tests Of Cereals And Legumes.. P. Pedersen, A. Jörgensen-Lindahl, M. Sørensen, T. Richter (Eds.). Proceedings of the 3rd Meeting of the Association of Ground Stone Tools Research, archaeopress, 2021, 9781789694789. ⟨hal-03900229⟩