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  1. Eat and Die: The Last Meal of Sacrificed Chimú Camelids at Huanchaquito-Las Llamas, Peru, as Revealed by Starch Grain Analysis

    Article • Latin American Antiquity, May 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Clarissa Cagnato

  2. Food practices of the first farmers of Europe: Combined use-wear and microbotanical studies of Early Neolithic grinding tools from the Paris Basin

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, April 2021, Elsevier

    Clarissa Cagnato

  3. Boiled, fried, or roasted? Determining culinary practices in Medieval France through multidisciplinary experimental approaches

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, February 2021, Elsevier

    Clarissa Cagnato

  4. Monumental architecture at Aguada Fénix and the rise of Maya civilization

    Article • Nature, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Clarissa Cagnato

  5. Hervir y moler: descifrando técnicas de elaboración de alimentos a través del análisis microscópico de los granos de almidón recolectados en contextos arqueológicos mesoamericanos

    Article • August 2019, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Management

    Clarissa Cagnato

  6. Ancillary economic activities in a Classic Maya regal palace: A multiproxy approach

    Article • Geoarchaeology, June 2019, Wiley

    Clarissa Cagnato

  7. Prehistoric and Traditional Agriculture in Lowland Mesoamerica

    Article • February 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Clarissa Cagnato

  8. Shedding Light on the Nightshades (Solanaceae) Used by the Ancient Maya: a Review of Existing Data, and New Archeobotanical (Macro- and Microbotanical) Evidence from Archeological Sites in Guatemala

    Article • Economic Botany, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Clarissa Cagnato

  9. Ancient Maya manioc ( Manihot esculenta Crantz) consumption: Starch grain evidence from late to terminal classic (8th–9th century CE) occupation at La Corona, northwestern Petén, Guatemala

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, December 2017, Elsevier

    Clarissa Cagnato

  10. Sweet, weedy and wild: macrobotanical remains from a Late Classic (8th century ad) feasting deposit discovered at La Corona, an ancient Maya settlement

    Article • Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, June 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Clarissa Cagnato

  11. Ancient Underground pits in the Maya Region

    Article • Ancient Mesoamerica, January 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Clarissa Cagnato

  12. Archaeobotany in a Colonial Period Garden (New Orleans, Louisiana)

    Article • Journal of Ethnobiology, July 2015, Society of Ethnobiology

    Clarissa Cagnato