Clarissa Cagnato 👩‍🔬🥑🌶🔬

MSCA Postdoc Fellow @COMAL_MSCA | Archaeobotanist | Starch Grain Analyst | Ancient cooking techniques | Foodways | Rituals | Ancient Maya | Teotihuacan •

[Clarissa Cagnato 👩‍🔬🥑🌶🔬 @ccagnato]

New publication alert 👉 Memory, Pilgrimage, and Social Life in an Ancient Maya City: Waka’s Fire Shrine as a Compendium of Political History 🔥🌿https://t.co/vEzvYrKOI2
#ancientMaya #rituals #archaeobotany #archaeology

[Clarissa Cagnato 👩‍🔬🥑🌶🔬 @ccagnato]

@COMAL_MSCA @AntiquityJ

[COMAL MSCA IF Project @COMAL_MSCA]

Delighted that our experimental and archaeological work on amorphous carbonized foods at Teotihuacan is cited in Antiquity’s Editorial on Food Matters. Find out more in the original Open Access article 👉 :
https://t.co/pzSSu0aM69 #archaeobotany #Maya #Tamales

[Clarissa Cagnato 👩‍🔬🥑🌶🔬 @ccagnato]

Check out our new publication in Journal of Archaeological Science, available here in #openaccess 👉https://t.co/QsBLCIdBNl @CaFoscari @elettrasincro #starchgrains #archaeology #spectroscopy #spectrometry

[COMAL MSCA IF Project @COMAL_MSCA]

🫔Detecting multi-ingredient food remains in Mesoamerican contexts is possible when combining SEM and micro-CT. Read our @PLOSONE open-access article here👉https://t.co/9nVcSirymN @CaFoscari
@MSCActions @PlazaColumnas @MarkoPrasek @EBadetti @ccagnato #tamales #archaeobotany

[Clarissa Cagnato 👩‍🔬🥑🌶🔬 @ccagnato]

New publication alert 🔬: Starch grain analysis of ceramics and lithics from one of the palaces of Agbomè in the Kingdom of Danxomè (Dahomey), Benin (18th-20th centuries). Check it out here 👇
https://t.co/adUVFfbzQF @ArcheoEnv7041 #archaeobotany #starchgrains #Benin

[Archaeology Magazine @archaeologymag]

In a stunning discovery, indigo has been found on 34,000-year-old stone tools in the foothills of Georgia’s Caucasus. It's the earliest evidence of indigo processing, and now archaeologists are trying to figure out how the hunter-gatherers used the stuff.

https://t.co/Xg7RhMZh6H

[Università Ca' Foscari Venezia @CaFoscari]

🔎 Le più antiche tracce di blu indaco su macine di 34mila anni fa: uno studio coordinato da #CaFoscari apre nuove prospettive sul comportamento delle popolazioni umane preistoriche.

🔗 https://t.co/WtSYvCYk82

[Clarissa Cagnato 👩‍🔬🥑🌶🔬 @ccagnato]

Thrilled to announce that our edited volume "Moving Maya: Circulations en espaces mayas de 250 apr. J.-C. à nos jours" has been published by Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre 📕. Purchase it here👉https://t.co/DsoJuNZBZX #archaeology #anthropology #Maya

[COMAL MSCA IF Project @COMAL_MSCA]

This week I will presenting the results of the @COMAL_MSCA project at @LINXS_Sweden. Looking forward to hearing exciting research on food structure science and its applications! @CaFoscari @MSCActions #archaeology #archaeobotany
https://t.co/6ki7uTcNAl

[Clarissa Cagnato 👩‍🔬🥑🌶🔬 @ccagnato]

Colorant or medicine? The presence of Isatis tinctoria on stone pebbles offers a new perspective on the fascinating possibilities of non-edible plant use in Upper Paleolithic contexts 👉 #archaeology #archaeobotany https://t.co/3AKbiPVaRX

[COMAL MSCA IF Project @COMAL_MSCA]

Had a productive time at @isisneutronmuon working with muons and neutrons on archaeological materials. Thanks for the hospitality of the beamline scientists and staff, and we look forward to returning.
Stay tuned for the results! @COMAL_MSCA @CaFoscari @MSCActions @STFC_Matters

[Clarissa Cagnato 👩‍🔬🥑🌶🔬 @ccagnato]

Last days to submit an abstract to our EAA 2025 session (#235) on “The archaeology of food processing: Innovative approaches from case studies around the world”. Both posters and oral presentations are welcome👉https://t.co/7wkhADQHj5.
DM me for more details!

[Clarissa Cagnato 👩‍🔬🥑🌶🔬 @ccagnato]

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[Clarissa Cagnato 👩‍🔬🥑🌶🔬 @ccagnato]

Do you work on ancient diets +use multidisciplinary approaches? Join our session “The archaeology of food processing” at the EAA 2025 conference in Belgrade. The call for contributions opens Friday (20/12/24). @A_Chantran @archaeologyEAA #archaeobotany https://t.co/at9SUveK4C

[COMAL MSCA IF Project @COMAL_MSCA]

For the last beamtime of the year we headed to @HZB_BESSY Synchrotron, where we had a productive and lovely time collecting new data for the @COMAL_MSCA project. Thanks to all who made it possible! @CaFoscari @MSCActions

[COMAL MSCA IF Project @COMAL_MSCA]

It was such as pleasure to spend 2 days at @elettrasincro gathering data for the @COMAL_MSCA project. Thank you to the beamline scientists at the SYRMEP beamline for the warm welcome and help! @CaFoscari @MSCActions @MarkoPrasek

[COMAL MSCA IF Project @COMAL_MSCA]

This week we are hard at work at the P05 beamline at @desynews in Hamburg to continue working on the COMAL project. We look forward to revealing new information about ancient Maya foods by using SR-μCT. @CaFoscari @MSCActions @andreabrunelli9

[Clarissa Cagnato 👩‍🔬🥑🌶🔬 @ccagnato]

Earliest direct evidence of nixtamalization recovered from Late Maya ceramics 🌽🔬. Check out our latest research at the site of La Corona in Guatemala. Read and download it here 👉https://t.co/iUBGBwl0yb #archaeobotany #maize #archaeology #starchspherulites

[COMAL MSCA IF Project @COMAL_MSCA]

As part of the @COMAL_MSCA project, we are beginning 4 days of microtomography at @CEITEC_Brno with the support of the @EXCITE_network. Thrilled to continue working on ancient Maya plant diets! @MSCActions @CaFoscari #archaeology #archaeobotany