2023

Fernandes Caromano, C.; Sereni Murrieta, R.S.; Villagran X.S. Igniting life. Habitus, v. 20, p. 477-509, 2023.

Ferraz, T.; Villagran X.S.; Nägele, K.; Radzevič Barbosa Lemes, R.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Wesolowski, V.; Lopes Alves, M.; Bastos, M.; Rapp Py-Daniel, A.; Pinto Lima, HELENA ; Mendes Cardoso, J.; Estevam, R.; Liryo, A.; Guimarães, G.M.; Figuti, L.; Eggers, S.; Plens, C.R.; Azevedo Erler, D.M.; Valadares Costa, H.A.; Da Silva Erler, I.; Koole, E.; Henriques, G.; Solari, A.; Martin, G., et al. Genomic history of coastal societies from eastern South America. Nature Ecology & Evolution, v. 1, p. 1-28, 2023.

Ortega, D. D.; Madella, M.; Souza, J. G.; Villagran X.S. Exploitation, management and cultivation of plants by Holocene populations of the Cerrado of Brazil (South America). In: Colonese, A.C., Milheira, R.G.. (Org.). Historical ecology and landscape archaeology in lowland South America. 1ed. Cham: Springer, 2023, v. 1, p. 219-241.

Schmidt, M.J.; Goldberg, S.L.; Heckenberger M.; Fausto, C.; Franchetto, B.; Watling, J.; Lima, H.; Moraes, B.; Dorshow, W.B.; Toney, J.; Kuikuro, K.; Waura, K.; Kuikuro, H.; Kuikuro, T.W.; Kuikuro, T.; Kuikuro, Y.; Kuikuro, A.; Teixeira, W.; Rocha, B.; Honorato, V.; Tavares, H.; Magalhães, M.; Barbosa, C.A.; Fonseca, J.A.; Mendes, J.; Alleoni, L.R.F.; Cerri, C.E.P.; Arroyo-Kalin, M.; Neves, E.; Perron, T. (2023): Intentional creation of carbon-rich dark earth soils in the Amazon. Sci. Adv., 9, eadh8499. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adh8499

Watling, J. (2023): As ecologias na arqueologia: bases teóricas para o estudo das interações entre pessoas e o ambiente. R. Museu. Arq. Etn., 30, 163-172. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2023.205026

Watling, J.; Schmidt, M.; Heckenberger, M.; Lima, H.; Moraes, B.; Waura, K.; Kuikuro, T.W.; Kuikuro, U.; Kuikuro, A. (2023): Assessing charcoal and phytolith signals for pre-Columbian land-use based on modern indigenous activity areas in the Upper Xingu, Amazonia. The Holocene, 33(10), 1176-1185. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836231183066

Will, M.; Jerardino, A.; Villagran X.S.; Green, A.; Erlandson, J.M. Editorial: Living on the edge-interdisciplinary perspectives on coastal and marine ecosystems in human prehistory. Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 11, p. 1-2, 2023.

Will, M. (Org.); Green, A. (Org.); Erlandson, J. M. (Org.); Villagran, X.S (Org.); Jerardino, A. (Org.). Living on the edge – interdisciplinary perspectives on coastal and marine ecosystems in human prehistory. 1ed. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA, 2023.

2022

Lombardo, U., Arroyo-Kalin, M., Schmidt, M., Huisman, H., Lima, H. P., de Paula Moraes, C., Neves, E. G., Clement, C. R., Aires da Fonseca, J., de Almeida, F. O., Vieira Alho, C. F. B., Bronk Ramsey, C., Brown, G. G., Cavallini, M. S., Lima da Costa, M., Cunha, L., dos Anjos, L. H. C., Denevan, W. M., Fausto, C., Fernandes Caromano, C., Fontana, A., Franchetto, B., Glaser, B., Heckenberger, M. J., Hecht, S., Honorato, V., Jarosch, K. A., Braga Junqueira, A., Kater, T., Tamanaha, E. K., Kuyper, T. W., Lehmann, J., Madella, M., Maezumi, S. Y., Matthews Cascon, L., Mayle, F. E., McKey, D., Moraes, B., Morcote-Ríos, G., Palheta Barbosa, C. A., Magalhães, M. P., Prestes-Carneiro, G., Pugliese, F., Pupim, F. N., Raczka, M. F., Py-Daniel, A. R., Riris, P., Cigaran da Rocha, B., Rodrigues, L., Rostain, S., Macedo, R. S., Shock, M. P., Sprafke, T., Stampanoni Bassi, F., Valle, R., Vidal-Torrado, P., Villagrán, X. S., Watling, J., Weber, S. L. and Teixeira, W. G. (2022). Evidence confirms an anthropic origin of Amazonian Dark Earths. Nature Communications 13: 3444. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31064-2

Villagran, X. S., Alves, M. L., Kater, T., Silva, K. B. V. da, Batalla, N., Costa, M. da, Costa, J., Erler, D. M. A., Ferreira, M. P., Magon, P., Reys, A. C. dos, Straioto, H., Tognoli, A. R., Strauss, A., Lama, E. A. del, Martins, L., Teixeira-Bastos, M., Neves, E. G., Zimpel, C. and Pugliese, F. (2022). Petrografia de cerâmicas da fase Bacabal (sambaqui Monte Castelo): um dos mais antigos usos de cauixi na Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas 17: 1. https://doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-BGOELDI-2020-0120

Salazar, D., Easton, G., Goff, J., Guendon, J. L., González-Alfaro, J., Andrade, P., Villagrán, X., Fuentes, M., León, T., Abad, M., Izquierdo, T., Power, X., Sitzia, L., Álvarez, G., Villalobos, A., Olguín, L., Yrarrázaval, S., González, G., Flores, C., Borie, C., Castro, V. and Campos, J. (2022). Did a 3800-year-old M w ~9.5 earthquake trigger major social disruption in the Atacama Desert? Sci. Adv. 8: 14. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm2996

Villagran, X.S.; Rodriguez, M.; Bentos Pereira, H.; Gianotti, C.; Sotelo, M.; del Pueto, L. (2022). Absence of bones in archaeological sites from the southeast of Uruguay: Taphonomy or human behavior? Geoarchaeology. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21906

2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. (2020): A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190081. https://www.scielo.br/j/bgoeldi/a/Y6j4Km7cDBT99PLYPHg3Gyd/?lang=pt

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.

 

 

oarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021

Boëda, E., Ramos, M., Pérez, A., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Pino, M., Hérisson, D., Clemente-Conte, I., Fontugne, M., Guérin, G., Villagran, X., Santos, J. C., Costa, L., Germond, L., Ahmed-Delacroix, N. E., Da Costa, A., Borges, C., Hoeltz, S., Felice, G., Gluchy, M., van Havre, G., Griggo, C., Lucas, L., de Souza, I., Viana, S., Strauss, A., Kerner, J. and Guidon, N. (2021). 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS One 16: e0247965. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965

2020

Almeida, F.O.; Watling, J.; Neves, E.G. (2020) A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto da arqueologia da Amazônia; Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15.

Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Ovlatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rublo-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J., Medeiros, V. B. de, De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vásquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A., Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T., Willerslev, E. (2020). Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v. 584, p. 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0

Calo, M. C., Rizzutto, M. A., Carmello-Guerreiro, S. M., Dias, C. S. B., Watling, J., Shock, M. P., Zimpel, C. A., Furquim, L. P., Pugliese, F., Neves, E. G. Correlation analysis of Light Microscopy and X-ray MicroCT imaging methods applied to archaeological plant remains’ morphological attributes visualization. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 15105, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71726-z.

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., de Souza, J. G., Watling, J., Handley, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 248, 106592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

Kater, T., Almeida, F. O., Mongeló, G. Z., Watling, J., Neves, E. G. (2020). Variabilidade estratigráfica e especial de contextos cerâmicos no Sítio Teotônio. Revista de Arqueologia Brasiliera, v. 33 (1), p. 198-220, http://dx.doi.org/10.24885/sab.v33i1.685

Neves, E. G., Watling, J., Almeida, F. O. A arqueologia do alto Madeira no contexto arqueológico da Amazônia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, v.15 (2), e20190081, (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0081.

Villagran, X.S.; Flores, C.; Olguín, L.; Rebolledo, S.; Durán, V.; Sandoval, C.; Andrade, P.; Borie, C.; Guendon, J-L.; Salazar, D. (in press). Microstratigraphy and faunal records from a shell midden on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile). In: South American Contributions to World Archaeology, Sonia Archila & Mariano Bonomo (Eds.), Sringer: One World Archaeology.

Watling, J.; Almeida, F. O.; Kater, T.; Shock, M. P.; Mongeló, G. Z.; Neves, E. G. (2020). Arqueobotânica de ocupações ceramistas na Cachoeira de Teotônio. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, 15 (2), e20190075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2019-0075

Watling, J., Castro, M. T., Simon, M. F., Rodrigues, F., Brilhante, M., De Oliveira, P. E., Neves, E. G. (2020). Phytoliths from native plants and surface soils in the Upper Madeira basin, SW Amazonia, and their potential for paleoecological reconstruction. Quaternary International, 550, p. 85-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.045.

2019

Calo, M.C.; Rizzutto, M.A.; Watling, J.; Furquim,L.P,; Shock, M.P.; Andrello, A.C.; Appoloni, C.R.; Freitas, F.O.; Kistler, L.; Zimpel, C.A.; Hermenegildo, T.; Neves, E.G.; Pugliese, F.A. (2019) Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25, p.10192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902

Cassino, M.F.; Alves, R.P.; Levis, C.; Watling, J.; Junqueira, A.B.; Shock, M.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; Andrade, V.L.C.; Furquim, L.P.; Coelho, S.D.; Tamanaha, E.K.; Neves, E.G.; Clement, C.R. (2019) Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Culha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. New York: Humana Press. pp.187-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

Villagran, X.S. The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory v.26, p.344 – 395, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9374-2

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Alves, M.Y; Oliveira, R.E. (2019) Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.24, p.785 – 795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.035

2018

Lahaye, C.; Guérin, G.; GluchY, M.; Hatté, C.; Fontugne, M.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Villagran, X.S.; Da Costa, A.; Borges, C.; Guidon, N.; Boëda, E. (2018) Another site, same old song: The Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence of Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião-North, Piauí, Brazil. Quaternary Geochronology, v.49, p.223 – 229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.006

Villagran, X.S.; Pessenda, L.C.; Valadares, H.A.; Atorre, T.; Erler, I.S.; Strauss, A.; Barioni, A.; Tognoli, A.; Duarte, C.; Bonfim, P.V.; Macario, K. (2018). Os primeiros povoadores do litoral norte do Espírito Santo: uma nova abordagem na arqueologia de sambaquis capixabas. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – Ciências Humanas, v.13, p.573 – 596. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000300006

Watling, J.; Shock, M.P.; Mongeló, G.Z.; Almeida, F.O.; Kater, T.; De Oliveira, P.E.; Neves, E.G. (2018) Direct archaeological evidence for southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre. PloS One, v. 13, p.e0199868. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199868

Watling, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 50, p.128-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001

2017

Colonese, A.C.; Netto, S.A.; Silva, A.; DeBlasis, P.; Villagran, X.S.; De Almeida, R.; Hancock, Y.; Hausmann, N.; Eloy, D.S.; Prendergast, A.; Schöne, B.R.; Da Cruz, F.W.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2017). Shell sclerochronology and stable isotopes of the bivalve Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from southern Brazil: Implications for environmental and archaeological studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v.484, p.7 – 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.006

Iriarte, J. & Watling, J. (2017): Appendix 7: Phytolith analysis. In: T. Dillehay (ed.), Where The Land Meets The Sea: Fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru. University of Texas Press: Austin, pp.674–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.60

Villagran, X.S.; Strauss, A.; Miller, C.; Ligouis, B.; Oliveira, R. Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil (2017). Journal of Archaeological Science v. 77, p. 10-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.008

Villagran, X.S., Huisman, H., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Jans, M. (2017). Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology, C. Nicosia & G. Stoops (Eds.). John Willey & Sons, Hoboken, pp. 11-38. 

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A. (2017) Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Mayle, F.; Schaan, D.; Pessenda, L.C.R.; Loader, N.J.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Damasceno, A.; Ranzi, A (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian ‘geoglyph’ builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.114, p.1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

Boëda, E ; Rocca, R.; da Costa, A.; Fontugne, M.; Hatté, C.; Clemente-Conte, I.; Santos, J.C.; Lucas, L.; Felice, G.; Lourdeau, A.; Villagran, X.S.; Gluchy, M.; Ramos, M.P.; Viana, S.; Lahaye, C.; Guidon, N.; Griggo, C.; Pino, M.; Pessis, A.M.; Borges, C.; Gato, B. (2016). New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil. PaleoAmerica, v. 2, p. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1237828

Strauss, A.; Oliveira, R.E.; Villagran, X.S.; Bernardo, D.V.; Salazar-García, D.C.; Bissaro, M.C.; Pugliese, F.; Hermenegildo, T.; Santos, R.; Barioni, A.; de Oliveira, E.C.; Moreno de Sousa, J.C.; Jaouen, K.; Ernani, M.; Hubbe, M.; Inglez, M.; Gratão, M.; Rockwell, H; Machado, M.; de Souza, G.; Chemale, F.; Kawashita, K.; O’Connell, T.C.; Israde, I.; Feathers, J.; Campi, C.; Richards, Michael; Wahl, J.; Kipnis, R.; Araujo, A.; Neves, W. (2016) Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). Antiquity, v. 90, p. 1454-1473. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.220

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J.; Whitney, B.S.; Consuelo, E.; Mayle, F.; Castro, W.; Schaan, D.; Feldspauch, T.R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: forest formations of southwestern Amazonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.226, p.30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004

2015

Carson, J. F.; Watling, J.; Mayle, F.E.; Whitney, B.S.; Iriarte, J.; Prümers, H.; Soto, J.D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene v.25, p.1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204

Dillehay, T.D; Ocampo, C.; Saavedra, J.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Vega, R.M.; Pino, M.; Collins, M.B.; Scott Cummings, L.; Arregui, I.; Villagran, X.S.; Hartmann, G.A.; Mella, M.; González, A.; Dix, G. (2015). New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile. Plos One, v. 10, p. e0141923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141923

Villagran, X.S.; Gaspar, M.D.; Souza, S.M. (2015) Primeiros estudos micromorfológicos em sambaquis da Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro): Sítio Sernambetiba sob o microscópio In: Geoarqueologia na América do Sul.1 ed.: Editora da PUC-Goiás, p. 427-462.

Watling, J.; Saunaluoma, S.; Schaan, D.; Pärssinen, M. (2015) Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v.4, p.541-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.014

2014

Carson, J.F.; Whitney, B.S.; Mayle, F.E.; Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J.D.; Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.111, p.10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111

Estevez E.J.; Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A.L.; Hardy, K. (2014). Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts. Quaternary International, v. 330, p. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.007

Villagran, X.S. (2014). A redefinition of waste: deconstructing shell and fish mound formation among coastal groups of southern Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 36, p. 2011-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.10.002

Villagran, X.S.; Poch, R.M. (2014). A new form of needle-fiber calcite produced by physical weathering of shells. Geoderma (Amsterdam), v.213, p.173 – 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.015

Villagran, X.S. (2014) Experimental Micromorphology on Burnt Shells of (Gmelin 1791) (Bivalvia, Veneridae) and its Potential for Identification of Combustion Features on Shell-Matrix Sites. Geoarchaeology (New York. Print), v.29, p.389 – 396. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21486

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P. (2014). Shell mounds as environmental proxies on the southern coast of Brazil. The Holocene, 24, p. 1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534743

2013

Villagran, X.S. (2013) Estratigrafia e micro-estratigrafia de sambaquis In: Abordagens estratégicas em sambaquis.1 ed.Erechim: Habilis, p. 89-107.

Villagran, X.S. (2013) O que sabemos dos grupos construtores de sambaquis? Breve revisão da arqueologia da costa sudeste do Brasil, dos primeiros sambaquis até a chegada da cerâmica Jê. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. , v.23, p.139 – 154. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2013.107182

Villagran, X.S.; Gianotti, C. (2013). Earthen mound formation in the Uruguayan lowlands (South America): micromorphological analyses of the Pago Lindo archaeological complex. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40, p. 1093-1107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.006

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, Carlos E.G.R.; Ligouis, B. (2013). Living in the cold: Geoarchaeology of sealing sites from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Quaternary International, v. 315, p. 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.001

Watling, J.; Iriarte, J. (2013) Phytoliths from the coastal savannas of French Guiana. Quaternary International, v.287, p.162-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.030

2012

Forancelli Pacheco, M.L.A.; Villagran, X.S.; Martins, G.R. (2012). Macroscopic and microbiological alterations of bird and small mammal bones buried in a Cerrado biome (south western Brazil). Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39, p. 1394-1400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.024

Iriarte J.; Power, M.; Rostain, S.; Mayle, F.E.; Jones, H.; Watling, J.; McKey, D. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v.109, p.6473-6478. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109

2011

Godino, I.B.; Alvarez, M.; Balbo, A.; Zurro, D.; Madella, M.; Villagran, X. S.; French, C. (2011). Towards high-resolution shell midden archaeology: experimental and ethnoarchaeology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Quaternary International, v. 239, p. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.017

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Experimental Micromorphology in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): building a reference collection for the study of shell middens in cold climates. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.38, p.588 – 604. Impact factor: 2.139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.013

Villagran, X.S.; Balbo, A., Madella, M., Vila, A., Estevez, J. (2011). Stratigraphic and spatial variability in shell middens: microfacies identification at the ethnohistoric site Tunel VII (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.3, p.357 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-011-0074-z

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2011). Building Coastal Landscapes: Zooarchaeology and Geoarchaeology of Brazilian Shell Mounds. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, v. 6, p. 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586087

Villagran, X.S.; Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2011). Geoarqueologia das primeiras ocupações humanas na Antartica. Vestígios. Revista latino-americana de arqueologia histórica, v. 5, p. 115-136. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v5i2.10653

2010

Giannini, P.C.F; Villagran, X.S.; Fornari, M.; Nascimento, D. R.; Menezes, P. M.L.; Tanaka, A.P.B.; Assuncao, D.C.; DeBlasis, P.; Amaral, P.G.C. (2010). Interações entre evolução sedimentar e ocupação humana pré-histórica na costa centro-sul de Santa Catarina. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, v. 5, p. 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1981-81222010000100008

Iriarte J.; Glaser B.; Watling J.; Wainwright A.; Birk J.; Renard D.; Rostain S.; McKey D. (2010) Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.37, p.2984-2994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016

Klokler, D.; Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; Peixoto, S.; DeBlasis, P. (2010). Juntos na costa: zooarqueologia e geoarqueologia de sambaquis do litoral sul catarinense. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. 20, p. 53-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2010.89910

Villagran, X.S. (2010). Estratigrafias que falam: geoarqueologia de um sambaqui monumental. São Paulo, Annablume Editora. pp. 205.

Villagran, X.S.; Klokler, D.; Nishida, P.; Gaspar, M.D.; DeBlasis, P. (2010) Lecturas estratigráficas: Arquitectura funerária y depositación de resíduos en el sambaquí Jabuticabeira II. Latin American Antiquity, v.21, p.195 – 216. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.2.195

2009

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

Villagran, X.S.; Giannini, P.C.F; DeBlasis, P. (2009). Archaeofacies analysis: Using depositional attributes to identify anthropic processes of deposition in a monumental shell mound of Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Geoarchaeology, v. 24, p. 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20269

Villagran, X.S.; DeBlasis, P.; Giannini, P.C.F. (2009) Primeros estudios micromorfológicos en sambaquís brasileños (sitio Jabuticabeira II, Estado de Santa Catarina). Intersecciones en Antropología, v.10, p.359 – 364, 2009. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179516759012

Villagran, X.S. (2009). Micromorfologia de Depósitos Arqueológicos. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, v. Sup. 8, p. 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113522

2006

Villagran, X.S. (2006). Existió la monumentalidad en tierra entre los cazadores-recolectores del Este uruguayo? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de construcciones antrópicas en tierra. Arqueología Suramericana, v. 2, p. 263-290.2021