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Maria Giovanna Belcastro

Full Professor

Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences

Academic discipline: BIOS-03/B Anthropology

Publications

Sorrentino, Rita; Pietrobelli, Annalisa; Mameli, Davide; Nicolosi, Teresa; Belcastro, MARIA GIOVANNA, Data and code to analyse the extent of the hip bone sexual dimorphism in two Italian coeval modern skeletal samples, 2025. [Database]

Mameli, D; Pietrobelli, A; Sorrentino, R; Nicolosi, T; Mariotti, V; Belcastro, MG, Entheseal variation and locomotor behavior during growth, «JOURNAL OF ANATOMY», 2024, Early View, pp. 1 - 19 [Scientific article]Open Access

Nicolosi, Teresa; Battilani, Patrizia; Belcastro, Maria Giovanna, Exploring the current meaning of plaster face casts in museums: the case of Lidio Cipriani’s facial masks at the Anthropological Collections of the University of Bologna (Italy), «INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HERITAGE STUDIES», 2024, 30, pp. 905 - 919 [Scientific article]

Pietrobelli, A.; Sorrentino, R.; Sparacello, V. S.; Mottes, E.; Fontana, F.; Sineo, L.; Benazzi, S.; Marchi, D.; Belcastro, M. G., Exploring the role of fibular extremities as indicators of mobility patterns and locomotor behavior in Homo sapiens from Mid- Late Upper Paleolithic to the modern age, «ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES», 2024, 16, pp. 1 - 28 [Scientific article]Open Access

Govoni, Paola; Belcastro, Maria Giovanna; Bonoli, Alessandra; Guerzoni, Giovanna, Ripensare l'Antropocene. Oltre natura e cultura, Roma, Carocci, 2024, pp. 194 (BIBLIOTECA DI TESTI E STUDI). [Research monograph]

Erica Piccirilli, Rita Sorrentino, Francesca Seghi, Antonino Vazzana, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Sahra Talamo, Katerina Harvati, Adriana Moroni, Stefano Ricci, Stefano Benazzi, Taxonomic reassessment of the human remains from the Middle Paleolithic site of Grotta del Poggio (Cilento, Southern Italy), in: EAA - Persisting with change. Abstract book, 2024, pp. 1070 - 1071 (atti di: EAA - European Association of Archaeologists, Rome, Italy, 28th - 31th August 2024) [Abstract]

Erica Piccirilli, Rita Sorrentino, Francesca Seghi, Antonino Vazzana, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Sahra Talamo, Katerina Harvati, Adriana Moroni, Stefano Ricci, Stefano Benazzi, Taxonomic reassessment of the human remains from the Middle Palaeolithic site of Grotta del Poggio (Cilento, southern Italy), in: 14th Annual ESHE Conference, 2024(atti di: ESHE - European Society for the Study of Human Evolution, Zagreb, Croatia, 11-15 September 2024) [Poster]

Teresa Nicolosi, Valentina Mariotti, Monica Miari, Sara Silvestrini, Federico Lugli, Rita Sorrentino, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Stefano Benazzi, Anthropological and taphonomic analyses of the Eneolithic human skeletal remains from Fornace Cappuccini (Ravenna): preliminary results on an unusual and complex funerary ritual, in: ESSERI UMANI, 2023, pp. 47 - 47 (atti di: XXV Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione Antropologica Italiana, Torino, 6-8 Settembre 2023) [Abstract]

Carla Figus, Rita Sorrentino, Kristian J. Carlson, Antony Colombo, Eugenio Bortolini, Federico Bernardini, Igor Erjavec, Tamas Hajdu, Tamás Szeniczey, Orsolya Mateovics-László, Ildiko Pap, Claudio Tuniz, Mario Novak, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Timothy M. Ryan, Stefano Benazzi, Becoming adults: Exploring the late ontogeny of the human talus, «FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION», 2023, 11, Article number: 1205277 , pp. 01 - 17 [Scientific article]Open Access

Annalisa Pietrobelli, Antonio Profico, Rita Sorrentino, Stefano Benazzi, Damiano Marchi, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, “From both sides now”: the covariation of fibular ends in extant hominids and morphological correlates to bipedalism and other locomotion strategies, in: ESSERI UMANI, 2023, pp. 3 - 3 (atti di: XXV Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione Antropologica Italiana, Torino, 6-8 Settembre 2023) [Abstract]

Pietrobelli, A.; Sorrentino, R.; Benazzi, S.; Belcastro, M. G.; Marchi, D., Linking the proximal tibiofibular joint to hominid locomotion: A morphometric study of extant species, «AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY», 2023, Early View, pp. 1 - 20 [Scientific article]Open Access

Rita Sorrentino, Michele Conconi, Kristian J. Carlson, Annalisa Pietrobelli, Claudio Belvedere, Carla Figus, Jaap P. P. Saers, Jay T. Stock, Damiano Marchi, Timothy M. Ryan, Alberto Leardini, Nicola Sancisi, Stefano Benazzi, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Looking for the morpho-functional meaning of the Neanderthal talar uniqueness: morphological and kinematic investigations, in: ESSERI UMANI, 2023, pp. 6 - 6 (atti di: XXV Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione Antropologica Italiana, Torino, 6-8 Settembre 2023) [Abstract]

Sorrentino, Rita; Carlson, Kristian J; Orr, Caley M; Pietrobelli, Annalisa; Figus, Carla; Li, Shuyuan; Conconi, Michele; Sancisi, Nicola; Belvedere, Claudio; Zhu, Mingjie; Fiorenza, Luca; Hublin, Jean-Jacques; Jashashvili, Tea; Novak, Mario; Patel, Biren A; Prang, Thomas C; Williams, Scott A; Saers, Jaap P P; Stock, Jay T; Ryan, Timothy; Myerson, Mark; Leardini, Alberto; Desilva, Jeremy; Marchi, Damiano; Belcastro, Maria Giovanna; Benazzi, Stefano, Morphological and evolutionary insights into the keystone element of the human foot's medial longitudinal arch, «COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY», 2023, 6, pp. 1 - 13 [Scientific article]Open Access

Rita Sorrentino, Kristian J. Carlson, Caley M. Orr, Annalisa Pietrobelli, Carla Figus, Shuyuan Li, Michele Conconi, Nicola Sancisi, Claudio Belvedere, Mingjie Zhu, Luca Fiorenza, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Tea Jashashvili, Mario Novak, Biren A. Patel, Thomas C. Prang, Scott A. Williams, Jaap P. P. Saers, Jay T. Stock, Timothy Ryan, Mark Myerson, Alberto Leardini, Jeremy DeSilva, Damiano Marchi, Stefano Benazzi, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Morphological variation of the hominin navicular bone from past to present: implications for the evolution of the medial longitudinal arch of the foot, in: 13th Annual ESHE Conference, 2023, pp. 119 - 120 (atti di: 13th Annual ESHE Conference, Aarhus, 21st to 23rd of September 2023) [Abstract]

Figus, Carla; Stephens, Nicholas B; Sorrentino, Rita; Bortolini, Eugenio; Arrighi, Simona; Higgins, Owen A; Lugli, Federico; Marciani, Giulia; Oxilia, Gregorio; Romandini, Matteo; Silvestrini, Sara; Baruffaldi, Fabio; Belcastro, Maria Giovanna; Bernardini, Federico; Festa, Anna; Hajdu, Tamás; Mateovics-László, Orsolya; Pap, Ildiko; Szeniczey, Tamás; Tuniz, Claudio; Ryan, Timothy M; Benazzi, Stefano, Morphologies in-between: The impact of the first steps on the human talus, «THE ANATOMICAL RECORD», 2023, 306, pp. 124 - 142 [Scientific article]Open Access