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Maria Giovanna Belcastro

Full Professor

Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences

Academic discipline: BIOS-03/B Anthropology

Publications

Mariotti, V.; Tanganelli, V.; Morigi, M. P.; Bettuzzi, M.; Pappalardo, L.; Modi, A.; Zaro, V.; Reiter, E.; Posth, C.; Caramelli, D.; Lari, M.; Barone, S.; Fedi, M.; Liccioli, L.; Govi, E.; Belcastro, M. G., An integrated archaeological and anthropological approach to investigating human sacrifice among Etruscans, «ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES», 2025, 17, Article number: 141 , pp. 1 - 23 [Scientific article]

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]

Piccirilli, Erica; Sorrentino, Rita; Seghi, Francesca; Vazzana, Antonino; Belcastro, Maria Giovanna; Talamo, Sahra; Harvati, Katerina; Bettuzzi, Matteo; Morigi, Maria Pia; Weber, Gerhard; Capecchi, Giulia; Spagnolo, Vincenzo; Martini, Ivan; Moroni, Adriana; Boschin, Francesco; Ricci, Stefano; Benazzi, Stefano, Data to perform geometric morphometric analyses of the Neanderthal upper first permanent molar GP1 from Grotta del Poggio, 2025. [Database]

Collina, Federica; Sorrentino, Rita; Chiara Malavasi, Maria; Iannucci, Alessandro; Belcastro, Maria Giovanna, From Digitization to Virtual Exhibition of the University of Bologna’s “Collezioni di Antropologia”, in: Digital Heritage 2025, 2025(atti di: Digital Heritage 2025, Siena, 08/09/2025 - 12/09/2025) [Poster]

Belcastro, Maria Giovanna; Sorrentino, Rita; Mameli, Davide; Pietrobelli, Annalisa; Nicolosi, Teresa; Mariotti, Valentina; Figus, Carla; Lodolo, Elisa; Forni, Laura; Ratti, Stefano; Rosas, Antonio; Ríos Frutos, Luis Francisco; Colombo, Antony; Maglio, Melania; Martini, Lucia; Marchiori, Gregorio; Giavaresi, Gianluca; Fini, Milena, The Digitization of Human Skeletal Collections: New Challenges and Perspectives, «HERITAGE», 2025, 8, pp. 1 - 12 [Scientific article]

Sorrentino, R.; Pietrobelli, A.; Mameli, D.; Nicolosi, T.; Belcastro, M. G., The extent of the hip bone sexual dimorphism in two Italian coeval modern skeletal samples, «SCIENTIFIC REPORTS», 2025, 15, Article number: 2439 , pp. 1 - 13 [Scientific article]Open Access

Piccirilli, Erica; Sorrentino, Rita; Seghi, Francesca; Vazzana, Antonino; Belcastro, Maria Giovanna; Talamo, Sahra; Harvati, Katerina; Bettuzzi, Matteo; Morigi, Maria Pia; Weber, Gerhard; Capecchi, Giulia; Spagnolo, Vincenzo; Martini, Ivan; Moroni, Adriana; Boschin, Francesco; Ricci, Stefano; Benazzi, Stefano, The Human Remains From the MIS 6 Site of Grotta Del Poggio (Cilento, Southern Italy): A Taxonomic and Chronological Reassessment, «AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY», 2025, 188, pp. 1 - 20 [Scientific article]

Figus, Carla; Carlson, Kristian J; Bortolini, Eugenio; Saers, Jaap; Seghi, Francesca; Sorrentino, Rita; Bernardini, Federico; Vazzana, Antonino; Erjavec, Igor; Novak, Mario; Tuniz, Claudio; Belcastro, Maria Giovanna; Stock, Jay; Ryan, Timothy M; Benazzi, Stefano, The Ontogeny of the Human Calcaneus: Insights From Morphological and Trabecular Changes During Postnatal Growth, «AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY», 2025, 186, Article number: e70007 , pp. 1 - 24 [Scientific article]Open Access

Sorrentino, R.; Pietrobelli, A.; Mameli, D.; Mariotti, V.; Nicolosi, T.; Belcastro, M. G., The Virtual Database of the Documented Human Osteological Collection (DHOC) of the Certosa Cemetery of Bologna (Italy, 19th-20th Century), «AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY», 2025, 186, Article number: e25065 , pp. 1 - 10 [Scientific article]Open Access

Conconi, Michele; Sorrentino, Rita; Antoni, Alessandro; Di Lorenzo, Martina; Volpe, Silvia; Nicolosi, Teresa; Pietrobelli, Annalisa; Leardini, Alberto; Belvedere, Claudio; Belcastro, MARIA GIOVANNA; Sancisi, Nicola, A method for the reconstruction of subtalar kinematics from ct scan: toward an evolutionary perspective, in: Proceedings of ESB 2024, 2024, pp. 1 - 1 (atti di: ESB 2024, Edinbourgh, 30 June - 3 July 2024) [Contribution to conference proceedings]

Voisin, Jean-Luc; Belcastro, Maria Giovanna; Pietrobelli, Annalisa; Condemi, Silvana, A new thumb phalanx from Moula Guercy (France): description and considerations of Neandertal hand use, «COMPTES RENDUS PALÉVOL», 2024, 23, pp. 293 - 323 [Scientific article]

Mameli, D; Pietrobelli, A; Sorrentino, R; Nicolosi, T; Mariotti, V; Belcastro, Mg, Entheseal variation and locomotor behavior during growth, «JOURNAL OF ANATOMY», 2024, 245, pp. 137 - 155 [Scientific article]Open Access

Piccirilli, E.; Sorrentino, R.; Lugli, F.; Bortolini, E.; Silvestrini, S.; Cavazzuti, C.; Conti, S.; Czifra, S.; Gyenesei, K.; Köhler, K.; Tankó, K.; Vazzana, A.; Jerem, E.; Cipriani, A.; Gottarelli, A.; Belcastro, M. G.; Hajdu, T.; Benazzi, S., Erratum: Correction: New insights on Celtic migration in Hungary and Italy through the analysis of non-metric dental traits (PloS one (2023) 18 10 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293090), «PLOS ONE», 2024, 19, pp. 1 - 1 [Scientific article]

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