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Maria Giovanna Belcastro

Full Professor

Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences

Academic discipline: BIOS-03/B Anthropology

Publications

Carla Figus, Kristian J Carlson, Rita Sorrentino, Eugenio Bortolini, Mario Novak, Fabio Baruffaldi, Federico Bernardini, Igor Erjavec, Anna Festa, Claudio Tuniz, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Emma Pomeroy, Markus Bastir, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Timothy M Ryan, Stefano Benazzi, The developing morphology of a juvenile Neanderthal: preliminary morphometric results of the Roc de Marsal infant talus, in: ESSERI UMANI, 2023(atti di: XXV Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione Antropologica Italiana, Torino, 6-8 Settembre 2023) [Poster]

Carla Figus; Kristian J Carlson; Rita Sorrentino; Eugenio Bortolini; Mario Novak; Fabio Baruffaldi; Federico Bernardini; Igor Erjavec; Anna Festa; Claudio Tuniz; Maria Giovanna Belcastro; Emma Pomeroy; Markus Bastir; Jean-Jacques Hublin; Timothy M Ryan; Stefano Benazzi, The developing morphology of a juvenile Neanderthal: preliminary morphometric results of the Roc de Marsal infant talus., in: 13th Annual Meeting of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution Abstracts Aarhus, 21-22 September 2023, 2023, pp. 1 - 135 (atti di: 13th Annual ESHE Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, 20-24 September) [Contribution to conference proceedings]

Quagliariello, Andrea; Modi, Alessandra; Innocenti, Gabriel; Zaro, Valentina; Conati Barbaro, Cecilia; Ronchitelli, Annamaria; Boschin, Francesco; Cavazzuti, Claudio; Dellù, Elena; Radina, Francesca; Sperduti, Alessandra; Bondioli, Luca; Ricci, Stefano; Lognoli, Miriam; Belcastro, Maria Giovanna; Mariotti, Valentina; Caramelli, David; Mariotti Lippi, Marta; Cristiani, Emanuela; Martino, Maria Elena; Muntoni, Italo Maria; Lari, Martina, Ancient oral microbiomes support gradual Neolithic dietary shifts towards agriculture, «NATURE COMMUNICATIONS», 2022, 13, Article number: 6927 , pp. 1 - 14 [Scientific article]Open Access

Piccirilli Erica, Sorrentino Rita, Bortolini Eugenio, Lugli Federico, Cavazzuti Claudio, Conti Sara, Silvestrini Sara, Gottarelli Antonio, Belcastro Maria Giovanna, Hajdu Tamás, Benazzi Stefano, Biological affinities of Celtic communities from Hungary with Bronze and Iron Age Italian contexts: new insights on Celtic migration in Italy through the analysis of non-metric dental traits, in: Il prossimo uomo. Storia naturale di geni, forme e funzioni fra passato e futuro dell'umanità., 2022, pp. 125 - 126 (atti di: XXIV Congresso Associazione Antropologica Italiana, Chieti, 7-10 settembre 2022) [Abstract]

Gasparini, A; Lugli, F; Silvestrini, S; Pietrobelli, A; Marchetta, I; Benazzi, S; Belcastro, MG, Biological sex VS. Archaeological Gender: Enamel peptide analysis of the horsemen of the Early Middle age necropolises of Campochiaro (Molise, Italy), «JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE: REPORTS», 2022, 41, Article number: 103337 , pp. 1 - 9 [Scientific article]Open Access

Pietrobelli, Annalisa; Sorrentino, Rita; Notariale, Veronica; Durante, Stefano; Benazzi, Stefano; Marchi, Damiano; Belcastro, Maria Giovanna, Comparability of skeletal fibulae surfaces generated by different source scanning (dual-energy CT scan vs. high resolution laser scanning) and 3D geometric morphometric validation, «JOURNAL OF ANATOMY», 2022, 241, pp. 667 - 682 [Scientific article]Open Access

Figus, Carla; Stephens, Nicholas B.; Sorrentino, Rita; Bortolini, Eugenio; Arrighi, Simona; Lugli, Federico; Marciani, Giulia; Oxilia, Gregorio; Romandini, Matteo; Silvestrini, Sara; Baruffaldi, Fabio; Belcastro, Maria Giovanna; Bernardini, Federico; Erjavec, Igor; Festa, Anna; Hajdu, Tamás; Mateovics‐László, Orsolya; Novak, Mario; Pap, Ildikó; Szeniczey, Tamás; Tuniz, Claudio; Ryan, Timothy M.; Benazzi, Stefano, Human talar ontogeny: Insights from morphological and trabecular changes during postnatal growth, «AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY», 2022, 179, pp. 211 - 228 [Scientific article]Open Access

Venturi Margherita; Melucci Dora; Zappoli Sergio; Gargini Alessandro; Mantovani Barbara; Belcastro Maria Giovanna; Fanti Federico; Vannini Ira; Panciroli Chiara; Piastra Stefano; Ciardi Marco, Laurea Magistrale in Didattica e Comunicazione delle Scienze Naturali, in: Professione Insegnante. Quali strategie per la formazione?, Napoli, Editore Guida Editori srl, 2022, pp. 1519 - 1524 [Chapter or essay]

Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Annalisa Pietrobelli, Teresa Nicolosi, Marco Milella, Valentina Mariotti, Scientific and Ethical Aspects of Identified Skeletal Series: The Case of the Documented Human Osteological Collections of the University of Bologna (Northern Italy), «FORENSIC SCIENCES», 2022, 2, pp. 349 - 361 [Scientific article]Open Access

Pietrobelli A.; Sorrentino R.; Durante S.; Marchi D.; Benazzi S.; Belcastro M.G., Sexual Dimorphism in the Fibular Extremities of Italians and South Africans of Identified Modern Human Skeletal Collections: A Geometric Morphometric Approach, «BIOLOGY», 2022, 11, Article number: 1079 , pp. 1 - 24 [Scientific article]Open Access

Pietrobelli, Annalisa; Marchi, Damiano; Belcastro, Maria Giovanna, The relationship between bipedalism and growth: A metric assessment in a documented modern skeletal collection (Certosa Collection, Bologna, Italy), «AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY», 2022, 177, pp. 669 - 689 [Scientific article]Open Access

Sorrentino, Rita; Carlson, Kristian J.; Figus, Carla; Pietrobelli, Annalisa; Stephens, Nicholas B.; DeMars, Lily J. D.; Saers, Jaap P. P.; Armando, Jessica; Bettuzzi, Matteo; Guarnieri, Tiziana; Oxilia, Gregorio; Vazzana, Antonino; Parr, William; Turley, Kevin; Morigi, Maria Pia; Stock, Jay T.; Ryan, Timothy M.; Benazzi, Stefano; Marchi, Damiano; Belcastro, Maria Giovanna, The talar morphology of a hypochondroplasic dwarf: A case study from the Italian Late Antique period, «INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY», 2022, 32, pp. 429 - 443 [Scientific article]Open Access

Stefano, Vanin; Morgan, Azzoni; Giorgia, Giordani; Giovanna, Belcastro Maria, Bias and potential misinterpretations in the analysis of insects collected from human remains of archaeological interest, «ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES», 2021, 13, Article number: 201 , pp. 1 - 6 [Scientific article]

Marino R.; Tanganelli V.; Pietrobelli A.; Belcastro M.G., Evaluation of the auricular surface method for subadult sex estimation on Italian modern (19th to 20th century) identified skeletal collections, «AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY», 2021, 174, pp. 792 - 803 [Scientific article]

Oxilia G.; Menghi Sartorio J.C.; Bortolini E.; Zampirolo G.; Papini A.; Boggioni M.; Martini S.; Marciani F.; Arrighi S.; Figus C.; Marciani G.; Romandini M.; Silvestrini S.; Pedrosi M.E.; Mori T.; Riga A.; Kullmer O.; Sarig R.; Fiorenza L.; Giganti M.; Sorrentino R.; Belcastro M.G.; Cecchi J.M.; Benazzi S., Exploring directional and fluctuating asymmetry in the human palate during growth, «AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY», 2021, 175, pp. 847 - 864 [Scientific article]Open Access