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Maria Giovanna Belcastro

Full Professor

Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences

Academic discipline: BIOS-03/B Anthropology

Publications

Belcastro, Maria Giovanna; Nicolosi, Teresa; Sorrentino, Rita; Mariotti, Valentina; Pietrobelli, Annalisa; Bettuzzi, Matteo; Morigi, Maria Pia; Benazzi, Stefano; Talamo, Sahra; Miari, Monica; Preti, Nevio; Castagna, Lucia; Pisani, Luca; Grandi, Luca; Baraldi, Pietro; Zannini, Paolo; Scarponi, Daniele; De Waele, Jo, Unveiling an odd fate after death: The isolated Eneolithic cranium discovered in the Marcel Loubens Cave (Bologna, Northern Italy), «PLOS ONE», 2021, 16, Article number: e0247306 , pp. 1 - 30 [Scientific article]Open Access

Milella M.; Belcastro M.G.; Mariotti V.; Nikita E., Estimation of adult age-at-death from entheseal robusticity: A test using an identified Italian skeletal collection, «AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY», 2020, 173, pp. 190 - 199 [Scientific article]

Sorrentino, Rita; Belcastro, Maria Giovanna; Figus, Carla; Stephens, Nicholas B; Turley, Kevin; Harcourt-Smith, William; Ryan, Timothy M; Benazzi, Stefano, Exploring sexual dimorphism of the modern human talus through geometric morphometric methods, «PLOS ONE», 2020, 15, Article number: e0229255 , pp. 1 - 17 [Scientific article]Open Access

Sorrentino, R.; Carlson, K. J.; Bortolini, E.; Minghetti, C.; Feletti, F.; Fiorenza, L.; Frost, S.; Jashashvili, T.; Parr, W.; Shaw, C.; Su, A.; Turley, K.; Wroe, S.; Ryan, T. M.; Belcastro, M. G.; Benazzi, S., Morphometric analysis of the hominin talus: Evolutionary and functional implications, «JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION», 2020, 142, Article number: 102747 , pp. 1 - 21 [Scientific article]Open Access

Mariotti, Valentina; Muntoni, Italo M.; Belcastro, Maria Giovanna, New insights into the funerary rituals of the Neolithic site of Passo di Corvo (Apulia, Italy): The study of the human remains, «JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE: REPORTS», 2020, 34, Article number: 102643 , pp. 1 - 14 [Scientific article]

Serrangeli M., Sorrentino R., Belcastro M.G., Benazzi S., Feeney R.N.M.,, Sexual dimorphism in the human calcaneus using 3D geometric morphometric methods, in: AAPA 2020, 2020(atti di: American Association of Physical Anthropologists - 89th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles (CA, USA), April 15-18, 2020) [Poster]

Pietrobelli, Annalisa; Mariotti, Valentina; Fusari, Samantha; Gasparini, Anthony; Bettuzzi, Matteo; Morigi, Maria Pia; Belcastro, Maria Giovanna;, Syphilis in an Italian medieval jewish community: A bioarchaeological and cultural perspective, «INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PALEOPATHOLOGY», 2020, 30, pp. 85 - 97 [Scientific article]

Sorrentino, Rita; Stephens, Nicholas B.; Carlson, Kristian J.; Figus, Carla; Fiorenza, Luca; Frost, Stephen; Harcourt‐smith, William; Parr, William; Saers, Jaap; Turley, Kevin; Wroe, Stephen; Belcastro, Maria G.; Ryan, Timothy M.; Benazzi, Stefano, The influence of mobility strategy on the modern human talus, «AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY», 2020, 171, pp. 456 - 469 [Scientific article]Open Access

VIRGINIA VANNI, FEDERICO FANTI, MARIA GIOVANNA BELCASTRO, The South American Mammal collection at the Museo Geologico Giovanni Capellini (Bologna, Italy), «COLLIGO», 2020, 3, pp. 1 - 10 [Scientific article]Open Access

Belcastro, Maria Giovanna; Mariotti, Valentina; Pietrobelli, Annalisa; Sorrentino, Rita; García-Tabernero, Antonio; Estalrrich, Almudena; Rosas, Antonio, The study of the lower limb entheses in the Neanderthal sample from El Sidrón (Asturias, Spain): How much musculoskeletal variability did Neanderthals accumulate?, «JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION», 2020, 141, Article number: 102746 , pp. 1 - 15 [Scientific article]

Bortolini E, Sorrentino R, Lugli F, Conti S, Piccirilli E, Arrighi S, Badino F, Buti L, Figus C, Marciani G, Oxilia G, Romandini M, Silvestrini S, Vazzana A, Gabanini G, Penzo A, Gottarelli A, Cipriani A, Belcastro MG, Benazzi S, Assessing biological and cultural admixture in the Etruscan-Celtic population of Monterenzio Vecchio and Monte Bibele (Bologna, Italy)., in: Associazione Antropologica Italiana, Anthropology: what are the next questions?, 2019, pp. 42 - 42 (atti di: XXIII Congresso dell'Associazione Antropologica Italiana, Padova, Settembre 4-6, 2019) [Abstract]Open Access

Milella, Marco; Gerling, Claudia; Doppler, Thomas; Kuhn, Thomas; Cooper, Matthew; Mariotti, Valentina; Belcastro, Maria Giovanna; Ponce de León, Marcia S.; Zollikofer, Christoph P.E., Different in death: Different in life? Diet and mobility correlates of irregular burials in a Roman necropolis from Bologna (Northern Italy, 1st–4th century CE), «JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE: REPORTS», 2019, 27, pp. 101926 - 101926 [Scientific article]

Milella, Marco; Gerling, Claudia; Doppler, Thomas; Kuhn, Thomas; Cooper, Matthew; Mariotti, Valentina; Belcastro, Maria Giovanna; Ponce de León, Marcia S.; Zollikofer, Christoph P. E., Different in death: Different in life? Diet and mobility correlates of irregular burials in a Roman necropolis from Bologna (Northern Italy, 1st–4th century CE), «JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE: REPORTS», 2019, 27, pp. 101926 - 101942 [Scientific article]

Di Stefano, Valentina; Belcastro, Maria Giovanna; Curina, Renata;, "Etica di Comunità, Tutela e Scienza": il cimitero ebraico di Bologna, in: Eticamente Sapiens. dallo scavo alla valorizzazione dei resti umani Giornata di studi - Bari, 17-18 giugno 2019, 2019, pp. 2 - 2 (atti di: Eticamente Sapiens: dallo scavo alla valorizzazione dei resti umani. Giornata di studi, Bari, 17-18 giugno 2019) [Abstract]

Gabanini G, Figus C, Sorrentino R, Stephens NB, Belcastro MG, Harcourt-Smith W, Ryan TM, Benazzi S., Exploring age-related variations during calcaneal growth, «AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY», 2019, 168, pp. 80 - 80 [Abstract]Open Access