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Maria Giovanna Belcastro

Full Professor

Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences

Academic discipline: BIOS-03/B Anthropology

Publications

Sorrentino R., Stephens N.B., Carlson K., Figus C., Fiorenza L., Frost S., Harcourt-Smith W., Parr W., Saers J., Turley K., Wroe S., Belcastro M.G., Ryan T.M., Benazzi S., The modern human talus affected by cultural and behavioral factors, in: Associazione Antropologica Italiana, Anthropology: what are the next questions?, 2019, pp. 73 - 74 (atti di: XXIII Congresso dell'Associazione Antropologica Italiana, Padova, Settembre 4-6, 2019) [Abstract]Open Access

Carla Figus, Nicholas B Stephens, Eugenio Bortolini, Rita Sorrentino, Simona Arrighi, Federica Badino, Federico Lugli, Giulia Marciani, Gregorio Oxilia, Matteo Romandini, Lucia Martina Scalise, Sara Silvestrini, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Timothy M Ryan, Stefano Benazzi, The ontogeny of bipedalism: insights from trabecular changes during growth., in: Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution 8, 2019, pp. 60 - 60 (atti di: European Society for the study of Human Evolution ESHE 9th Annual Meeting, Liège, Belgium, 19th-21st September, 2019) [Abstract]Open Access

Belcastro M.G.; Pietrobelli A.; Rastelli E.; Iannuzzi V.; Toselli S.; Mariotti V., Variations in epiphyseal fusion and persistence of the epiphyseal line in the appendicular skeleton of two identified modern (19th–20th c.) adult Portuguese and Italian samples, «AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY», 2019, 169, pp. 448 - 463 [Scientific article]

Affinito S, Mariotti V, Belcastro MG., A case of tuberculosis of the hip joint in an adolescent of a modern (19th-20th c.) Italian identified skeletal collection, in: 22nd European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Zagreb, 28 August-1 September 2018, 2018(atti di: 22nd European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Zagreb, 28 agosto-1 settembre 2018) [Poster]

Colombo A, Stephens N, Tsegai Z, Bettuzzi M, Morigi Mp, Belcastro MG, Hublin J-J, Analyse micro-architecturale du développement de la marche bipède chez le jeune enfant : résultats préliminaires, in: 1843èmes Journées de la Société d’anthropologie de Paris (SAP), 24-26 janvier 2018, 2018, pp. 1 - 2 (atti di: 1843èmes Journées de la Société d’anthropologie de Paris (SAP), 24-26 janvier 2018, Poitiers, 24-26 gennaio 2018) [Abstract]

Schuenemann, Verena J.; Avanzi, Charlotte; Krause-Kyora, Ben; Seitz, Alexander; Herbig, Alexander; Inskip, Sarah; Bonazzi, Marion; Reiter, Ella; Urban, Christian; Dangvard Pedersen, Dorthe; Taylor, G. Michael; Singh, Pushpendra; Stewart, Graham R.; Velemínský, Petr; Likovsky, Jakub; Marcsik, Antónia; Molnár, Erika; Pálfi, György; Mariotti, Valentina; Riga, Alessandro; Belcastro, M. Giovanna; Boldsen, Jesper L.; Nebel, Almut; Mays, Simon; Donoghue, Helen D.; Zakrzewski, Sonia; Benjak, Andrej; Nieselt, Kay; Cole, Stewart T.; Krause, Johannes, Ancient genomes reveal a high diversity of Mycobacterium leprae in medieval Europe, «PLOS PATHOGENS», 2018, 14, Article number: e1006997 , pp. e1006997 - 1 [Scientific article]Open Access

Belcastro M. G., Curina R., Di Stefano V., Mariotti V., Pietrobelli A., Sorrentino R., Rizzo V., Modi A., Lari M., Caramelli D., Archaeoanthropological study of the Medieval Jewish cemetery of Bologna (Italy): an instrument of cultural heritage valorisation and memory construction, in: EAA, 2018, pp. 162 - 163 (atti di: 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona, September 5-8) [Abstract]

Cardoso Hfv, Harrington L, Nelson J, Holland E, Tanganelli V, Belcastro MG, Are social inequalities, embodied as Growth Disparities in Children?, in: 87TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS, 2018(atti di: American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) 87th annual meeting, Austin, TX, 11-14 aprile 2018) [Poster]

Joan, Viciano; Tanga, Carmen; Giovanna Belcastro, Maria; D'Anastasio, Ruggero, Estimacion del sexo mediante odontometria en una poblacion italiana contemporanea: aplication en individuos subadultos, in: I Congreso International de Odontologia Legal y Forense Universidad Arturo Prat; X Reunion Sociedad de Odontoestomatologos Forenses Iberoamericanos - SOFIA, 2018, pp. 1 - 1 (atti di: I Congreso International de Odontologia Legal y Forense Universidad Arturo Prat; X Reunion Sociedad de Odontoestomatologos Forenses Iberoamericanos - SOFIA, Iquique (Chile), 4-6 ottobre 2018) [Abstract]

Sorrentino R., Minghetti C., Parr W., Turley K., Wroe S., Shaw C., Su A., Fiorenza L., Feletti F., Jashashvili T., Frost S., Carlson K. J., Belcastro M. G., Ryan T., Benazzi S., Evolutionary timing and relationships of the talar facets: implication for hominin talus, in: PESHE 2018, 2018, pp. 180 - 180 (atti di: European Society for the study of Human Evolution - ESHE, 8th Annual Meeting, Faro, Portugal, 13-15 September 2018) [Abstract]

Serrangeli M. C., Sorrentino R., Figus C., Belcastro M. G., Benazzi S., Feeney R. N.M., Exploring sexual dimorphism in calcaneal shape through GMM: Preliminary results of the modern human skeletal collection of the Certosa Cemetery (Bologna, Italy), in: IAI, 2018, pp. 10 - 11 (atti di: Annual Conference 2018 – Curriculum Vitae Rita Sorrentino 5 Institute of Archaeologist of Ireland, Sligo (Ireland), March 23-24) [Abstract]

Belcastro M.G., Mariotti V., Pietrobelli A., Sorrentino R., Estalrrich A., Garcia-Tabernero A., Rosas A., How much musculoskeletal variability did Neandertals accumulate? The study of the lower limbs entheses of the Neandertal sample from El Sidrón, in: PESHE 2018, 2018(atti di: European Society for the study of Human Evolution - ESHE, 8th Annual Meeting, Faro, Portugal, 13-15 September 2018) [Poster]

Belcastro, MG, L’avanzamento degli studi antropologici su Farinelli: la ricostruzione virtuale del cranio di Farinelli., in: Convegno di studi interdisciplinari "Mito, Storia e Sogno di Farinelli" (Centro Studi Farinelli), 15-18 novembre 2018, Bologna, 2018, pp. 1 - 1 (atti di: "Mito, Storia e Sogno di Farinelli", Bologna, 15-18 novembre 2018) [Abstract]

Belcastro MG, Castagna L, Grazioli F, Preti N, Salvo P, Venturi M, Nota preliminare sul rinvenimento di un cranio umano nella Grotta Marcel Loubens (S. Lazzaro di Savena, BO), in: “… nel sotterraneo Mondo” La frequentazione delle grotte in Emilia-Romagna tra archeologia, storia e speleologia, Bologna, Federazione Speleologica Regionale dell'Emilia-Romagna, 2018, pp. 85 - 86 [Chapter or essay]

Milella M, Gerling C, Bourbou C, Doppler T, Belcastro MG, Mariotti V, Alt KW, De Leon MP, Zollikofer CPE., Outsiders within? A Bioarchaeological Perspective of Prone Burials in Roman Populations from Italy and Switzerland (1st-3rd c. AD), in: 10e Rencontre du Groupe d’Anthropologie et d’Archéologie Funéraire: RENCONTRE AUTOUR DU CORPS MALADE prise en charge et traitement funéraire des individus souffrants à travers les siècles, 23-25 mai 2018, Bordeaux, 2018, pp. 32 - 32 (atti di: 10e Rencontre du Groupe d’Anthropologie et d’Archéologie Funéraire RENCONTRE AUTOUR DU CORPS MALADE prise en charge et traitement funéraire des individus souffrants à travers les siècles, Bordeaux, 23-25 maggio 2018) [Abstract]