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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]

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

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]

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

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]