ILEANA MICARELLI

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2024 – 2027 RTDa Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Research and Teaching
2024 Registered as a qualified professional Anthropologist (I Class), Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (MiBAC) – Direzione Generale Educazione, Ricerca e Istituti Culturali, Italy
2022-2024 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Standard Fellowship - Horizon Europe 2021, Project: B-CARED Osteobiographical investigation of disability and care in Medieval Europe McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge (UK)
2021 – 2022 External lecturer for "Anthropology and biomedical statistics", Department of Applied Clinical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of L'Aquila (IT)
2021 – 2022 Post-doc “Osteobiography of the servants in Roman times”, Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome
2021 – Present Subject Matter Expert Human Bioarchaeology, Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome
2021 – Present Board member of Istituto Italiano di Antropologia (Italian Institute of Anthropology)
2020 – Registered as a qualified professional Archaeologist (I Class), Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (MiBAC) – Direzione Generale Educazione, Ricerca e Istituti Culturali, Italy
2020 – Present – Head of the osteological investigation, Tusculum (Rome, IT), Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IT)
2019 – 2021 – Post-doc “Population biology, diseases and mobility: Romans and Longobards in the post-classical era”, Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome
2016 Scholarship, Osteological investigation of the skeletal collection of the Neolithic site of Palese (IT) – Department of Classics, Sapienza, University of Rome

EDUCATION
21/02/2020 – PhD, Archaeology, curriculum post-classical archaeology and antiquities
Department of Classics, Sapienza University of Rome (SSD L-ANT/08 and SSD BIO/08)
At the origin of the trades: professional activities and social structures in Early-Medieval communities in Italy – A bioarchaeological model applied to two necropolises of Longobard culture (in Italian)
Graduation vote: Excellent 28/01/2016 – MA Hons, Archaeology
Department of Classics and Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome (SSD L- ANT/08 and SSD BIO/08)
The Longobard Necropolis of Povegliano Veronese (VR, VI-VIII sec.): first anthropological investigations and archaeological contextualization (in Italian)
Graduation vote: cum laude
29/04/2013 – I level Master, Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology and Forensic Anthropology
Universities of Bologna, Pisa and LABANOF of Milan
Effect of age on death, sex and occupational activity on markers of musculoskeletal stress (MSM) in the medieval skeletal sample of Leopoli-Cencelle (in Italian)
07/07/2011 – BA Hons, Archaeological Sciences
Department of Classics, Sapienza University of Rome (SSD L-ANT/08) The Infant Burials from Area IX of Leopoli-Cencelle (in Italian) Graduation vote: cum laude

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
2025 – Micarelli I., Di Matteo M., Touj F., Cancellieri E., Trabelsi K., Tafuri M.A., Boukhchim N., Rotunno R., Castorina F., Di Lernia S., Aouadi N. The medieval burial assemblage from Koudiet er Rammadiya, Northern Tunisia. An interdisciplinary bioarchaeological investigation. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 17, 97.
2024 – Micarelli I., Minozzi, S., Rodriguez, L., di Vincenzo, F., García-González, M.R., Giuffra, V., Paine, R.R., Carretero, J.M., Fornaciari, G., Moncel, M.H., Manzi, G., The oldest human fossil from Italy: reassessment of the femoral diaphysis from Venosa-Notarchirico in its Acheulean context, Quaternary Science Reviews, 334, p.108709.
2024 – Micarelli I., Tafuri, M.A., Tilley L. Disability and care in Western Europe during Medieval times: A bioarchaeological perspective, International Journal of Paleopathology. 44, 119-125.
2023 – Zeppilli C., Micarelli I., Bernardini S., Profico A., di Giannantonio S., Giostra C., Paine R.R., Manzi G., Tafuri M.A. Stabbed to death: an osteobiography example of violence among Longobards (Povegliano Veronese, Italy, 6th‑8th c CE), Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 15(54).
2023 – Micarelli, I., Strani, F., Bedecarrats, S., Bernardini, S., Paine, R.R., Bliquez, L., Giostra, G., Gazzaniga, V., Tafuri, M.A., Manzi, G. An unprecedented case of cranial surgery in Longobard Italy (6th-8th century) using a cruciform incision, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 33(2), pp.187-195.
2023 – Bernardini, S., Zeppilli, C., Micarelli, I., Goude, G., Sayle, K.L., Manzi, G., Tafuri M.A. Multi-isotope analysis of primary and secondary dentin as a mean to broaden intra-life dietary reconstruction. A case from Longobard Italy, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 33(2), pp.355-360.
2022 – Mecozzi, B., Buzi, C., Iannucci, A., Micarelli, I., Bona, F., Forti, L., Lembo, G., Manzi, G., Mazzini, I., Muttillo, B., Pieruccini, P., Ranaldo, F., Sigari, D., Sardella, R. New human fossil from latest Pleistocene levels of Grotta Romanelli (Apulia, southern Italy), Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 14(1), 1-4.
2021 – Profico, A., Zeppilli, C., Micarelli, I., Mondanaro, A., Raia, P., Marchi, D., Manzi, G., O'Higgins, P. Morphometric maps of bilateral asymmetry in the human humerus: an implementation in the R package, morphomap, Symmetry, 13(9), 1711
2021 – Bernardini, S., Asrat Mogesie, S., Micarelli, I., Manzi, G., Tafuri, M.A. Contribution to Longobard dietary studies: stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data from Castel Trosino (6th-8th CE, Ascoli Piceno, Central Italy), Data in Brief, 38, 107290.
2021 – Micarelli, I., Paine, R.R., Tafuri, M.A., Manzi, G., Conservation and reassessment of an overlooked skeletal collection preserved since 1901 at The Museum of Anthropology “G. Sergi”, Rome, Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage, 20(1), 65–78.
2021 – Ledger, M.L., Micarelli, I., Ward, D., Prowse, T.L., Carrolle, M., Killgrove, K., Rice, C., Franconi, F., Tafuri, M.A., Manzi, G., Mitchell, P. Gastrointestinal infection in Italy during the Roman and Longobard periods: a palaeoparasitological analysis of sediment from skeletal remains and sewer drains, International Journal of Paleopathology, 33, 61-71.
2020 – Buzi, C., Micarelli, I., Paine, R.R., Profico, A., Messineo, D., Tafuri, M.A., Manzi, G., Digital imaging techniques applied to a rare case of concha bullosa from an Early Medieval funerary area in central Italy, International Journal of Paleopathology, pp. 71-78.
2020 – Francisci, G., Micarelli, I., Iacumin, P., Castorina, F., Di Vincenzo, F., Di Matteo, M., Giostra, C., Manzi, G., Tafuri, M.A., Strontium and Oxygen Isotopes as indicators of Longobards mobility in Italy: an investigation at Povegliano Veronese, Scientific Reports, 10, 11678.
2019 – Micarelli, I., Paine, R.R., Tafuri, M.A., Manzi, G. 2019. A possible case of mycosis in a post-classical burial from La Selvicciola (Italy), International Journal of Paleopathology, 24, pp. 25-33.
2018 – Buzi, C., Micarelli, I., Profico, A., Conti, J., Grassetti, R., Cristiano, W., Di Vincenzo, F., Tafuri, M., Manzi,
G. Measuring the shape: performance evaluation of a photogrammetry improvement applied to the Neanderthal skull Saccopastore 1. Acta IMEKO 7(3), 79-85.
2018 – Profico, A., Bellucci, L., Buzi, C., Di Vincenzo, F., Micarelli, I., Strani, F., Tafuri, M. A., Manzi, G. - Virtual Anthropology and its application in cultural heritage studies. Studies in Conservation 64(6), 323-336.
2018 – Micarelli, I., Paine, R.R., Giostra, C., Tafuri M.A., Profico, A., Boggioni, M., Di Vincenzo, F., Massani, D., Papini, A., Manzi, G. 2018. Survival to amputation in pre-antibiotic era: a case study from a Longobard necropolis (6th-8th centuries AD), JASs Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 96, pp. 185-200.