Dr Ileana Micarelli
PhD
Dr Ileana Micarelli is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual European Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. After a Master in Bioarcheology and Msc in Medieval Archaeology, she started her PhD at the Department of Classics and Environmental Biology in Sapienza, University of Rome in 2016 and finished in 2020. During the last two years she has been Assistant Researcher at the Department of Environmental Biology researching on Bioarcheology, Paleopathology and, specially, focussing on themes related to Bioarcheology of Care and Disability.
From 2008 she has been involved in numerous archaeological campaigns ranging different time periods/areas from the Roman to Medieval Ages (Europe and Africa).
Her research question is based on the contextualization of the health conditions with lifestyles and occupational activities. Her research area focuses on the aspects related to care and disability in the past communities, specifically in the Middle Ages time frame. Her research aims to counteract the invisibility of disabled persons by drawing on the abundance of skeletal information available.
During her MSCA project, namely B-CARED, she continues to improve her research profile as archaeologist and osteologist by specializing in the Archaeological Theory related to Disability and Care in past populations.
Research Interests
- Bioarchaeology
- Bioarchaeology of Disability and Care
- Osteology
- Paleopathology
- Medieval and Post-classical Archaeology
Teaching And Professional Interests
She is passionate to her research, and she communicated this from the beginning of her PhD running courses on Bioarchaeology and Osteology to Bachelor and Master’s students in Archaeology.
During the academic year 2021-2022 Dr Micarelli have co-tutored the course HumBio – Human Bioarchaeology in Sapienza and she have been External Lecturer for "Anthropology and biomedical statistics” at the Department of Applied Clinical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of L'Aquila (IT).
Awards
- Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, 2022-2024
- Mention of Merit for Scientific Research, Minerva Prize, Sapienza, University of Rome
Links to online publications, articles or other work
In press – Special Issue on "Disability and care in Western Europe during Medieval times: a bioarchaeological perspective”; Guest Edited by Ileana Micarelli, Lorna Tilley, Mary Anne Tafuri, International Journal of Paleopathology.
2022 – D’Anastasio, R., Micarelli, I., chapter “Bioarchaeologia, Paleopatologia”, section “03 – Antropologia dello scheletro” Eds. M.G. Belcastro and G. Manzi. In Manuale di Antropologia Eds. L. Sineo and J. Moggi Cecchi, DeAgostini, Milano.
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.
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 – 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.
