FABIO DI VINCENZO

DI VINCENZO FABIO
Researcher unique identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2830-6971
URL for web site https://web.uniroma1.it/dip_dba302/personale_dip/ass
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• PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ongoing Curator of the Anthropological collections of the Natural History Museum of Florence, (Italy)
2013 –2020 Postdoctoral fellow and teaching assistant at the Department of Environmental Biology of Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

• EDUCATION

2009-2012 PhD in Animal Biology (thesis in Anthropological Sciences)
Dep. of Animal and Human Biology. Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
2009 ‘Laurea’ (= B.Sc + M.Sc) degree in Natural Sciences (spec. in palaeontology) cum laude
Dep. of Animal and Human Biology. Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

• PUBLICATIONS

Edited Book
Di Paolo D.L, Di Vincenzo F, De Petrillo F. (2018) Evolution of Primate Social Cognition. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-93775-5

Science Book (popular)
Di Vincenzo F, Manzi G. (2018). Qualcosa di molto speciale. Come e quando siamo diventati umani. Roma: Espera. ISBN 978-8899847159

Peer-reviewed articles
Profico, A., Buzi, C., Di Vincenzo, F., Boggioni, M., Borsato, A., Boschian, G., ... & Manzi, G. (2023). Virtual excavation and analysis of the early Neanderthal cranium from Altamura (Italy). Communications Biology, 6(1), 316.
Hu, W., Hao, Z., Du, P., Di Vincenzo, F., Manzi, G., Cui, J., ... & Li, H. (2023). Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition. Science, 381(6661), 979-984.
Di Vincenzo, F., & Manzi, G. (2023). Homo heidelbergensis as the Middle Pleistocene common ancestor of Denisovans, Neanderthals and modern humans. Journal of Mediterranean Earth Sciences, 15.
Anagnostou, P., Montinaro, F., Sazzini, M., Di Vincenzo, F., & Bisol, G. D. (2022). From the Alps to the Mediterranean and beyond: genetics, environment, culture and the" impossible beauty" of Italy. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 100, 267-294.
Riga, A., Mori, T., Di Vincenzo, F., Pasquinelli, F., Carpi, R., & Moggi-Cecchi, J. (2022, May). 3D methods for the anthropological cultural heritage. In International Conference Florence Heri-Tech: the Future of Heritage Science and Technologies (pp. 15-30). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Watanabe, M., Risi, R., Tafuri, M. A., Silvestri, V., D’Andrea, D., Raimondo, D Raimondo, S Rea, F Di Vincenzo…& Gnessi, L. (2021). Bone density and genomic analysis unfold cold adaptation mechanisms of ancient inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 23290.
Buzi, C., Profico, A., Di Vincenzo, F., Harvati, K., Melchionna, M., Raia, P., & Manzi, G. (2021). Retrodeformation of the Steinheim cranium: Insights into the evolution of Neanderthals. Symmetry, 13(9), 1611.
Buzi C, Di Vincenzo F, Profico A, Manzi G (2021) The pre-modern human fossil record in Italy from the Middle to the Late Pleistocene: an updated reappraisal. Alpine and Meditterranean Quaternary 34(1):1-16
Hershkovitz I, May H, Sarig R, Pokhojaev A, Grimaud-Hervé D, Bruner E, Fornai C, Quam R, Arsuaga JL, Krenn VA, Martinón-Torres M, Bermúdez de Castro JM, Martín-Francés L, Slon V, Albessard-Ball L, Vialet A, Schüler T, Manzi G, Profico A, Di Vincenzo F, Weber GW, Zaidner Y (2021) A Middle Pleistocene Homo from Nesher Ramla, Israel. Science 372(6549):1424-1428
Riga A, Boggioni M, Papini A, Buzi C, Profico A, Di Vincenzo F, Marchi D, Moggi-Cecchi J, Manzi G (2020) In situ observations on the dentition and oral cavity of the Neanderthal skeleton from Altamura (Italy). Plos One 15(12):e0241713
Francisci, G, Micarelli, I, Iacumin, P, Castorina, F, Di Vincenzo, F, Di Matteo, M, Giostra, C, Manzi, G, & Tafuri, M. A. (2020). Strontium and oxygen isotopes as indicators of Longobards mobility in Italy: an investigation at Povegliano Veronese. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1-12.
Melchionna, M, Profico, A, Castiglione, S, Sansalone, G, Serio, C, Mondanaro, A, Di Febbraro, M, Rook, L, Pandolfi, L, Di Vincenzo, F, Manzi, G. & Raia, P. (2020). From smart apes to human brain boxes. A uniquely derived brain shape in late hominins clade. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, 273.
Piras P, Profico A, Pandolfi L, Raia P, Di Vincenzo F, Mondanaro A, Castiglione S, Varano V (2020) Current Options for Visualization of Local Deformation in Modern Shape Analysis Applied to Paleobiological Case Studies. Frontiers in Earth Science 8(66)
Bruner E, Di Vincenzo F, Manzi G (2019) The circle of Ganovce: natural history of an endocast. Journal of Anthropological Sciences 97:135-138
Di Vincenzo F, Churchill SE, Buzi C, Profico A, Tafuri MA, Micheli M, Caramelli D, Manzi G (2019) Distinct among Neanderthals: The scapula of the skeleton from Altamura, Italy. Quaternary Science Reviews 217:76-88
Gunz P, Tilot AK, Wittfeld K, Teumer A, Shapland CY, van Erp TGM, Dannemann M, Vernot B, Neubauer S, Guadalupe T, Fernández G, Brunner HG, Enard W, Fallon J, Hosten N, Völker U, Profico A, Di Vincenzo F, Manzi G, Kelso J, Pourcain BS, Hublin J-J, Franke B, Pääbo S, Macciardi F, Grabe HJ, Fisher SE (2019) Neandertal introgression sheds light on modern human endocranial globularity. Current Biology 29(1):120-127. e125
Profico A, Tafuri MA, Di Vincenzo F, Ricci F, Ottini L, Ventura L, Fornaciari G, Di Lernia S, Manzi G (2019) Medical imaging as a taphonomic tool. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 10:144-156
Profico A, Bellucci L, Buzi C, Di Vincenzo F, Micarelli I, Strani F, Tafuri MA, Manzi G (2019) Virtual anthropology and its application in cultural heritage studies. Studies in Conservation:1-14
Buzi C, Micarelli I, Profico A, Conti J, Grassetti R, Cristiano W, Di Vincenzo F, Tafuri MA, Manzi G (2018) Measuring the shape: performance evaluation of a photogrammetry improvement applied to the Neanderthal skull Saccopastore 1. ACTA IMEKO 7(3):79-85
Di Vincenzo F, Profico A, Bernardini F, Cerroni V, Dreossi D, Schlager S, Zaio P, Benazzi S, Biddittu I, Rubini M, Tuniz C, Manzi G (2017) Digital reconstruction of the Ceprano calvarium (Italy), and implications for its interpretation. Scientific Reports 7(1):13974
Micarelli I, Paine R, Giostra C, Tafuri MA, 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). Journal of Anthropological Sciences 96:1-16 doi:10.4436/jass.89003
Profico A, Piras P, Buzi C, Di Vincenzo F, Lattarini F, Melchionna M, Veneziano A, Raia P, Manzi G (2017) The evolution of cranial base and face in Cercopithecoidea and Hominoidea: Modularity and morphological integration C7 - e22721. American Journal of Primatology 79(12):e22721-n/a
Raia P, Boggioni M, Carotenuto F, Castiglione S, Febbraro M, Di Vincenzo F, Melchionna M, Mondanaro A, Papini A, Profico A, Veneziano A, Rook L, Manzi G (2018) Unexpectedly rapid evolution of mandibular shape in hominins. Scientific reports 8 doi:10.1038/s41598-018-25309-8
Schlager S, Profico A, Di Vincenzo F, Manzi G (2018) Retrodeformation of fossil specimens based on 3D bilateral semi-landmarks: Implementation in the R package ‘Morpho’. PLOS ONE 13(3):e0194073
Tafuri, M. A, A. F. J. Zangrando, A. Tessone, S. Kochi, J. Moggi Cecchi, F. Di Vincenzo, A. Profico & G. Manzi (2017) Dietary resilience among hunter-gatherers of Tierra del Fuego: Isotopic evidence in a diachronic perspective. PLOS ONE, 12, e0175594.
Profico, A, Di Vincenzo, F, Gagliardi, L, Piperno, M, Manzi, G, 2016. Filling the gap. Human cranial remains from Gombore II (Melka Kunture, Ethiopia; ca. 850 ka) and the origin of Homo heidelbergensis. Journal of Anthropological Sciences 94, 1-24.
Profico, A, Di Vincenzo, F, Bellucci, L, Strani, F, Tafuri MA, Manzi G (2016) Advances in virtual archaeology: research, preservation, and dissemination. ACTA IMEKO 5:89-94
Di Vincenzo, F, Carbone, I, Ottini, L, Profico, A, Ricci, F, Tafuri, M.A, Fornaciari, G, Manzi, G, 2015. Modern beams for ancient mummies computerized tomography of the Holocene mummified remains from Wadi Takarkori (Acacus, South-Western Libya; Middle Pastoral). Medicina nei Secoli Arte e Scienza. Journal of History of Medicine 27/2 575-588
Di Vincenzo, F, Rodriguez, L, Carretero, J.M, Collina, C, Geraads, D, Piperno, M, Manzi, G, 2015. The massive fossil humerus from the Oldowan horizon of Gombore I, Melka Kunture (Ethiopia, >1.39 Ma). Quaternary Science Reviews 122, 207-221.
Lari, M, Di Vincenzo, F, Borsato, A, Ghirotto, S, Micheli, M, Balsamo, C, Collina, C, De Bellis, G, Frisia, S, Giacobini, G, Gigli, E, Hellstrom, J.C, Lannino, A, Modi, A, Pietrelli, A, Pilli, E, Profico, A, Ramirez, O, Rizzi, E, Vai, S, Venturo, D, Piperno, M, Lalueza-Fox, C, Barbujani, G, Caramelli, D, Manzi, G, 2015. The Neanderthal in the karst: First dating, morphometric, and paleogenetic data on the fossil skeleton from Altamura (Italy). Journal of Human Evolution 82, 88-94.
Bisol, G.D, Anagnostou, P, Bruner, E, Capocasa, M, Canali, S, Danubio, M.E, Di Vincenzo, F, Fantini, B, Greco, P, Cecchi, J.M, 2014. Open data, Science and Society: launching Oasis, the flagship initiative of the Istituto Italiano di Antropologia. Journal of Anthropological Sciences (JASs) 92, 1-4.
Di Vincenzo, F, Manzi, G, 2013. Social learning and origin of the language faculty by means of natural selection. Journal of Anthropological Sciences (JASs) 91, 23-30.
Di Vincenzo, F, Churchill, S.E, Manzi, G, 2012. The Vindija Neanderthal scapular glenoid fossa: Comparative shape analysis suggests evo-devo changes among Neanderthals. Journal of Human Evolution 62, 274-285.

Selected peer-reviewed papers (non-ISI) and Chapters in volumes
Shipton C, Nielsen M, Di Vincenzo F (2021) The Acheulean origins of normativity. In: Killin A, Allen-Hermanson S (eds) Explorations in archaeology and philosophy. Springer, New York
Ricci F, Tafuri MA, Castorina F, Di Vincenzo F, Mori L, Manzi G (2019) The Garamantes from Fewet (Ghat, Fazzan, Libya): A Skeletal Perspective. In: Mattingly DJ, Sterry M, Gatto MC, Ray N (eds) Burials, Migration and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 162-192
De Petrillo, F, Di Vincenzo, F, & Di Paolo, LD (2018). An Evolutionary Perspective on Primate Social Cognition. In Evolution of Primate Social Cognition (pp. 1-10). Springer, Cham.
Di Paolo, LD, & Di Vincenzo, F (2018). Emulation,(Over) imitation and Social Creation of Cultural Information. In Evolution of Primate Social Cognition (pp. 267-282). Springer, Cham.
Di Vincenzo F, Raia P, Boggioni M, Carotenuto F, Castiglione S, Febbraro M, Melchionna M, Mondanaro A, Papini A, Profico A, Veneziano A, Rook L, Manzi G (2018) Of Teeth, Feet and Feed. Proceeeding of the Society of Human Evolution 7
Micarelli I, Paine R, Profico A, Di Vincenzo F, Tafuri MA, Boggioni M, Papini A, Giostra C, Manzi G (2017) The survival of an amputated limb without antibiotics: a case study from a Longobard necropolis (VI-VIII centuries AD). Pathologica 109:429-438
Di Vincenzo, F, Lari, M, Borsato, A, Ghirotto, S, Micheli, M, Balsamo, C, Collina, C, De Bellis, G, Frisia, S, Giacobini, G, Gigli, E, Hellstrom, J.C, Lannino, A, Modi, A, Pietrelli, A, Pilli, E, Profico, A, Ramirez, O, Rizzi, E, Vai, S, Venturo, D, Piperno, M, Lalueza-Fox, C, Barbujani, G, Caramelli, D, Manzi, G, 2015. L'uomo di Altamura, vent'anni dopo: nuove ricerche sullo scheletro della grotta di Lamalunga (Altamura, Bari). Atti della XLVII Riunione Scientifica Preistoria e Protostoria della Puglia (in press).
Profico, A, Buzi, C, Landi, F, Lattarini, F, Veneziano, A, Di Vincenzo, F, Manzi, G, 2015. Morphological integration and modularity in the cranium of extant and fossil Hominoidea: a 3D geometric-morphometric approach. Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (PESHE 5) 5, 181.
Tafuri, M.A, Alhaique, F, Bernardini, F, Di Vincenzo, F, Profico, A, Tuniz, C, Grimaldi, S, Manzi, G, 2015. Among the last Neanderthals. A reappraisal of the Grotta Breuil case-study (Monte Circeo, Latium, Italy). Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (PESHE 5) 5, 216.
Di Vincenzo, F, Bernardini, F, Biddittu, I, Profico, A, Zaio, P, Zanolli, C, Rubini, M, Tuniz, C, Manzi, G, 2014. The Ceprano calvarium, twenty years after. A new generation of (digital) studies. Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (PESHE 4) 4, 61.
Di Vincenzo, F, Manzi, G, 2014. E poi venne il cervello: evoluzione umana ed encefalizzazione - Next came the brain: human evolution and encephalisation, XL Seminario sulla Evoluzione biologica e i grandi problemi della Biologia. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma, pp. 65-94.
Manzi, G, Bernardini, F, Caramelli, D, Cremaschi, M, Di Vincenzo, F, Galli, C, Giacobini, G, Gigli, E, Lari, M, Lo Vetro, D, Martini, F, Muscolino, F, Persico, D, Poggiani Keller, R, Profico, A, Ravara, S, Ravazzi, C, Zanolli, C, Tuniz, C, 2014. The hominin frontal bone recently discovered in the Po Valley, Northern Italy. Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (PESHE 4) 4, 109.
Di Vincenzo, F, Manzi, G, 2013. Evoluzione umana: un’introduzione. Atti 1° congresso nazionale della Societa’ Italiana di Nutrizione Vegetariana SINVE, 45-50
Di Vincenzo, F, Manzi, G, 2013. L'origine darwiniana del linguaggio, in: Banfi, E. (Ed.), Sull'origine del linguaggio e delle lingue storico-naturali. Bulzoni, Roma, pp. 217-247.
Di Vincenzo, F, Manzi, G, 2013. Apprendimento imitativo ed evoluzione del linguaggio: una prospettiva darwiniana, in: Grandi, N. (Ed.), Dialoghi sulle Lingue e sui Linguaggi. Pàtron Bologna, pp. 75-92.
Di Vincenzo, F, Profico, A, Caramelli, D, Micheli, M, Piperno, M, Venturo, D, Manzi, G, 2013. New researche on the ‘Altamura man’: morphology of the scapular glenoid cavity of a Neanderthal skeleton. Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (PESHE 2) 2, 52.
Manzi, G, Di Vincenzo, F, 2013. Light Has Been Thrown (on Human Origins): a Brief History of Palaeoanthropology, with Notes on the’ Punctuated’ Origin of Homo Sapiens. Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi 6, 31-48.
Profico, A, Di Vincenzo, F, Piras, P, Di Chiara, A, Manzi, G, 2013. Cranial base variations in extant Hominoidea and fossil Hominins. Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (PESHE 2) 2, 151.

• ORGANISATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND EXHIBITIONS

2019 Organizer of the exhibition ‘Pima di Roma. Storie di Neanderthal Metropolitani’ Comune di Roma (Municipality of Rome) – Botanical Garden of Rome. 2nd May-2nd June 2019

2018 Co-organizer of the exhibition ‘Qualcosa di molto speciale. Quando e come siamo diventati umani’ Museo Naturalistico dei Monti Prenestini. 1st May-31st December 2018.

2014 Organizer of the one day workshop: Gesti, segni, parole: Evoluzione e linguaggi (Roma, Villa Mirafiori 29 January 2015) promoted by the ‘Scuola Dottorale di Filosofia della Sapienza Università di Roma’ in collaboration with ‘Seminario Permanente Evolution and Cognition’.

2014 Organizer of the one day workshop Niche Construction: prospettive interdisciplinari (Roma, Villa Mirafiori 6 February 2014) promoted by the ‘Scuola Dottorale di Filosofia della Sapienza Università di Roma’ in collaboration with ‘Seminario Permanente Evolution and Cognition’.

2012 Exhibition Homo sapiens. La Grande Storia della Diversità Umana Roma (Roma Palazzo delle Esposizioni 11 November 2011 - 12 February 2012) Executive committee member.

2007 Scientific international exhibithion: ‘La scimmia nuda. Storia naturale dell’umanità’ (The Naked Ape. Natural History of Mankind). 7th April 2007 – 6th January 2008, Natural History Museum of Trento, Trento (Italy). (scientific advisor)

2006 International meeting ‘Nostro fratello Neanderthal.... when we were not alone’ (Sabaudia 2122 October 2006). Executive committee member.

2005 International conference: Humans in the focus of our evolution. Ten years after the discovery of the Ceprano man. 16th-19th March 2005, Rome (Italy). Member of the executive committee (as undergraduate). Editor with prof. Manzi of the book ‘The Ceprano Hominid’ published in the occasion of the conference by the Italian Institute of Human Paleontology (IsIPU)

• FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2013 Award (500 euros) credited by the Associazione Antropologica Italiana (AAI) for the best Ph.D. thesis in Italy in the field of Physical Anthropology and Prehistoric Archeology over a 5-year period.
2012 Grant of 4600 euros credited by the Museum of Anthropology ‘G. Sergi’ of the Department of Environmental Biology of Sapienza Università di Roma (n. prot. 430/12)
2009 Award for the best poster. 18th Meeting of the Italian Association of Anthropology (AAI), Florence 1st – 4th October 2009

• REVIEWING ACTIVITIES

2015– ongoing Reviewer of several journals like: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Philosophical Transactions B, PLoS One
2015– ongoing Review panel member and reviewer of the Journal of Anthropological Sciences JASs

• INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

2017 –ongoing Councillor of the Italian Institute of Human Paleontology (IsIPU), Italy
2015 –ongoing Councillor of the Italian Institute of Anthropology (IsITA), Italy

• MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

2016 –ongoing Fellow of the Italian Association of Anthropology (AAI)
2012 –ongoing Fellow of the European Society of Human Evolution (ESHE)
2010 –ongoing Fellow of the Italian Institute of Human Paleontology (IsIPU), Italy
2010 –ongoing Fellow of the Italian Institute of Anthropology (IsITA), Italy