Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Enza Elena Spinapolice
Title: PhD
Born in Foggia, Italy, November 03rd, 1976
Office address: Museo delle Origini, Università Roma Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma
Telephone: (0039) 0649913926
E-mail: enzaelena.spinapolice@uniroma1.it

Research Interests
Archaeology of early Homo sapiens
Relation between behavioral and biological modernity
Neanderthal archaeology
Mousterian/MSA mobility strategies and settlement systems
Lithic technology and raw material provenance analysis

Current position
Associate Professor in Palaeolithic Archaeology, Dipartimento di Scienze dell Antichità, Università La Sapienza, Rome.

Istitutional Responsabilities
2015 Faculty member, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
2020 Affiliation to the Albo degli Esperti Scientifici (REPRISE) MIUR
2020 Member of the Scientific Commettee, Museo delle Origini, Polo Museale Sapienza.
2019 Member of a Doctoral committee in Archaeology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Teaching
2019-2020: Archeologia e Culture del Paleolitico, LT&LM; Tecnologia Litica, LM, Dipartimento di Scienze dell Antichità, Roma La Sapienza.
2018-2019: Tecnologia Litica, LM, Dipartimento di Scienze dell Antichità, Roma La Sapienza.
2018-2019: Archeologia Sperimentale Avanzato, LM, Dipartimento di Scienze dell Antichità, Roma La Sapienza.
2017-2018: Tecnologia Litica, LM, Dipartimento di Scienze dell Antichità, Roma La Sapienza.
2016-2017: Tecnologia Litica, LT, Dipartimento di Scienze dell Antichità, Roma La Sapienza.

Affiliations and Editorial Boards
2021 - PloS One Academic Editor
2012 Reviewer for peer review Journals (e.g. QI, QSR, JHE, JAS, PlosOne)
2012 Member, SAFA (Society for Africanist Archaeologists).
2010 Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria
2004 Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana

Academic Appointments
2016 2018 Researcher, Dipartimento di Scienze dell Antichità, Università La Sapienza, Rome.
2015 Research Associate, Leverhulme Centre For Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge University, UK.
2013-2014 Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Department of Human Evolution, Leipzig, Germany.
2011-2013 Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Department of Human Evolution, Leipzig, Germany.
2009-2011 Marie Curie Incoming International Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Department of Human Evolution, Leipzig, Germany.

Education
2004-2008 European PhD (with honors) in Prehistoric Archaeology, La Sapienza University and Bordeaux 1 University (Institute of Prehistory and Geology of the Quaternary, Bordeaux, France). Dissertation: Technologie lithique et circulation des matières premières au Paléolithique moyen dans le Salento (Pouilles, Italie) : perspectives comportementales. Directors: Prof. A. Bietti, M. Piperno and. J. Jaubert.
2003-2004 M.A. (1st class) Paleoanthropology and Prehistory, Bordeaux 1 University (France). Dissertation: The anvil percussion in Central Italy. Director: Prof. J. Jaubert.
2002 B.A. (1st class with honors) Prehistoric Archaeology, Dep. of Archaeology, Rome La Sapienza University, Rome. Dissertation: A multidisciplinary approach to the study of Last Neanderthals: new data on the final Mousterian site of Grotta Breuil (Lazio, Italy). Director: Prof. A. Bietti.
1995-2002 Prehistoric Archaeology at Rome La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.

RESEARCH PROJECTS
PI
2020 Principal investigator Towards Homo sapiens in East Africa: biological and cultural transitions in Danakil Eritrea over the last million years. , Grandi Scavi Sapienza.
2014 2020 Principal Investigator in the (H)Origin project, on origin of MSA in East Africa.
2014 - 2016 Principal Investigator in the TRANSITION project. Excavation and analysis of Uluzzo C and Uluzzo sites, Salento, Apulia, Italy.
2009-2011 principal investigator of the ATERIAN project, on the behavioral aspect of MSA in North Africa.
2009 PI, Middle Paleolithic site of Bénazit, in Cazères-sur-l'Adour, (Landes, Aquitaine, France).
2004-2006 P.I Salento Project Survey, Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana, Roma la Sapienza University.

Post- doc Supervision
2020-2022 Project coordinator, IF Marie Curie Fellow, Techno-C-Cap- Technological Cultures in Capuchin Monkeys: an Archeological and Behavioural exploration , Dr. Giulia Sirianni.
2017-2018 : Project coordinator Dr. Donatella Usai New researches on the MSA in the Central Sudan (Omdurman Area) .
2016-2018: Project Coordinator Dr. Marina Gallinaro I l paesaggio archeologico dell'area di Yavello e Gothera (Etiopia meridionale). Traiettorie culturali e simboliche tra la fine del Pleistocene e l'Olocene .

Team member and collaborations
2016 present ERC SUCCESS, The Earliest migration of Homo sapiens in southern Europe PI Prof. Stefano Benazzi (Bologna University).
2019- 2020 The origin of tribal alliances and social complexity in eastern Arabia: the archaeological evidence from the late bronze age/iron age Daba burial complex (ii/i mill BC, Musandam peninsula, sultanate of Oman) . PI Prof. Marco Ramazzotti, Sapienza University).
2019-2020 Conseguenze della frammentazione etnica sul potere identificativo di marcatori genetico-forensi in popolazioni dell'Africa sub-Sahariana . (PI Prof. Fulvio Cruciani, Sapienza University).
2018-2019 Origine genetica delle odierne popolazioni caraibiche: analisi della regione maschio-specifica del cromosoma Y umano mediante next generation sequencing . (PI Fulvio Cruciani, Sapienza University).
2018 Towards Homo sapiens: continuity and biological and cultural transitions in Danakil Eritrea over the last million years , PI Prof. Alfredo Coppa (Sapienza University).
2016- 2018 RRI-net, Responsible research Innovation: limiti e potenzialità di un quadro interpretativo per la progettazione europea PI Prof. Giovanni Destro-Bisol (Sapienza University).
2015 2019 Scavi archeologici nella Dancalia eritrea: una storia di un milione di anni , PI Prof. Alfredo Coppa (Sapienza University).
2013 2017 In Africa: The role of East Africa in the evolution of human diversity . PI M. Mirazon Lahr (Cambridge University).
2012 2014 Missione archeologica italiana a Melka Kunture e Balchit (Etiopia). PI M. Mussi (Roma- La Sapienza University, Italy).
2009-2012 Missione Congiunta Italo-Libica nel Jebel Gharbi Libia . PI E. Garcea (Cassino University, Italy) and B.E. Barich (Roma- La Sapienza University, Italy).
2006-2010 Co-PI in Riparo Mochi (Balzi Rossi di Grimaldi) research team. In charge of spatial analysis and refitting. Responsible of excavation method, lithic analysis and refitting. Bordeaux University and Trento University, Soprintendenza della Liguria.
2006-2008 Collaboration in field and laboratory research, Soprintendenza Archeologica della Puglia, Dott. M. A. Gorgoglione.
2000-2006 Collaboration in projects financed by Ministero per l'Università e la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (MIUR) , Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell Uomo, University Rome- La Sapienza , PI prof. A. Bietti.

GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2018 Maria Sk odowska Curie TechnoC-Cap H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, PI Dr. Giulia Sirianni (Enza E. Spinapolice, coordinator) ( 183,473.28).
2015 Rita Levi Montalcini Grant, Italian Ministry of Education (210.373 ).
2015 SIR, Scientific independence of young researchers , Italian Ministry of Education (379.282 ).
2015 Leakey Grant, Uluzzian Project (25000 $, PI Marco Peresani, Ferrara University).
2009-2011 Intra-European Fellowship (Call: FP7-PEOPLE-2008-1EF), People - Marie Curie Actions - Seventh Framework Programme, European Union (161.686,39 ).
2004-2007 University Grant for the European Ph.D (10.000 ).
2004-2007 Full tuition scholarship for Doctoral studies, University Rome - La Sapienza (First Place) (30.000 ).
2003 1st Prize Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria: Award for the best BA Dissertation of the year and Grant to prolong research on the subject. (5.000 )
1999- 2001 Annual Grant to collaborate with Dipartimento di Paletnologia, University of Rome - La Sapienza.

MAIN FIELD EXPERIENCE
Principal Investigator & field director
2019-Present, Buia, Eritrea, Paleoantropological and Archaeological site, Eritrea.
2015- Present Yabelo - MSA/LSA/Pastoral site, Borana Zone, Southern Ethiopia.
2015- Present Gotera - MSA site, Borana Zone, Southern Ethiopia.
2015- Present Uluzzo C - Middle to Upper Palaeolithic site Nardò (Lecce) Italy.
2017-2018: Al Jamrab, Middle Stone Age site (Sudan).
2016-2018: Buia, Eritrea, Middle Stone Age.
2013-2015: West Turkana, Kenya, Middle Stone Age.
2007-2010 Riparo Mochi, Balzi Rossi, Grimaldi. Middle and Upper Palaeolithic. Directors Dr. S. Grimaldi (Trento University) and A. del Lucchese (Soprintendenza Archeologica Liguria).
2005-2006 Salento (Apulia, Southern Italy) geo-archaeological survey promoted by Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana (ISIPU).
Joint Director
2000-2006 Riparo Mochi, Balzi Rossi, Middle-Upper Palaeolithic. Director Prof. A. Bietti (La Sapienza University) and A. del Lucchese (Soprintendenza Archeologica Liguria).
2003 Grotta Breuil, Latium, Central Italy, Middle Palaeolithic. Director Prof. A. Bietti (La Sapienza University).
Contract archaeology
2009 Principal investigator in Acheulean site of Benazit, Landes, France. Paleotime SARL.
2003-2007 Rome, Fiumicino, field evaluation and excavation of Middle Bronze, Iron and Roman age features in humid environment (marshy areas with peat). Excavation of wood and other organic features. Direction of Soprintendenza Archeologica di Ostia (Dr. A. Morelli).
2002-2007 Rome, archaeological evaluations in urban contexts. Director Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma.

PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Publications
2020 E. Carletti, M. Fusco, A. Zerboni, M. Gallinaro, E- E. Spinapolice Raw material exploitation and lithic variability at the Middle Stone Age site of Gotera, southern Ethiopia: technological and quantitative approaches combined , Journal of Lithic Studies.
Stefano Benazzi, Simona Arrighi, Federica Badino, Eugenio Bortolini, Carla Figus, Federico Lugli, Giulia Marciani, Gregorio Oxilia, Matteo Romandini, Sara Silvestrini, Paolo Boscato, Anna Cipriani, Adriana Moroni, Fabio Negrino, Marco Peresani, Roberta Pini, Cesare Ravazzi, Annamaria Ronchitelli, Enza Spinapolice (2020) A focus on the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Mediterranean area , Quaternary International, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.06.029.
E. E. Spinapolice Lithic variability and cultures in the East African MSA in «Culture history and convergent evolution - Can we detect populations in prehistory? », Groucutt, ed., Springer, 2020.
Wu, Y. L., Villa, F., Mugnai, G., Gallinaro, M., Spinapolice, E. E., & Zerboni, A. (2020). Geomicrobial Investigations of Colored Outer Coatings from an Ethiopian Rock Art Gallery. Coatings, 10(6), 536.
2019 F. Badino, R. Pini, C. Ravazzi, D. Margaritora, S. Arrighi, E. Bortolini, C. Figus, B. Giaccio, F. Lugli, G. Marciani, G. Monegato, A. Moroni, F. Negrino, G. Oxilia, M. Peresani, M. Romandini, A. Ronchitelli, E. E. Spinapolice, A. Zerboni, S. Benazzi An overview of Alpine and Mediterranean palaeogeography, terrestrial ecosystems and climate history during MIS 3 with focus on the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition , Quaternary International.
G. Marciani, A. Ronchitelli, S. Arrighi, F. Badino, E. Bortolini, P. Boscato, F. Boschin, J. Crezzini, D. Delpiano, A. Falcucci, C. Figus, F. Lugli, G. Oxilia, M. Romandini, J. Riel-Salvatore, F. Negrino, M. Peresani, E. E. Spinapolice, A. Moroni, Stefano Benazzi Lithic techno-complexes in Italy from 50 to 39 thousand years BP: An overview of lithic technological changes across the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic boundary , Quaternary International.
S. Arrighi, A. Moroni, L. Tassoni, F. Boschin, F. Badino, E. Bortolini, P. Boscato, J. Crezzini, C. Figus, M. Forte, F. Lugli, G. Marciani, G. Oxilia, F. Negrino, J. Riel-Salvatore, M. Romandini, M. Peresani, E. E. Spinapolice, A. Ronchitelli, S. Benazzi Bone tools, ornaments and other unusual objects during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Italy , Quaternary International.
M. Romandini, J. Crezzini, E. Bortolini, P. Boscato, F. Boschin, L. Carrera, N. Nannini, A. Tagliacozzo, G. Terlato, S. Arrighi, F. Badino, C. Figus, F. Lugli, G. Marciani, G. Oxilia, A. Moroni, F. Negrino, M. Peresani, J. Riel-Salvatore, A. Ronchitelli, E. E. Spinapolice, Stefano Benazzi Macromammal and bird assemblages across the Late Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Italy: an extended zooarchaeological review . Quaternary International.
E. M. L. Scerri & E. E. Spinapolice, 2019 Lithics of the North African Middle Stone Age: assumptions, evidence and future directions , Journal of Anthroplogical Science.
Fiorini, A., Curci, A. Spinapolice, E., Benazzi, S. Grotta di Uluzzo C (Nardo -Lecce): risultati preliminari, strumenti e metodi dell indagine archeologica , Fold&R, 1-18.
2018 Spinapolice, E. E., Zerboni, A, Meyer, M. Usai, D. 2018 Early Human Occupation at al-Jamrab (White Nile Region, Central Sudan): A Contribution to the Understanding of the MSA of Eastern Africa , Journal of African Archaeology 16 (2018), 1-14.
E. E. Spinapolice 2018 «Les Néandertaliens du talon. Technologie lithique et mobilité au Paléolithique moyen dans le Salento (Pouilles, Italie méridionale) ». Oxford, Archaeopress pp.1-224.
Carletti, E., Fusco, M; Gallinaro, M; Zerboni, A, Spinapolice, E.E. 2018 Raw material exploitation and lithic variability at the MSA site of Gotera, Southern Ethiopia: technological and quantitative approaches combined in Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, pp. 140-148.
E. E Spinapolice, 2018 «Neanderthal mobility pattern and technological organization in the Salento (Apulia, Italy) », in Palaeolithic Italy. Advanced studies on early human adaptation in the Apennine peninsula eds. Borgia V., Cristiani E., Sidestone Press, Leiden.
Bruner, E., Spinapolice E.E., Burke, A. and Overmann L., 2018 «Visuospatial integration: paleoanthropological and archaeological perspectives», in The evolution of primates cognition (Di Vincenzo et al., eds.), Springer., pp. 299-326.
Gallinaro, M., Zerboni, A., Solomon, T., & Spinapolice, E. E., 2018. Rock Art Between Preservation, Research and Sustainable Development a Perspective from Southern Ethiopia. African Archaeological Review, 1-13.
Fiorini, A., Curci, A., Benazzi, S., & Spinapolice, E. E., 2018. Il sistema di documentazione digitale dello scavo archeologico nel sito di Uluzzo C (Nardò, LE). Sezione di Museologia Scientifica e Naturalistica, 13, 68-70.
2017 E. E. Spinapolice, M. Gallinaro, A. Zerboni, 2017 «New investigations in southern Ethiopia (Yabelo and Gotera): Pleistocene and Holocene Archaeological Evidence», SCIENZE DELL ANTICHITÀ 23 (1), pp. 37-47.
2016 E. E. Spinapolice, 2016 «From primitivism to a contemporary view of prehistory. A new tale», Quaderni Storici, pp. 290-300.
E. Bruner. E. Spinapolice. A. Fedato 2016 - Digito ergo sum: cervello, corpo, ambiente. Micromega, Settembre 2016, pp. 27-49.
E. E. Spinapolice, Neanderthal mobility pattern and technological organization in the Salento Mousterian in Il Paleolitico e il Mesolitico in Italia: nuove ricerche e prospettive di studio . Pp. 43-44.
2015 E. E. Spinapolice, 2015 «Third hand: a testable hypothesis», Journal of Anthropological Sciences Vol. 93 (2015), pp. 169-171.
2014 E. E. Spinapolice and E. A. A. Garcea, 2014 «Aterian lithic technology and settlement system in the Jebel Gharbi, North-Western Libya», Quaternary International 350 (2014), pp.241-253.
M. Mussi, F. Altamura, D. Geraads, R. Grün, R. T. Melis, E.E. Spinapolice 2014 « A preliminary re-assessment of Garba III at Melka Kunture, a Middle Stone Age site with archaic Homo sapiens remains», Quaternary International 343, 2014, pp. 28 39.
E. Spinapolice, 2014 «Il Paleolitico antico e medio della Calabria» In M. Cerzoso, A. Vanzetti (eds) «Catalogo dell'esposizione del Museo Civico dei Brettii e degli Enotri, Cosenza, ». Catanzaro: Ed. Rubettino, pp. 27-30.
2013 E.E. Spinapolice, and E.A.A. Garcea, 2013 «The Aterian from the Jebel Gharbi (Libya): new technological perspectives from North Africa ». African Archaeological Review 30 (2), pp 169-194.
2012 K. Douka and E.E. Spinapolice, 2012 « Neanderthal shell tool production: evidence from Middle Palaeolithic Italy and Greece ». Journal of Word Prehistory 25 (2012), pp. 45 79.
E.E. Spinapolice, 2012 « Mousterian lithic industry and raw material economy from Salento (Apulia, Italy): new perspectives on Neanderthals mobility patterns». Journal of Archaeological Science 39 (2012), pp. 680- 689.
A. Tagliacozzo, F. Zeppieri, I. Fiore, E. Spinapolice, A. Del Lucchese, 2012 « Archaeozoological evidence of subsistence strategies during the Gravettian at Riparo Mochi (Balzi Rossi, Ventimiglia, Imperia - Italy) ». Quaternary International 252 (2012), pp. 142 154.
2011 E. Spinapolice, 2011 «Cazères sur Adour, Bénazit », in « Bilan scientifique 2009. Direction régionale des Affaires culturelles Aquitaine ». Service régional d archéologie, pp. 202-203.
2010 A. Bietti, E. Cancellieri, C. Corinaldesi, S. Grimaldi, E. Spinapolice, 2009-2010 « La percussion sur enclume en Italie centrale thyrrenèenne », in Mourre and Jarry (eds.) « Entre le marteau et l enclume». Actes de la table ronde de Toulouse, 15-17 mars 2004, PALEO 2009-2010, numéro spécial, p. 143-180.
S. Grimaldi and E. Spinapolice, 2010 «The late mousterian of Grotta Breuil (Monte Circeo, Lazio, Italy): interpreting new and ancient data», in «Middle Palaeolithic Human Activity and Palaeoecology: New Discoveries and Ideas», ed. by Jan Michal Burdukiewicz and Andrzej Wisniewski, Wroclaw, pp. 413-424.
2009 E. Spinapolice, 2009 «Lithic industries and raw material in southern Italy Mousterian: an example from Grotta dei Giganti (Salento, Apulia)», in «Non-flint raw material use in prehistory / L utilisation préhistorique de matières premières lithiques alternatives». Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) Oxford, BAR International Series, pp. 177-186. 4
E. Cristiani and E. Spinapolice 2009 «Approccio tecno-sperimentale all'industria su Callista chione. Nuovi risultati da Grotta dei Giganti (LE)». Proceedings of the 5° Convegno Nazionale di Archeozoologia - Rovereto 10-12 novembre 2006, pp. 85-88.
2008 Bietti A., Del Lucchese A., Negrino F., Spinapolice E. (2008). Riparo Mochi. Balzi Rossi (Ventimiglia). ARCHEOLOGIA IN LIGURIA, vol. 1, p. 237-238
2007 S. Grimaldi, E. Spinapolice, E. Cancellieri, C. Corinaldesi, 2007, «Approccio sperimentale alla percussione su incudine nel Musteriano laziale», Proceedings of the XL Riunione Scientifica Strategie di insediamento fra Lazio e Campania in età Preistorica e Protostorica , Roma, 30 Novembre - 03 Dicembre 2005, pp. 295-304.
E. Spinapolice, 2007 «Analisi informatizzata della distribuzione dei reperti dello strato 7 di Grotta Breuil (Monte Circeo, Lazio)», Proceedings of the XL Riunione Scientifica Strategie di insediamento fra Lazio e Campania in età Preistorica e Protostorica , Roma, 30 Novembre- 03 Dicembre 2005, pp. 31-34.
2006 E. Spinapolice, 2006 «L uso dello spazio a Grotta Breuil: risultati preliminari dall analisi degli strati inferiori (6,7 e 8) », Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche LVI, pag. 39-52.
2004 D. Zampetti, F. Alhaique, C. Lemorini, E. Cristiani, R. Campanella, A. Pasquini, E. Spinapolice, 2004 «L'archeologia sperimentale e la documentazione etnografica come strumenti interpretativi dei manufatti in osso» in Atti del 2° Convegno Nazionale di Etnoarcheologia (Mondaino 7/8 Giugno 2001) , M. Barogi and F. Lugli (eds.), pag.122-128.
Abstracts
2014 M. Mussi, R. Melis, F. Altamura, E.E. Spinapolice, 2014 Garba III (Melka Kunture, Ethiopia): reanalysis of the space patterning and dwelling structures of an early MSA site. XVII World UISPP Congress 2014 Burgos, 1-7 September, in Technological change and behavioral variability in the MSA .
2007 Spinapolice, E., Riel-Salvatore, J, Cancellieri, E., 2007 Continuity and discontinuity in raw material exploitation and procurement from Middle to Final Upper Palaeolithic in the Salento (Apulia, Southern Italy) . Integrated methodological approaches to the study of lithic technology. Fl13-15 December 2007. orence,

Conference presentations and posters

2019 Fusco M., Carletti E., Zerboni, A., Gallinaro M., Spinapolice E. E. Exploitation strategies of local environment in prehistoric sub-saharian Africa: the analysis of MSA site of Gotera, Southern Ethiopia . 54TH SCIENTIFIC MEETING Archaeology of change. Models, processes, adaptations in Prehistory and Protohistory. Rome, 23-26 October 2019, Museo delle Civiltà.
K. Nicoll, E.E. Spinapolice, A. Zerboni Emerging geoarchaeological and environmental records from the NE Sahara and their relevance in dispersals Out of Africa during the Quaternary GSA 2019.
2018 E.E. Spinapolice Which archaeology today? ITALIAN ARCHAEOLOGY IN EGYPT AND MENA COUNTRIES (IAM2) 5th-8th December 2018 Ministry of Antiquities Flamenco Hotel, Zamalek, Cairo
E. E. Spinapolice, M. Gallinaro, A. Zerboni, T. Solomon, H. Berhane, M. Fusco, E. Carletti, L Guidi Italian Archaeological Mission in Southern Ethiopia poster presented at the IAM conference, Cairo, 4-8 December 2018.
Fusco, M., Carletti, E. and Spinapolice, E.E., 2018. Raw material exploitation and lithic variability at the MSA site of Gotera, Southern Ethiopia . African Archaeology Research Day AARD 2018, University of Cambdrige, Cambridge, UK, November 24th 2018.
Ying-Li Wu, F. Villa, F. Cappitelli, M. Gallinaro, E. Spinapolice, M. Cremaschi, A. Zerboni Investigating the role of biofilms in the weathering and preservation of rock-art , Paper presented at the 3rd European Conference on Biodeterioration of Stone Monuments, November 8-9, 2018
Carletti, E., Fusco, M; Gallinaro, M; Zerboni, A, Spinapolice, E.E. Raw material exploitation and lithic variability at the MSA site of Gotera, Southern Ethiopia: technological and quantitative approaches combined . Cassino 22-24 October 2018.
F. Badino, A. Moroni, F. Negrino, M. Peresani , R. Pini , C. Ravazzi , E. Spinapolice , A. Ronchitelli , S. Benazzi Palaeoecological analysis of sediments documenting the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic age transition in Alpine and Mediterranean ecosystems; palaeoenvironmental and quantitative palaeoclimate reconstructions. A contribution to the ERC Project "SUCCESS" XVIII° UISPP World Congress in Paris (4-9 June 2018).
M. Romandini, S. Arrighi, D. Aureli, E. Bortolini, P. Boscato, F. Boschin, J. Crezzini, C. Figus, A. Moroni, F. Negrino, Marco Peresani, G. Pothier Bouchard, J. Riel-Salvatore, A. Ronchitelli, E. Spinapolice, S. Benazzi, 2018 Mammals and birds in Italy: a view across the MP-UP humans transition . XVIII° UISPP World Congress in Paris (4-9 June 2018).
S. Arrighi, M. Romandini, D. Aureli, E. Bortolini, P. Boscato, F. Boschin, J. Crezzini, C. Figus, A. Moroni, F. Negrino, M. Peresani, J. Riel-Salvatore, A. Ronchitelli, E. E. Spinapolice, S. Benazzi Bone artefacts from transitional and Early Upper Palaeolithic techno-complexes in Italy XVIII° UISPP World Congress in Paris (4-9 June 2018).
S.Benazzi, E. Bortolini, S. Arrighi, D. Aureli, F. Badino, C. Figus, M. Romandini, P. Boscato, A Cipriani, R Feeney, A. Moroni, F. Negrino, M. Peresani, R. Pini, C. Ravazzi, T. Ryan, E. Spinapolice, A. Ronchitelli 2018 The earliest migration of Homo sapiens in southern Europe: an ERC grant to understand the biocultural processes that define our uniqueness XVIII° UISPP World Congress in Paris (4-9 June 2018).
S. Arrighi, M. Romandini, D. Aureli, E. Bortolini, P. Boscato, F. Boschin, J. Crezzini, C. Figus, A. Moroni, F. Negrino, M. Peresani, J. Riel-Salvatore, A. Ronchitelli, E. E. Spinapolice, S.Benazzi 2018 Bone artefacts from transitional and Early Upper Palaeolithic techno-complexes in Italy XVIII° UISPP World Congress in Paris (4-9 June 2018).
S. Arrighi, M. Romandini, D. Aureli, E. Bortolini, C. Figus, F. Manuela, P. Boscato, F. Boschin, J.Crezzini, A. Moroni, F. Negrino, P. Marco, J.Riel-Salvatore, A. Ronchitelli, E. E. Spinapolice, S. Benazzi 2018 Ornaments and Pigments and their implications in behavioural modernity during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Italy XVIII° UISPP World Congress in Paris (4-9 June 2018).
K. Nicoll, E. Spinapolice, A. Zerboni 2018 GO WEST Out of Africa' through the desert side? A review of archaeological and environmental records across the NE Sahara XVIII° UISPP World Congress in Paris (4-9 June 2018).
2017 E. E Spinapolice, M. Gallinaro, T. Salomon, H. Birhane, A. Zerboni "The place of Southern Ethiopia in peopling of East Africa: new investigations in Gotera and Yabelo. EAAP Sixth Biennial Meeting Addis Ababa July 30° - August 2° 2017.
E. E. Spinapolice Challenges of a trans-regional approach to the study of MSA in East Africa: the (H)ORIGIN project 1st Workshop on Archaeology in Africa, Potentials and perspectives on laboratory & fieldwork research. Sapienza University of Rome 6-7 December 2017.
2016 E. E. Spinapolice, A. Van Baelen, J. M. Maíllo-Fernández, R. Foley, M. Mirazón-Lahr Is there a point? MSA lithic technology in West Turkana, Kenya , SAFA biennial meeting, Toulouse June 26, Julliet 2 2016.
E.E. Spinapolice East African MSA: Regionalization and Variability , SAA 81ST ANNUAL MEETING, Orlando, Florida April 6-10, 2016.
E.E. Spinapolice Mobilità neandertaliana e organizzazione tecnologica nel Musteriano del Salento , in "Il Paleolitico e il Mesolitico in Italia - Nuove ricerche e prospettive di studio", Genova 4-5 Febbraio 2016.
2015 Rué M., Adamiec G., Ajas A., Bernard-Guelle S., Courty M.-A., Dawson M.-C., Fedoroff N., Fernandes P., Martin B., Monin G., Picavet R., Remicourt M., Spinapolice E.E., Tallet P., «Paléosols pléistocènes et occupations humaines en contexte de dépôt condensé : apports et limites de la micromorphologie à l'étude de sites paléolithiques du Bassin aquitain. »
2014 E.E. Spinapolice The transition in Italy: archaeology of the Neanderthal extinction , UNESCO CONFERENCE, Granada, 10 December 2014.
E. E. Spinapolice «New Insights on the Early Middle Stone Age of Garba III, Melka Kunture, Ethiopia», THE AFRICAN ROOTS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR symposium, Cambridge May 15th 2014.
2012 M. Mussi, F. Altamura, D. Geraads, R.Grün, R. T. Melis, E.E. Spinapolice «A preliminary re-assessment of Garba III at Melka Kunture, a Middle Stone Age site with archaic Homo sapiens remains», 18th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, DIRE DAWA: 29 Oct. - 2 Nov. 2012. E. Spinapolice and E.A.A. Garcea 2012 «Integrating lithic analysis in tracking out-of-Africa migrations: new evidence from the Jebel Gharbi, NW Libya», Conference Middle Palaeolithic in the Desert , Oxford, 13-14 January 2012.
2010 T. Tsanova, E. Spinapolice 2010, « À la charnière entre le débitage Levallois et le débitage semi-tournant. Exemples des ensembles lithiques de la transition entre le Paléolithique moyen et le Paléolithique supérieur en Europe orientale et en Afrique du Nord (80-40 Ka) » XXVIIe congrès préhistorique de France, Bordeaux Les Eyzies 31 mai-5 juin 2010. "Transition, rupture ou continuité au Paléolithique moyen : le statut de la production laminaire volumétrique" (Locht, J-L., Ortega, I., Soressi M.).
E. Spinapolice, A. Delagnes, J. Jaubert, 2010 «Tracking human migrations through the lithic record: a challenging task ». XXVIIe congrès préhistorique de France, Bordeaux Les Eyzies 31 mai-5 juin 2010. "Settlement Dynamics of the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age. UISPP Session (Commission 27) . (N.Conard . et A. Delagnes).
2007 E. Spinapolice, J. Riel-Salvatore and E. Cancellieri 2007 « Continuity and discontinuity in raw material exploitation and procurement from Middle to Final Upper Palaeolithic in the Salento (Apulia) », International Conference Approcci metodologici integrati per lo studio dei manufatti litici preistorici , Firenze 13-15 dicembre, 2007.
2006 Bietti A., Grimaldi S., Spinapolice E., Negrino, F., Cristiani, E., Ruggeri, D., Cancellieri, E. 2006 « Le Grotte del Monte Circeo e non solo. Riflessioni sul comportamento umano nel Pleistocene superiore ». International conference « Nostro fratello Neanderthal », Sabaudia (Italy) 21-22 Ottobre 2006 .
2003 A. Bietti, C. Corinaldesi, S. Grimaldi, E. Spinapolice 2003 «The late Mousterian of Grotta Breuil », poster presented at EAA 2003, San Petersburg.
Invited lectures
2014 Invited Lecture, Cape Town University The east African perspective on the Origin of Modern Humans .
2013 Invited Lecture at the INA Coloquium, Tubingen University New Insights and perspectives in the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Italy .
2012 Invited Lecture at the McDonald Institute, Cambridge The emergence and diffusion of modern humans analysed through lithic technology .
2007 Invited lectures in Palaeolithic archaeology, Prof. Zampetti, Roma La Sapienza University « The Uluzzian and the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic in Italy. Introduction to the problematic».

Workshops and seminars
2018 E.E. Spinapolice Le origini e l espansione di Homo sapiens in Africa: il dibattito in corso , corso per accompagnatori culturali, Comune di Marina di Camerota, 27 Settembre 2018.
2017 Italian-Israeli Bi-National Workshop on: Environmental Constraints and the Dispersal of the Modern Human in Eurasia between 45,000 and 20,000 years ago 27th-28th November 2017 Museo-Storico-Archaeologico (MUSA) dell Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy.
2016 Parting the Red Sea: Late Pleistocene Human Dispersals and Lithic Variability in Arabia and the Horn of Africa , University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, April 3-4 2016.
2014 The Archaeology of Modern Human Evolution in Africa , Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, 16-17 May 2014.
2005-2006 Students Tutoring at the Summer School promoted by ALPINET project in Riparo Mochi, Liguria. Workshops, seminars, experimental archaeology and field techniques.

Major field work reports for preventive archaeology
2010 E. Spinapolice (ed.) « Bénazit. Cazères sur Adour (40). Rapport de fouille préventive», Société Paléotime. 210pp.

Public Outreach
2014 Vorrei la pelle nera , Corriere Immigrazione, Agosto 2014. http://www.corrieredellemigrazioni.it/2014/08/07/vorrei-pelle-nera/ .
Non sono razzista. Punto. Senza ma . Carriere Internazionali, 20 Marzo 2014. http://carriereinternazionali.com/rubrica/giornata-mondiale-controrazzis... .
2013 Professione (Paleo)Antropologa. Il percorso interdisciplinare di Enza Spinapolice http://www.professioneantropologo.it/2013/04/21/professione-paleoantropo... .
2012 Curator of the board Prehistory in the Italian home-schooling blog Lapappadolce , http://www.lapappadolce.net/guest-post-perche-insegnare-la-preistoria-ai...
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