Prof. Luca Sineo

University of Palermo, Italy

Professor

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Qualifications

1996 Master degree in Medical genetics

1987 Ph.D., Università di Firenze, Anthropology

1983 Degree in Biology, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Publications (Selected)

1. Lauria, G., & Sineo, L. (2025). Prehistory and Protohistory in Sicily. A Geometric Morphometrics Approach to Study the Biological History of Early Human Peopling of the Island. Anthropological Review, 88(2), 27-43.
2. Forgia, V., Speciale, C., Ölz, M. E., Romano, A., Savarino, F., Natoli, R., & Sineo, L. (2025). The human entry in Sicily: new archaeological and paleoenvironmental evidence from San Teodoro cave (Acquedolci, Messina). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 17(5), 109.
3. Ringbauer, H., Salman-Minkov, A., Regev, D., Olalde, I., Peled, T., Sineo, L., ... & Reich, D. (2025). Punic people were genetically diverse with almost no Levantine ancestors. Nature, 1-9.
4. Moraes, C., Šindelář, J., Habicht, M. E., Sineo, L., Beaini, T., Varotto, E., & Galassi, F. M. (2025). The Facial approximation of the controversial skull attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791).
5. Mori, T., Sparacello, V. S., Riga, A., Ciappi, G., Ferrari, D., Seghi, F., ... & Dori, I. (2025). Early European evidence of artificial cranial modification from the Italian Late Upper Palaeolithic Arene Candide Cave. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 27792.
6. Galassi, F. M., Varotto, E., Carotenuto, G., & Sineo, L. (2024). Anatomical and radiological notes on the sternum of Sicily’s earliest known woman (San Teodoro Cave, Messina, Palaeolithic Period, 14,500 BP). Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, 128(2), 37-40.
7. Vita, G., Calabrese, N., Vraca, M. P., Romano, A., Vizzini, M. A., & Sineo, L. (2024). Insights into the culture of the Sicilian Epigravettian populations. Objects, ornaments and tools from trench M in the cave of San Teodoro (Acquedolci, Messina, Italy).
8. Vita, G., Saladino, M. L., Armetta, F., & Sineo, L. (2024). Geochemical and mineralogical characterization on an ochre residue adhering to a pebble found in the Oriente A Epigravettian burial, in the Grotta d’Oriente of Favignana (Egadi, Italy). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 16(10), 175.
9. Catalano, G., Iurino, D. A., Modi, A., Paijmans, J. L., Sardella, R., Sineo, L., ... & Barlow, A. (2024). Palaeogenomic data from a Late Pleistocene coprolite clarifies the phylogenetic position of Sicilian cave hyena. Quaternary Science Reviews, 340, 108859.
10. Moraes, C., Galassi, F. M., Sineo, L., Šindelář, J., Varotto, E., Mietlińska-Sauter, J., ... & Beaini, T. (2024). The anatomical bases of the 3D digital facial approximation of the Zlatý kůň 1 woman (ca. 43,000 BP). Anthropological Review, 87(2), 85-97.
11. Moraes, C., Varotto, E., Habicht, M. E., Sineo, L., & Galassi, F. M. (2024). Facial approximation of a skull with signs of tertiary syphilis found in the Skriðuklaustur monastery (Iceland, 15th-16th century AD). Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 34, e00362.
12. Lauria, G., Miccichè, R., & Sineo, L. (2024). Perimortem cranial injury in the Bronze Age. A blunt object to the right parietal caused trauma in a preadolescent individual from Mokarta (Salemi‐Sicily). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 34(5), e3328.
13. Pietrobelli, A., Sorrentino, R., Sparacello, V. S., Mottes, E., Fontana, F., Sineo, L., ... & Belcastro, M. G. (2024). 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, 16(7), 100.
14. Vita, G., Vizzini, M. A., Mulone, A., & Sineo, L. (2024). Rare Iron-bearing Rocks, Potential Precursors as Raw Materials for Pigments in Archaeology. Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry, 24(2).
15. Portaro, C., Varotto, E., Sineo, L., & Galassi, F. M. (2024). The presence of Homo in Sicily: evidence, hypotheses and uncorroborated ideas. An archaeo-anthropological perspective.

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