Phd in HISTORY, ANTHROPOLOGY, RELIGIONS

email: alfredo.coppa@uniroma1.it
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Alfredo COPPA
Department of History Anthropology Religions, Performing Arts
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Università di Roma «La Sapienza»
P.le Moro 5, 00185 ROMA, Italy
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NAME: Alfredo Coppa
BORN: September 15, 1949, Pescara (Italy)
EDUCATION: Laurea (Honors) Biological Sciences, University of Rome, 1974
POSITIONS:
2019-present Professor of Physical Anthropology for high qualification, Department of History Anthropology Religions, Performing Arts, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
2018-present: Member of Jonathan Pritchard Lab Research, Departments of Genetics and Biology, Stanford University, (USA)
2017-present: Scientific Associate of David Reich Laboratory: Ancient DNA, Biology, and Disease, Department of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School, (USA)
2016-present: Member of Ron Pinhasi Laboratory: Ancient DNA Genomics and Biological Anthropology, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, (Austria)
2002-2019 Full Professor of Anthropology Department of Enviromental Biology, Section of Antropology, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
1992-present Director of Laboratory of Biology of Ancient Human Populations, Department of Environmental Biology, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
1992-2001 Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Animal and Human Biology, Section of Antropology, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
1982-1992 Senior Researcher, Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo, Sezione di Antropologia University of Rome
1977-1981 Junior Researcher, Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo, Sezione di Antropologia University of Rome
1975-1976 Fellow, Istituto di Antropologia, University of Rome
ADJUNCT research POSITION:
2019-2023: Coordinator of the project: “Computerized catalog of all skeletal and dental data of Italian populations from the Paleolithic period to the Middle Ages”, financed by European Commission as part of the project: “Advanced Research Infrastructure for Archaeological Data Networking in Europe - plus – ARIADNEplus” H2020-INFRAIA-2018-1, Contract N. 823914
2019-2022: of the Operative Unit: “Analysis of the human population of south America through integrated study of dental morphology and ancient DNA” part of the Research Project PRIN17 MIUR “A multi-species
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genomic approach to assess pre- and post-Columbian population dynamics in South America” General coordinator Prof. Alessandro Achilli.
2009-2011: National Coordinator of the project “A one million years history: the role of Danakil in the origin and spread of anatomically modern humans” Research Project COFIN09 MIUR.
2008-2010: Coordinator of the project: "Realisation of a high definition descriptive digital catalogue of Egypt’s Anthropological material (Palaeo-biological)" " Executive Programme of Scientific and Technological Cooperation between Italy and Egypt for the years 2008-2010” (project 25 CultHer).
2008 - 2011: Member of the Editorial Board of “Human Biology”
2007: Winner of SYNTHESYS Fellow (ref: DK-TAF-2694) to Natural History Museum of Denmark University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
2007: Winner of SYNTHESYS Fellow (ref: HU-TAF-4004) to Hungarian Natural History Museum of Budapest (Hungry)
2007: Winner of International Prize 2007 “Fabio Frassetto” for Phisical Anthropology, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
2006 - present: Investigador Asociado of Museo del Hombre Dominicano, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2006-2009: Coordinator of the project: "Nouvelles technologies et fossiles humains: Catalogue (micro) tomographique de haute résolution et scannérisations de surfaces en 3D des restes fossiles humains et du patrimoine paléobiologique pour l'étude, la documentation, la protection, et l'exploitation" "Premier Protocole Executif Scientifique et Technologique de l’Accord de Cooperation Culturelle, Scientifique et Technologique entre la Republique italienne et la Republique algerienne democratique et populaire pour les annees 2006-2009" (project 3 BienCult).
2006-2009: Coordinator of the project: “Realisation of a high definition digital catalogue of Yemen’s Anthropological heritage (Palaeo-biological)” "Executive Programme of Scientific and Technological Cooperation between Italy and Yemen for the years 2006-2009 (project 4 Antr).
2006-2007: Coordinator of the research project Cultural Heritage Enhancement of the Region of Maghreb C.H.E.R.M., financed by European Commission 6eme Programme Cadre (Specific Measures in Support of International Cooperation or INCO, FP6-2002-INCO-MPC/SSA-2), contract N. 031724.
2006 - 2010: Member of the Editorial Board of “Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'Antropologie de Paris”
2006: Winner of SYNTHESYS Fellow (ref: AT-TAF-3011) to Natural History Museum of Wien (Austria)
2006: Winner of SYNTHESYS Fellow (ref: GB-TAF-3014) to Natural History Museum of London (UK)
2005-2009: Visiting Professor to Universidad del Altiplano di Puno (Perù)
2005-2007: Coordinator of the Operative Unit: “Sulle tracce di Homo erectus lungo la costa occidentale del Mar Rosso dall'Eritrea al Sudan: ambienti ed evoluzione degli ominini” part of the Research Project COFIN05 MIUR “Sulle tracce di Homo erectus lungo la costa occidentale del Mar Rosso dall'Eritrea al Sudan: ambienti e popolamento umano durante il Pleistocene” General coordinator Prof. Ernesto Abbate.
2004-2006: Coordinator of the project: “Ricerche archeologiche, antropologiche e peleontologiche in Marocco (reg. di Gharb-Charada-BeniHssen)” “Programma Esecutivo dell’accordo di Cooperazione Culturale, Scientifica e Tecnologica tra il Governo del Regno del Marocco e il Governo della Repubblica Italiana per gli Anni 2004-2006” (Project n. 19 del capitolo g)
2004-2005: Coordinator of the research project Cultural Heritage Enhancement of the Region of Kènitra (Morocco) C.H.E.R.K., financed by European Commission 6eme Programme Cadre (Specific Measures in Support of International Cooperation or INCO, FP6-2002-INCO-MPC/SSA-2). ), contract N. 502266.
2003-2004: Coordinator of the Operative Unit: “Modelli di evoluzione umana attraverso il Pleistocene nella cerniera afro-asiatica: la prospettiva dancala” part of the Research Project COFIN03 MIUR “Paleoambienti e cronologia dell’occupazione umana in africa orientale: la dancalia eritrea durante il pleistocene” - General coordinator Prof. Ernesto Abbate.
2003 - present: Member of the Editorial Board of “International Journal of Dental Anthropology (IJDA)”.
2001-2009: Visiting Professor to Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Musée de l’Homme, Paris.
2001-2002: Coordinator of the Operative Unit: “Origine e diffusione di Homo sapiens anatomicamente moderno. Analisi delle relazioni biologiche tra gruppi umani attraverso l’utilizzazione dei tratti non metrici dei denti e di parametri bio-culturali” part of the Research Project COFIN01 MURST “Variabilità genetico molecolare e struttura biodemografica di popolazioni umane: interazione e modelli a confronto” - General coordinator Prof. Gian Franco De Stefano.
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2001-2010: Italian representative member of the international project “Skeletal Biology, Health and Economic Development in Europe from the Late Palaeolithic Era to the Nineteenth Century” coordinated by Dr. Clark Spencer Larsen, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC) and Dept. Anthropology, Ohio State University, Columbus (OH),, Dr. Paul Sciulli, Dept. Anthropology, Ohio State University, Columbus (OH), Dr. Richard Steckel, Dept. Economics and Anthropology, Ohio State University, Columbus (OH) and Dr. Phillip Walker, Dept. Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara (CA).
2000-2001 Coordinator of the Operative Unit: “Condizioni di vita e modelli demografici delle popolazioni della Roma antica” (Life conditions and demographic pattern of the ancient Rome populations), part of the Research Project COFIN00 MURST “Fonti biologiche e storico-letterarie per la conoscenza delle condizioni di vita e delle malattie nella Roma antica” (Biological and historical sources for the acquaintance of living conditions and disease in ancient Rome) – General coordinator Prof. Luciana Angeletti.
1999-2000 Coordinator of the Operative Unit: “Ricostruzione delle relazioni filetiche dei gruppi umani attuali e fossili attraverso l’utilizzo della morfologia dentale e dei parametri bio-culturali” (Assessment of phyletic relationships of fossil and extant human groups through the analysis of dental morphological traits and bio-cultural parameters), part of the Research Project COFIN99 MURST “Variabilità Biologica delle Popolazioni Umane antiche e moderne: approccio genetico-molecolare e biodemografico” (Biological variability of extant and ancient human populations: a genetic and molecular approach) – General coordinator Prof. Gian Franco De Stefano
1997-1999 Coordinator of the Operative Unit: “Analisi delle distanze biologiche tra gruppi umani attuali e sub fossili attraverso l’utilizzazione dei tratti non metrici dei denti” (Assessment of biological affinities among extant and sub-fossil human groups through the analysis of non-metric dental traits), part of the Reseach Project COFIN97 MURST “Microevoluzione delle popolazioni umane antiche e moderne: Approccio molecolare e biodemografico” (Microevolution of extant and ancient human populations: Molecular and bio-demographic approach) – General coordinator Prof. Gian Franco De Stefano
1996-present Coordinatore of the Operative Unit: “Modelli di popolamenti umani antichi: analisi della struttura paleogenetica delle popolazioni italiane antiche attraverso lo studio della dentatura” (Human ancient peopleing models: Analysis of paleogenetic structure of ancient italian populations by means of study of human dentition), Progetto Finalizzato “Beni Culturali” - C.N.R.
1984-1988 Regional coordinator, Abruzzi, government project for the inventory of all archival information concerning population history
1981-1982 Director of Italian team, Human Biology Program of Laga Mountains (Italy) in collaboration with College de France, Paris
1979 Coordinator, study of biological data of Macaca Fuscata Fuscata, Rome Zoological Park (Italy)
ACTIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS
• PROJECT ADAMHO (Analysis Dental Anthropology for the study of Modern Humans Origin): “Origin and diffusion of Anatomically Modern Homo sapiens. Analysis of the existing biological relationships among human groups through the study of dental non metric traits and bio-cultural parameters”: Since 1998 he has developed this research project on the morphological variability of the crowns of the primary and secondary dentition of human populations starting from the Middle Pleistocene up to the present times in all areas of the world. The project entitled ADAMHO made it possible to sample the dentitions of about 3000 populations in numerous Italian museums and institutions and in Europe [Natural History Museum of Denmark University of Copenhagen (Denmark); Departamento de Antropología Universidad de Grenada (Spain); Institut de Paléontologie Humaine (Paris, France), Laboratoire d'Anthropologie du Musée de l'Homme (Paris, France), Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Université de Bordeaux I (Talence, France), Musée National de Préhistoire (Les Eyzies, France) , Musée des Antiquités Nationales (Saint Germain, France), Musée de la Société archéologique et historique de la Charente (Angoulême, France), Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Université de Bordeaux (France), Université de Marseille Faculté de médecine (France) Musée de Préhistoire à Carnac (France); University of Athens (Greece); Musée d'Anthropologie Préhistorique de Monaco (Principauté de Monaco); Natural History Museum (Wien, Österreich), Natural History Museum (London, England), Natural History Museum (Cardiff, England), Duckworth Collection
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Department of Anthropology Cambridge University (England); Musée d’Histoire Naturelle (Brussell, Belgique), Anthropological Department Moravian Museum (Brno, Czech Republic), National Musem (Prague, Czech Republic), Dolni Vestonice Archeologický ústav AV ČR (Brno, Czech Republic); National Musem (Bratislava, Slovakia), Croatian Natural History Museum (Zagreb, Croatie), Löwentor Museum (Stuttgard, Deutschland), Rheinsches Landesmuseum (Bonn, Allemagne), Institut für Anthropologie und Humangenetik University of Tübingen Schloss (Tübingen, Deutschland), Geologisch -Paläontologisches Institut (Heidelberg, Deutschland), Senckenberg Museum (Frankfurt, Deutschland), Landesmuseum (Halle, Deutschland), Schlossmuseum (Weimar, Deutschland); Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest (Hungary); University of Leiden (Netherlands); Departement d’Anthropologie et d’Ecologie de l’Université of Geneva (Switzerland)], Israel [Dept. Anatomy and Anthropology Sakler School of Medicine Tel Aviv University (Israel)], Georgia [Academy of Sciences (Tblisi), National State Museum (Tblisi)], North Africa [Musée Archéologique de Rabat (Morocco), Institut National des Sciences de l 'Archéologie et du Patrimoine INSAP (Rabat, Morocco); Musée National du Bardo (Tunis, Tunisia), Musée National de Carthage (Tunisia)], Eritrea [National Museum of Eritrea (Asmara, Eritrea), Northern Red Sea Regional Museum (Massawa, Eritrea)], USA [Peabody Museum (Cambridge, MA), Department of Anthropology Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC), American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY), Florida Museum of Natural History (Gainesville FL), Department of Anthropology Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton FL), Department of Anthropology University of North Carolina (Chappel Hill NC), Museum of Archeology and Anthropology Penn Museum (Philadelphia IL)], South America [Museu de História Natural da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte (Brasil), FUMDHAM Fundação Museo do Hombre Americano São Raimundo Nonato (Brasil), Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia Salbador - Bahia (Brasil), LEEH Universidade de San Paolo (Brasil), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco UFPE (Recife, Brasil); Mallqui Center (Ilo, Peru), Museo arqueológico Universidad del Altiplano (Puno, Peru), Contisuyo Museum (Moquegua, Peru); Museo Histórico Nacional (Montevideo, Uruguay), Museo National de Antropologia (Montevideo, Uruguay), Laboratorio de Antropología de la Universidad de Montevideo (Uruguay)] and Caribbean [Museo Antropológico Montané Universidad de Habana (Cuba), CISAT (Holguin, Cuba) , Museo Arqueológico (Banes, Cuba), Museo Comunal (San Josè, Cuba); National Archaeological Anthropological Memory Management NAAM (Curaçao); University of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico); Museo del Hombre Dominicano (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic); University of the West Indies (St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago); Division for Archeology and History Preservation (Charlotte, St. Thomas U.S.V.I.), Forth Frederic Museum (St. Croix U.S.V.I.)]
FINANCED BY: Sapienza University of Rome, MIUR Ministry of University and Research; ARIADNEplus European Commission Horizon 2020
• PROJECT POPULATION OF THE CARIBBEAN AND SOUTH AMERICA: Integrated study of dental morphology and aDNA data. Excavation of pre-Colombian sites in the Dominican Republic and Cuba.
FINANCED BY: MIUR Ministry of University and Research Project PRIN17 MIUR; MEACI Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation; Laboratory of Ancient DNA, Biology, and Disease, Department of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School; Laboratory of Ancient DNA Genomics and Biological Anthropology, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna.
• PROJECT ANTIQUITY: Study of the population of the Mediterranean basin using aDNA from the 5th century BC to the 5th century BCE.
FINANCED BY: Laboratory of Ancient DNA Genomics and Biological Anthropology, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna; Departments of Genetics and Biology, Stanford University.
• PROJECT SAFIN: Integrated study of dental morphology and aDNA data from the Pre-Roman populations of central and southern Italy.
FINANCED BY: Laboratory of Ancient DNA Genomics and Biological Anthropology, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology University of Vienna; Laboratory of Ancient DNA, Biology, and Disease, Department of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School.
• PROJECT ETRUSCAN: Integrated study of dental morphology and aDNA data of the Etruscan populations of the southern Etruria area.
FINANCED BY: Laboratory of Ancient DNA Genomics and Biological Anthropology, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna; Departments of Genetics and Biology, Stanford University.
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• FROM THE LATEST HOLOCENIC HUNTER-COLLECTORS TO ROMANIZATION IN TUNISIA: Integrated study of dental morphology and aDNA data from the populations of Tunisia from the Neolithic to Romanization. Excavation of the Neolithic necropolis of Dukanet el Katif and some Punic necropolis of the Carthage area.
FINANCED BY: MEACI Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation; Laboratory of Ancient DNA Genomics and Biological Anthropology, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna; Laboratory of Ancient DNA, Biology, and Disease, Department of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School; Departments of Genetics and Biology, Stanford University.
• THE POPULATION OF THE ARABIAN PENINSULA: Integrated study of dental morphology and aDNA data of the populations of the Arabian Peninsula from the Neolithic to the Islamic period (Sultanate of Oman, United Arab Emirates, Yemen). Excavation of Bronze Age and Iron Age necropolis in the Sultanate of Oman.
FINANCED BY: Sapienza University “Grandi Scavi Project”; MEACI Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation; Laboratory of Ancient DNA Genomics and Biological Anthropology, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna; Laboratory of Ancient DNA, Biology, and Disease, Department of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School.
• ROME PALATINE PROJECT - THE FIRST ROMANS: Study through the aDNA of the population of Rome from the founding of the city to the birth of the Empire.
FINANCED BY: Laboratory of Ancient DNA Genomics and Biological Anthropology, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna; Laboratory of Ancient DNA, Biology, and Disease, Department of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School; Departments of Genetics and Biology, Stanford University.
• THE LAST HOMO ERECTUS IN AFRICA: THE SITES OF THE BUYA AREA (DANAKIL, ERITREA): FINANCED BY: MEACI Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation; Laboratory of Ancient DNA Genomics and Biological Anthropology, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna; Laboratory of Ancient DNA, Biology, and Disease, Department of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School; Departments of Genetics and Biology, Stanford University.
FINANCED BY: Sapienza University “Grandi Scavi Project”; MEACI Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
ADJUNCT teaching POSITION:
2018-2019 Professor of “Basic Medical Scientific Methodology” for the Degree course in "Medicine and Surgery"
2017-2019 Professor of “Human Paleobiology and Paleopathology” for the Degree course in "Sciences Applied to Cultural Heritage", course held in English
2016-2019 Professor of “Physical Anthropology” for the Degree course in "Sciences Applied to Cultural Heritage", course held in English
2015-2016 Professor of “Human Paleobiology” for the Degree course in "Sciences Applied to Cultural Heritage"
2011-2012 Professor of “Anthropology” for the Degree course in " Science and Technology for Nature and the Environment" University of Naples “Federico II”
2007-2014 Professor of “Anthropology applied to the reconstruction of the populations of the past” for the Degree course in "Sciences Applied to Cultural Heritage"
2007-2010 Professor of “Elements of human anatomy: systematic skeletal system” for the Degree course in "Sciences Applied to Cultural Heritage"
2001-2014 Professor of “Biology of Ancient Human Populations” for the Degree course in "Sciences Applied to Cultural Heritage"
2001-2004 Professor of “Laboratory for the study of materials of animal origin” for the Degree course in "Sciences Applied to Cultural Heritage"
1999-2000 Professor of “Elements of Human and Animal Biology” (lectures and lab) for the University Diploma Course in “Diagnostic Techniques Applied to Restauration and Preservation of Cultural Heritage”
1995-1998 Professor of Forensic Anthropology in the Post-Graduate Specialization Courses in Forensic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome.
1994-1998 Director Post-Graduate Course in: "Tecniche di recupero e conservazione di resti paleontologici da scavi archeologici", Sapienza University of Rome.
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1991-1992 Professor of Anatomy, Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo, Sezione di Antropologia, Sapienza University of Rome.
1989-1991 Professor of Bio-Statistic, Specialization School of Nourishment, Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo, Sapienza University of Rome.
SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION WITH OTHER RESEARCH CENTERS
Demographic Research Group of Central Statistical Office, Budapest, Hungary, Prof, J. Nemeskeri, paleodemography and biodemography.
Coordinator of the anthropological unit of excavation at Ras’ al Jinz (III millennium b.C.) in the Sultanate of Oman, under the supervision of the “French-Italian Joint Project” co-directed by Prof. Maurizio Tosi, Is.I.A.O, and Prof. Serge Clezieaut, French C.N.R.S.
Coordinator of the anthropological unit of excavation at Mergarah (VII millennium b.C.), Pakistan, directed by Prof. Jean François Jarrige, Director of the Musée Guimet, Paris, within the activities of the “Centre de Recherces archéologiques Indus-Baluchistan”, French C.N.R.S.-U.M.R. 9993.
Coordinator of the anthropological unit of excavation of Gonur tepe (III millennium b.C.), Turkmenistan, by the Ligabue Foundation, Venice, Italy.
Co-Director of the “Arabian Peninsula Palaeo-Anthropological Research Unit”, Sultanate of Oman, in collaboration with Dr. Luca Bondioli and Prof. Roberto Macchiarelli, Pigorini Museum, Rome, Dr. David S. Weaver, Department of Anthropology, Wake Forest University at Winston-Salem (North Carolina, USA), and Prof. Glenn C. Conroy, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Washington University Medical School, St. Louis (Missuri, USA).
Coordinator of the paleoanthropology section in the “Geo-Paleontological Mission in Dancalia, Eritrea”, directed by Prof. Ernesto Abbate, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence, Italy.
Co-Director of the archaeological excavation of “Loma Candelon”, Dominican Republic, in collaboration with Prof. Fernando Luna Calderon, Director of the Museo de Historia Naturale of Santo Domingo.
In charge of the anthropology section in the “Italian Archaeological Mission in Yemen”, directed by Prof. Alessandro De Maigret, Is.I.A.O.
Collaboration with Dr. George J. Armelagos, Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta (Georgia, USA), on the pre-protohistoric peopleing of Sudan (granted by theForeign Exchange Program, 1995, C.N.R).
Collaboration with Prof. Peter Brown, Chair, Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta (Georgia, USA), on paleopathology and peopling problems of proto-sardinian populations.
Collaboration with Dr. Kathleen D. Gordon, Department of Anthropology Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. (USA), on dental microwear of the human skeletal remains from Geili (Sudan) to assesss diet and ecological adaptations.
Collaboration with Prof. Michael L. Blakey, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Howard University, Washington D.C. (USA), with an invitation to participate in the dental anthropological research on the “African Burial Ground”.
Collaboration with Prof. Robert R. Paine, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Texas Tech University, Lubbock (Texas, USA), on research releated to histomorphometric techniques to investigate paleonutrition and paleopathology.
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Collaboration with Prof. Samuel D. Stout, Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia (Missouri, USA), with a research related to human bone microstructure in relation to age at death determination and paleonutrition.
Collaboration with Prof. James G. Calcagno, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Loyola University of Chicago (Illinois, USA), on dental morphology and morphometry of pre-protohistoric human populations from Sudan and Italy.
Collaboration with Prof. Erik Trinkaus, Department of Anthropology, Washington University at Saint Louis (Missuri, USA), on dental anthropology of the Epigravettian human remains from Dolni Vestonice and Pavlov (Czech Republic).
Collaboration with Prof. Bruce M. Rothschild Director of the Arthritis Center of Northeast Ohio, Youngstown (Ohio, USA), and College of Medicine, Northeastern Ohio Universities, Rootstown (Ohio, USA), for researches on the paleopathology of the Caribbean populations.
Collaboration with Prof. Richard S. Meindl, Department of Anthropology, Kent State University, Kent (Ohio, USA), on paleodemographic research on the Iron Age Italian poipulations.
Collaboration with Prof. Jakov Radovcic, Director of the Department of Geology and Paleontology, Croatian Natural History Museum, Zagreb (Croatia), for dental anthropological researches on the Krapina Neandertals.
CONFERENCES BY INVITATION AND SUMMER SCHOOL:
2019 Conference on: Nord Africa: La rivoluzione neolitica e le sue ripercussioni nel bacino del Mediterraneo: uno studio attraverso la morfologia dentale. Invited from: ISMEO Associazione Internazionale di Studi sul Mediterraneo E l’Oriente, Roma, Italy.
2018 Conference on: "The biological archive" Project ADAMHO Analysis of Dental Anthropology for the study of Modern Humans Origin. Invited from: Departments of Genetics and Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.
2018 Conference on: "The biological archive" Project ADAMHO Analysis of Dental Anthropology for the study of Modern Humans Origin. Invited from: Department of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
2018 Conference on: Evolución Humana: Detrás de la pisadas del Homo erectus. Danakil, Eritrea. África. Invited from: Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Odontoiatría, Merida, Venezuela.
2018 Conference on: Dinámica Poblacional del área del Caribe – Sur América: Datos Moleculares y Mophológicos Dentales, Alcances y Perspectivas. Invited from: Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Odontoiatría, Merida, Venezuela.
2017 Conference on: A metà del cammino di Homo: Il lungo cammino verso il “sapiens” (recenti scoperte dalla Dancalia eritrea). Invited from: Museo della Tonnara, Stintino, Italy.
2017 Conference on: A mitad del camino del género Homo: hallazgos recientes en Danakil, Eritrea. Invited from: Universidad Autonoma, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2017 Conference on: A metà del cammino di Homo: recenti scoperte dalla Dancalia eritrea. Invited from: Liceo J. F. Kennedy, Roma, Italy.
2016 Conference on: Verso Homo sapiens: 1 milione di anni fa nella Dancalia eritrea. Invited from: Genetic and Anthropology Class Prof. Luca Cavalli Sforza Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano, Italy.
2016 Conference on: A metà del cammino di Homo: recenti scoperte dalla Dancalia eritrea. Invited from: Mostra Homo Sapiens in honor Luca Cavalli Sforza, Milano, Italy.
2016 Conference on: 1991-2016: La investigación arqueológica y antropológica italiana en la Republica Dominicana. Invited from: Misión Diplomatica de Italia en la Republica Dominicana, Casa de Italia, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2015 Conference on: At the origin of the humanity: The recent discoveries from the Eritrean Danakil. Invited from: IPHES Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.
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2015 Conference on: The Latest Homo Erectus from Danakil Eritrea. Invited from: Genetic and Anthropology Class Prof. Luca Cavalli Sforza Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano, Italy.
2015 Conference on: The study of human teeth in archaeology and its potential of analysis and interpretation. The Project ADAMHO: Analysis of Dental Anthropology for the study of Modern Humans Origin. Invited from: Universidade Federal de Pernabuco, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Recife, Brazil.
2015 Conference on: A metà del cammino di Homo: recenti scoperte dalla Dancalia eritrea. Invited from: Darwin Day Liceo D’Ascanio, Montesilvano, Italy.
2015 Conference on: "L'archivio biologico" il contributo del CNR alla creazione e sviluppo del Progetto ADAMHO Analysis Dental Anthropology for the study of Modern Humans Origin. Invited from: CNR Istituto per i Beni Culturali, Italy.
2015 Conference on: A metà del cammino di Homo: recenti scoperte dalla Dancalia eritrea. Invited from: Museo Archeologico di Amalia, Italy.
2013 Conference on: A metà del cammino di Homo: recenti scoperte dalla Dancalia eritrea. Invited from: Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, Italy.
2013 Conference on: A metà del cammino di Homo: recenti scoperte dalla Dancalia eritrea. Invited from: Mostra Homo Sapiens in honor Luca Cavalli Sforza, Novara, Italy.
2013 Conference on: All’origine dell’uomo moderno: recenti scoperte dalla Dancalia eritrea. Invited from: Scuola Italiana di Asmara, Eritrea.
2012 Conference on: A metà del cammino di Homo. Invited from: Mostra Homo Sapiens in honor Luca Cavalli Sforza, Trento, Italy.
2012 Conference on: Quando i nostri antenati avevano il mal di denti, dentisti nel Neolitico fra Pakistan e Slovenia. Invited from: Notte dei Musei 2012, Roma, Italy
2012 Conference on: A metà del cammino di Homo. Invited from: Mostra Homo Sapiens in honor Luca Cavalli Sforza, Roma, Italy.
2011 Conference on: Homo one million years ago in Eastern Africa: new evidence from the “yard” in the Eritrean Danakil depression. Invited from: Many Times Homo Conference, Roma, Italy.
2011 Conference on: Continuité vs. discontinuité dans les peuplements humains pendant ’Holocène. Invited from: Musée nationalle de Histoire Naturelle, Paris. France.
2010 Conference on: Gli Iitalici: un antico popolo di guerrrieri. la cultura della guerra e gli antichi italici: i dati dell’antropologia. Invited from: XII Settimana della Cultura. Museo delle Genti d’Abruzzo, Pescara. Italy
2010 Conference on: L’Evoluzione dell’uomo. Invited from: Faculty of Cultural Heritage, Bologna, University, Italy.
2009 Conference on: L’Odontoiatria: il mestiere più antico del mondo? Uno sguardo al passato per interpretare il presente. Invited from: Faculty of Odontoiatry, Sassari University, Italy.
2008 Conference on: Worldwide analysis of phenetic distances among Holocene populations from the evidence of morphological dental traits. Invited from: Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungry.
2006 Les Collections Anthropologiques du Musée de l’Homme: La Morphologie Dentaire du Paléolithique Supérieur à nos jours. Invited from: Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Musée de l’Homme, Paris, France.
2005 Conference on: Evolucion Humana en el África: los restos de Homo erectus/sapiens de Buia Eritrea. Invited from: INSAP Institut National des Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Patrimoine, Rabat, Morocco.
2005 Conference on: Uso de la morfología dental en el estudio de Poblaciones Humanas. Invited from: Faculty of Biological Sciences, National University of the Altiplano, Puno, Peru.
2005 Conference on: Evolucion Humana en el África: los restos de Homo erectus/sapiens de Buia Eritrea. Invited from: Faculty of Biological Sciences, National University of the Altiplano, Puno, Peru.
2003 Conference on: Relations biologiques entre les populations du Pleistocene Tradive de l’Eurasie et de l’Afrique du Nord. Invited from: Faculté des Sciences de l’Université «Ibn Tofail» di Kenitra (Morocco).
2002 Conference on: Morphological dental traits to reconstruct phenetic relationships in ancient populations. Invited from: CNRS - Laboratoire de Dynamique de l'Evolution Humaine (UPR 2147) (Paris, France).
2002 Conference on: L’utilisation de la morphologie dentaire dans l’histoire du peuplement humain ancien. Invited from: Departement d’Anthropologie et d’Ecologie de l’Université di Ginevra (Suisse).
2001 Conference on: Dental morphological traits for reconstruction of philogenetic and biological relationship in human populations. Invited from: CNRS UMR 152 Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Musée de l'Homme (Paris, France).
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1999 Co-director of 1st edition of the Summer School in Skeletal Biology and Dental Anthropology (Tivoli dal 9 al 12 ottobre 1999). Faculty: George J. Armelagos, Department of Anthropology Emory University, Atlanta (Georgia USA), Robert S. Corruccini, Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (Illinois USA), Alan H. Goodman, School of Natural Science, Hampshire College at Amherst (Massachussets USA), Joel D. Irish, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks (Alaska USA), Richard S. Meindl, Department of Anthropology, Kent State University, Kent (OH, USA)
1996-2003 Seminars on: Physical Anthropology and Human Paleobiology. Invited from: Cattedra di Paletnologia del Dipartimento di Archeologia dell'Università di Bologna, Italy.
1994 Conference on: Continuity/discontinuity in Central-Southern Italian populations during the Metal Age: dental metric and non-metric traits evidence. Invited from: Department of Dentistry dell’University of the Withatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa).
1992 Conference on: Paleobiology and paleopathology of the fishermen from Ra’s al-Hamra (RH5, Qurum, Sultanate of Oman, 3.700-3.200 B.C.). Invited from: Departement of Anthropology, University of Pune (Indie).
1992 Conference on: Biological discontinuity:skeletal and dental evidence in protohistoric Yemen. Invited from: Invited from: Deccan College, University of Delhi (Indie).
del Dolce (Italy)
1994 Kabbashi (Sudan)
1992 Fonte Noce (Italy)
1992-1993 La Caleta (Dominican Republic)
1992 Juan Dolio (Dominican Republic)
1991 El Soco (Dominican Republic)
1990-1994 Cueva Roja (Dominican Republic)
1990 Isca del Pero (Italy)
1990 Ash, VI° millenniun BCE, Al Makhdarah and Al Manqaz, I° millennium BCE, Kharabat al Ahgar, II°-III° century CE (Yemen)
1989 Albenga (Italy)
1989 S. Ercolano (Ostia - Italy)
1988-1992 Palazzo della Cancelleria (Roma - Italy)
1988-1989 Kabbashi (Sudan)
1986 Caporciano (Italy)
1985-1987 Celano (Italy)
1985-1987 Scurcola (Italy)
1983-1984 La Cona (Italy)
1983 Le Castagne (Italy)
1982-2009 RH5 Qurum (Oman)
1982-1984 RH10 Qurum (Oman)
1982-1991 Campovalano (Italy)
1979-1980 Saggai 1 (Sudan)
1977-1991 Geili (Sudan)
1977 Ficana (Italy)
1976-1978 Alfedena (Italy)
1975-1976 Arslan Tepe' (Turkey)
Director
2007-2020: Director of Eritrean-Italian Danakil Expedition: Anthropo-Archaeological and Geo-Paleontological Research Mission (Buya, Danakil Depression, Eritrea, Uadi Aalad and Mulhuli-amo, 1 Ma)
2006-2020: Director of the Italian Anthropo-Archaeological Mission in Tunisia “The Latest Holocenic Hunter-Collectors and Study of the Neolithic Transition in Tunisia”.
2006-2015: Director of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Ain Defali (Morocco).
2004-2018: Director of the Italian Archaeological Mission in the Gharb (Morocco).
2004-2006: Director of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Mendefera (Eritrea).
1999: Scientific director of the scientific mission “Arabian Peninsula Palaeo-Anthropological” Research Unit in the Sultanate of Oman.
1998-2020 Scientific Director of the "Italian Archaeo-Anthropological Mission in the Dominican Republic" Loma Candelon,, Don Julio, La Guazuma, El Francés (Dominican Republic)
1978 Monfenera (Italy)
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Staff
1980-1982 Tortoreto (Italy) square supervisor
1979-1980 Case Veldon (Italy) square supervisor
1977 Piana d'Ischia (Italy) area supervisor
1975-1976 Arslan Tepe' (Turkey) square supervisor
1974 Fondo Focone (Italy) square supervisor
Survey Director
2001-present Paleoanthropolgical Mission in Eritera
1999.2001 “Arabian Peninsula Palaeo-Anthropological” Research Unit in Sultanate of Oman.
1981-1982 Tordino Valley (Italy)
1980-1982 Vibrata Valley (Italy)
1978-1981 Salinello Valley (Italy)
B - BIO-ETHNOLOGY:
Physical Anthropologist
1989-1992 Cran Chaco (Bolivia)
1985-1987 Gran Chaco (Argentina)
1979 Nuba Mountains (Sudan)
C - BIO-DEMOGRAPHY:
Director
1988-1990 Laga Mountains Project (Italy)
1988-1990 Vestina Area Project (Italy)
1979-present Abruzzo Ultra I Project (Italy)
MUSEUM and TEMPORARY EXHIBITION ACTIVITIES
2006 Planning, development and execution of exhibition "HOMENAJE A FERNANDO LUNA CALDERÓN: INVESTIGACIONES ANTROPOLÓGICAS Y ARQUEOLOGICAS ITALO-DOMINICANAS EN REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA" Museo del Hombre Dominicano of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic).
2004 Planning, development and execution of exhibition "UN MILIONE DI ANNI FA NELLA DANCALIA ERITREA" University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy)
2002-2004 Development and coordination of the Archeological Museum of Sezze (Latina, Italy)
2002 Participation in the Exhibition “Vesuvio 79 A.D.. Vita e morte ad Ercolano” at University of Napoli "Federico II".
PETRONE P. P., COPPA A., FATTORE L.: La popolazione di Ercolano. In Petrone P. P. e Fedele F. (eds.): Vesuvio 79 A.D.. Vita e morte ad Ercolano. Centro Musei delle Scienze Naturali, Fridericiana Editrice Universitaria, Napoli, 2002, pp. 67-73.
2002 Development and coordination of the Exhibition ”1992-2002: Diez años de investigaciones antropológicas y arqueologicas en República Dominicana de parte de cientificos italianos” at Casa de Italia of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic).
2001 Participation in the development of the Hall of “Paleoanthropology and Paleontology” of the National Museum of Asmara (Eritrea).
1999-2001 Planning, development and execution of exhibition "Piceni popolo d’Europa" at Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt, Germany) 01/12/1999 to 06/02/2000, Polo culturale «San Agostino» (Ascoli Piceno, Italy) 04/03/2000 to 30/09/2000, Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Chieti, Italy) 08/05/2000 to 30/07/2000, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (Roma, Italy) 01/11/2000 to 31/01/2001.
COPPA A.: Analisi antropologiche sui resti scheletrici umani a cultura Picena. In AA.VV. (eds.): Piceni popolo d’Europa, 1999, Editrice De Luca, Roma, pp. 9-10
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1998 Development of the Hall of Anthropology in the Civic Museum “Villa Colleredo Mels” of Recanati, with the presentation of seven didactic posters:
LUCCI M., CUCINA A., VARGIU R., COPPA A.: La popolazione vissuta nel territorio di Recanati tra 4.500 e 2.500 anni fa. In AA.VV. (eds) Il territorio di Recanati dalla Preistoria all’Età romana. Comune di Recanati Assessorato alla Cultura, 1999, pp. 50-63
1993-1994 Planning, development and execution of exhibition "1893-1993 Cent'anni di Antropologia all'Università di Roma "La Sapienza" - Dalla cranioscopia alla biologia evoluzionistica" University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy)
1991 Participation in the development of the Hall of Anthropology of the Archeological Museum of S’ana (Yemen).
1989-1990 Development and coordination of the Hall of Anthropology in the National Archaeological Museum of Campli:
COPPA A., MANCINELLI D., PETRONE P. P.: Imparando dagli scheletri. In D'Ercole V. e Pellegrini W. (eds): Il Museo Archeologico di Campli. Soprintendenza Archeologica dell'Abruzzo, 1990, pp. 67-69
COPPA A., COLAROSSI P.: Studio della mortalità. In D'Ercole V. e Pellegrini W. (eds): Il Museo Archeologico di Campli. Soprintendenza Archeologica dell'Abruzzo, 1990, pp. 76-78
1988-1989 Participation in the development of the Museum of Celano:
COPPA A. e MANCINELLI D.: La comunità del Bronzo di Celano: evidenze antropologiche. In AA. VV. (eds): Dallo Scavo al Museo: il Sito Protostorico delle Paludi di Celano. Tecnoconsud, Pescara, 1989, pp. 49-56
1985 Planning, development and execution of physical anthropological section of "Museo Archeologico Nazionale" of Chieti (Italy)
1984 Participation in the development of the Exhibition: “Excavations at Ra’s al-Hamra 5 necropolis” at National Museum of Muscat (Sultanate de Oman).
1983 Participation in the development of the Exhibition: “Pennapiedimonte (Abruzzo)” at National Archaeological Museum of Chieti
1982-1988 Planning, coordination and execution of "Laboratory of Human Paleobiology" of "Museo Archeologico Nazionale", of Chieti (Italy)
1982 Planning, development and execution of exhibition “L'uomo di Saccopastore e il suo ambiente. I Neandertaliani del Lazio” University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy)
1980 Planning, development and execution of exhibition "Un indagine multidisciplinare per la ricostruzione di ambiente naturale, popolazione e cultura materiale nell'Alto Teramano dalla Preistoria ad oggi" Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Chieti (Italy)
1978 Planning of physical anthropological section of "Museo di Antropologia ed Etnografia " of University of Turin (Italy)
ORGANIZATION OF CONGRESSES
2007 Organization of the Symposium “Il popolamento umano del bacino del Mediterraneo: Flusso genico ed isolamento nelle relazioni fra la costa settentrionale e quella meridionale durante la transizione Pleistocene/Olocene, C.H.E.R.M. Project. Integrated approach to the Mediterranean Prehistoric cultural heritage: the case of the Maghreb”, within the XVIIº CONGRESSO DEGLI ANTROPOLOGI ITALIANI “Mediterraneo: Crovevia di Popoli e Culture: Processi Microevolutivi delle Popolazioni Umane”, Sixth Framework Programme INCO-MPC/SSA-2. CAGLIARI 27 - 30 September 2007.
2007 Organization of the Symposium “Palaeo-ecological studies and methodologies in Maghrebian archaeology: C.H.E.R.M. Project. Integrated approach to the Mediterranean Prehistoric cultural heritage: the case of the Maghreb”, Sixth Framework Programme INCO-MPC/SSA-2. GIBRALTAR MUSEUM, 09 th - 11th APRIL 2007.
2005 Organization of the Symposium “Second C.H.E.R.K. inter-partnership meeting (C.H.E.R.M. Project. Integrated approach to the Mediterranean Prehistoric cultural heritage: the case of the Maghreb)”, Sixth Framework Programme INCO-MPC/SSA-2. HOTEL MAMORA, KÉNITRA, 15 th - 17th APRIL 2005.
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2004 Organization of the Symposium "First partnership meeting to plan the future cultural heritage research in the Region of Maghreb «Du Projet CHERK vers le Projet CHERM» «CHERK Project towards CHERM Project»”, Sixth Framework Programme INCO-MPC/SSA-2. HOTEL FIRDAOUS, KÉNITRA, JULY 24 2004.
2004 Organization of the Colloquium: “Presente e futuro delle ricerche paleoantropologiche ed archeologiche in Eritrea. Lo sviluppo dei progetti di ricerca congiunti italo-eritrei” University of Roma “La Sapienza” (Italy)
1999 Organization of the Colloquium: “Antropologia dentale delle popolazioni pre-protostoriche del bacino del Mediterraneo” within the XIII° Meeting of the Associazione Antropologia Italiana, Roma and Sabaudia, October 4-8, 1999
1995 Organization of the Symposium titled "Paleodata for different geographical areas" within the Inter-Congress "Biodemography and Human Evolution" dell'International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (I.U.A.E.S.), Florence, April 19-27, 1995.
1993 Organization of the Colloquium: “Horizons of Physical Anthropology” within the International Symposium 1983-1993: One Hundred Years of Anthropology at the University of Rome «La Sapienza» - Perspectives in Physical Anthropology in view of the next millennium (Roma November 17, 1993)
1993 Organization, in collaboration with Prof. Brunetto Chiarelli, of the Symposium titled "The first 50 years of the anthropological impact of the european conquest of the Americas (1492-1542)", within the XIII Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Science, Mexico City, July 29, August 5, 1993.
1984 Organization of a "Post Congress in Historical Demography” at Civitella del Tronto, September 8-11, 1984, within the IVth Congress of European Anthropological Association.
AREAS OF SPECIAL INTEREST:
Skeletal Biology
Paleodemography
Paleoanthropology
Paleonutrition
Dental Anthropology
aDNA
Biodemography
Genetics of human populations
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Associazione Antropologica Italiana (Secretary 1996-1997, President 1998-1999, Member of Council 2000-2001)
Istituto Italiano di Antropologia
Società Italiana di Antropologia ed Etnologia
Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria
Unione Antropologica Italiana (Treasurer 1977-1979)
Associazione dei Musei Scientifici
European Anthropological Association (Founding member)
Società Primatologica Italiana
Società Italiana di Demografia Storica
Human Biology Council
Dental Anthropology Association
American Association of Physical Anthropology