Tra i Vertebrati, infatti, i Roditori (quasi tutti Apodemus) rappresentano oltre il 65% dei resti ed il 45% degli individui sono presenti, inoltre, i resti di almeno 24 individui di 9 diversi taxa, determinati talvolta a livello di specie o di genere, talvolta a livello di ordine o almeno di classe. Sono stati infatti esaminati 604 resti faunistici (10 frammenti di guscio di Molluschi e 594 resti di Vertebrati), la maggioranza dei quali sono di Roditori. L’insieme faunistico analizzato in questo lavoro non consente confronti puntuali con altri siti e, al momento, appare come un unicum archeozoologico. The global genetic homogeneity might be due to accidental human-mediated introductions or to the sharp decline of the habitat of the harvest mouse, which may in turn have caused severe bottlenecks in the populations of this small rodent. Harvest mice have recently conquered Southern Europe, i.e., possibly at the start of the Holocene. In the comparative phylogenetic tree, Northern Italy samples clustered together as a sister group of the rest of Europe, whereas those from Central Italy clustered with Central Europe samples. We recorded a very low genetic diversity, in line with the rest of the harvest mouse range. Mitochondrial cytochrome-b gene was amplified from 12 samples from throughout the Italian range. In this work, we analysed for the first time the genetic diversity of harvest mouse populations in Italy, and we compared them with those of the rest of Eurasia. The Italian peninsula represented one of the main glacial refugia during climatic oscillations of the Pleistocene, currently being a biodiversity hotspot. Moreover, some species denote an ecological as well as a bio-geographical interest: Clethrionomys glareolus and Martes martes – which at present can be found only in mountainous and hilly woods – and Apodemus agrarius and Micromys minutus, whose distribution in historical age is not well known.
At present such an environmental complexity is impossible to find along the Upper Adriatic coastal area. The fauna indicates a great variety of biotopes, mainly characterised by marshes and woods. The faunal sample is interesting as being represented almost only by little and medium-sized wild species, while coeval archaeological sites generally give back high percentages of domesticated or hunted animals remains.
A.D.) have been found the pit was filled with warp containing several osteological remains. During the following excavation the remains of a roman pit (I sec. Some drillings have been carried out in June 1998 by the Soprintendenza Archelogica del Veneto in the underground of Lova di Campagna Lupia (province of Venice, N-E Italy), along the Cornio canal.
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