The tower, the sewer and the shafts. Dog and human sepultures at Peltuinum (L’Aquila, Italy)
The Roman town of Peltuinum (L'Aquila, central Appennines, Italy) was founded to manage transhumance revenues and was abandoned at the end of the 5th c. when struck by a very hard earthquakes. Within the city structures few interesting findings are related to human and fauna bones; most of the last one pertain to dogs. The archaeological situation shows that the association refer to funerary contexts, even though providing different scenarios and chronology.