Ricerc@Sapienza

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.