Nuovi dati faunistici del Bronzo finale e della prima età del Ferro dell’insediamento La Rocca di Chiuso (Lecco)

In 1988 the Civic Museum of Lecco carried out some excavations on the northern side terrace of the Rocca di Chiuso near Lecco. In survey 1, object of this paper, two north-south wall sections and the remain of a third wall were found. Pottery of the Final Bronze Age (11th/10th century BC) and of the beginning of the Iron Age (9th/8th century BC) were recovered from it.The faunal assemblage includes 191 remains of which only 69 were identified; it is dated between the Final Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. The sample is very small, but of considerable significance because it provides data on a geographical and cultural area that is still today barely studied in archaeozoological terms. Cattle, together with those remains attributable to large ungulates (NISP 44, almost all likely to be cattle) represented less than 42% of the identified remains. The remains of goats and sheep and of small ungulatesare up to about 30%. Pigs is of marginal importance. There were only one dog specimen, and two red deer remains. Despite its poor statistical reliability, the assemblage could reflect an economy of a community with a stable demography mainly based on agricultural activities, and consequently an open landscape dominated by fields and pastures.