Agriculture and Environment at Servia
Wild animal bones
The initial archaeozoological results identified Cervus (red deer) and Capreolus (roe deer) to be the commonest undoubtedly wild animals present in the environment, favouring closed woodland and scrub, respectively. Wild pig are likely to have been present, and probably wild cattle; but their separation from domestic congeners is problematic. The ecological value of the preliminary synthesis was that it indicated that the hunting of deer declined gradually during the life of the settlement, implying (in turn) that a gradual retreat of the woodland without dramatic ecological change.