Evolving ecosystems: ecological data from an Iron Age small mammal accumulation at Alorda Park (Catalonia, Spain)

The species encountered include the short-tailed mouse (Mus spretus), the Cabrera vole (Microtus cabrerae), the lesser white-toothed shrew (Crocidura suaveolens), the white-toothed shrew (Crocidura russula), the field mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus), and the garden dormouse (Eliomys quercinus). The presence of the commensal house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) is suspected. In addition, the absence of black rat (Rattus rattus) suggests that this species had not yet colonised the Iberian coast at that time.