New lagoon communities between the Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Jesolo and Cittanova

The lagoon of the northern Adriatic represents an interesting space where we can study the birth and evolution of settlements between the Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. The paper wants to highlight these processes, analyzing the first results of an archaeological project led by the University Ca' Foscari of Venice in two sites: Jesolo, a proper lagoon community during the Middle Ages, and Cittanova, properly a river community, strictly connected to Jesolo and the Venetian lagoon.