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Cau Ontiveros, Miguel Ángel
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ICREA Research Professor at UB (Universitat de Barcelona). Humanities
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Professor Cau (BA, M.Phil, MA, Ph.D) is an archaeologist focused in the Late Antique period in the Mediterranean and in the archaeometry of archeological ceramics. He hold a postdoctoral EU Fellowship at the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield (UK). He is founder of the ERAUB and the series of international conferences LRCW.
He has participated in national and international levels, such as the EU funded projects GEOPRO, CERAMED and Projetto Classe working in the World Heritage site of Ravenna. He actually runs a large project of Late Roman Cooking Wares in the Mediterranean and a Marie Curie grant centred in food in Late Antiquity. In addition, he is currently the scientific director of archaeological expeditions in the Roman city of Pollentia and the late antique sites of Son Pereto and Illa del Rei, and major ceramic projects in Sardinia, Tunisia and the Balearic Islands.
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Research Interest
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I have a main interest in Late Antique Archaeology and in ceramics in the Mediterranean and particularly in the production, distribution and consumption of coarse and cooking wares. I have specialised in the study of archaeological ceramics to investigate their provenance, technology of production and distribution by the application of physico-chemical and mineralogical techniques.
One of my aims is also to investigate the transformation of the Roman world in Mediterranean insular systems. For this reason, I am engaged in archaeological expeditions at the Roman and Late Antique city of Pollentia and the Early Christian complex of Son Peretó (Mallorca, Balearic Islands) and Illa del Rei (Minorca).
As an archaeometrist I have a broad interest in the analytical study of ceramic productions including theoretical foundations of the discipline and etnhoarchaeological and ethnoarchaeometrical approaches.
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KeyWords
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archaeology, archaeometry, ethnoarchaeometry, ceramics, cooking wares, coarse wares, Late Antiquity, Roman, Mediterranean, insular systems, complex societies,
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ERC Codes
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Archaeology, prehistory, proto-history
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