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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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I am an archaeologist (BA, MA, Ph.D) focused in the Late Antique period in the Mediterranean and in the archaeometry of archaeological ceramics. After obtaining my Ph.D. (1998) at the University of Barcelona, I was a postdoctoral GEOPRO TMR-EU Research Fellow (1998-2001) at the Department of Archaeology, The University of Sheffield (UK). I returned to Catalonia with a Reincorporation Grant of the Generalitat de Catalunya (2001-2002). I was researcher for the EU project CERAMED (2003) and ICREA Research Professor since 2003. I am co-founder and the current director of the Archaeological and Archaeometrical Research Unit of the University of Barcelona (ERAAUB).
I have participated in national and international projects, such as the EU funded projects GEOPRO, CERAMED and Projetto Classe working in the World Heritage site of Ravenna and I actually run several large projects on Late Roman Cooking Wares in the Mediterranean. I am co-founder of the series of international conferences LRCW.
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Research Interests
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I have specialised in the study of archaeological ceramics to investigate their provenance, technology of production and distribution using physico-chemical, mineralogical and petrographic techniques. As an archaeometrist I have a broad interest in the analytical study of ceramic productions including the theoretical foundations of the discipline and in ceramic etnhoarchaeology and ethnoarchaeometry.
I have a main interest in Late Antique Archaeology and in pottery in the Mediterranean and particularly in the production, distribution and consumption of coarse and cooking wares. One of my aims is also to investigate the transformation of the Roman world in Mediterranean insular systems. I am the scientific director of archaeological and ceramic ethnoarchaeology expeditions in Sardinia and the Balearic Islands, including the Roman and Late Antique city of Pollentia and the Early Christian complexes of Son Peretó (Mallorca) and Illa del Rei (Minorca).
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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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