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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 whose research focuses on the Late Antique period in the Mediterranean and in the archaeometry of archaeological ceramics. After obtaining my PhD (1998) at the University of Barcelona, I was a postdoctoral GEOPRO TMR-EU Research Fellow (1998-2001) at the Department of Archaeology, 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 GEOPRO, CERAMED and Projetto Classe working in the World Heritage site of Ravenna. I am co-founder of the international conference LRCW, and of the series Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery (RLAMP) and Limina/Limites published by Archaeopress (Oxford).
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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. 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, particularly in the study of coarse and cooking wares. I actually run several projects on Late Roman Cooking Wares. One of my aims is also to investigate the transformation of the Roman world in Mediterranean insular systems. I am scientific director of archaeological and ceramic ethnoarchaeology expeditions in the Balearics and Sardinia, including the Roman and Late Antique city of Pollentia and the Early Christian complexes of Son Peretó (Mallorca) and Illa del Rei (Menorca).
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Key Words
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archaeology, archaeometry, ethnoarchaeometry, ceramics, cooking wares, coarse wares, Late Antiquity, Roman, Mediterranean, insular systems, complex societies,
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