Cau Ontiveros, Miguel Ángel
Humanities
Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
Phone +34934037534
Email macau@ub.edu
Department Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology
Address c/ Montalegre, 6-8
Keywords
archaeology
archaeometry
ethnoarchaeometry
ceramics
cooking wares
coarse wares
Late Antiquity
Roman
Mediterranean
island systems
Balearics
complex societies.
Short biography
I am an archaeologist focused on Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean archaeology and archaeometry. After my Ph.D. (1998) (University of Barcelona), I was a postdoctoral TMR-EU Research Fellow (1998-2001) at the University of Sheffield (UK). I returned to Catalonia with an AGAUR Return Grant (2001-2002) and as a researcher for the EU project CERAMED (2003). I am an ICREA Research Professor since 2003 and current director of the ERAAUB Research Unit and of the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Barcelona (IAUB). I have participated in national and EU projects, such as GEOPRO, CERAMED, and Progetto Classe (World Heritage site of Ravenna). I have been Visiting Professor at the universities of Cagliari, Sassari (Italy), and Brown (USA). I am a co-founder of the international conference LRCW, and of the series Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery and Limina/Limites: Archaeologies, histories, islands, and borders in the Mediterranean (365-1556).