Miguel Angel Cau Ontiveros

Investigador ICREA

ORCID: 0000-0002-1138-157X

Scopus Author ID: 8155118400

Research group:

IP Institut d'Arqueologia
IP Equip de Recerca Arqueològica i Arqueomètrica de la Universitat de Barcelona

Contact Information
Department of History and Archaeology
Baldiri Reixac s/n
934409200
macau(a)ub.edu

Current Position

Director de l'Equip de Recerca Arqueològica i Arqueomètrica de la Universitat de Barcelona (ERAAUB)

Academic Training

Geografia i Història . Universitat de Barcelona . 1990 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Museologia i Patrimoni . Universitat de Barcelona . 1998 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Geografia i Història . Universitat de Barcelona . 1997 . (Ph.D.)

Research interests

Archaeological and Analytical Study of Mediterranean Late Roman Cooking and Coarse Wares

Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology and Ethnoarchaeometry

Late Antique Settlement Patterns

The transformation of the Roman world in Mediterranean islands systems

Food in Late Antique Mediterranean

Relevant publications (Journal Publications and Other publications)

Cau Ontiveros, M. Á.; Montana, G.; Tsantini, E.; Randazzo, L. (2015). Ceramic ethnoarchaeometry in Western Sardinia: production of cooking ware at Pabillonis. Archaeometry, 57(3), pp. 453 - 475 . https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12100 . ISSN: 0003-813X

Cau, M.Á.; Van Strydonck, M.; Boudin, M.; Mas Florit, C.; Mestres, J.S.; Cardona, F.; Chávez, Mª.E.; Orfila, M. (2017). Christians in a Muslim World? Radiocarbon dating of the cemetery over the forum of Pollentia (Mallorca, Balearic Islands). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 9(7), pp. 1529 - 1538 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-016-0325-0 . ISSN: 1866-9557

Cau Ontiveros, M.Á.; Tsantini, E.; Fantuzzi, L.; Ramon, J. (2019). Archaeometric characterisation of Late Antique pottery from the rural site of Ses Païsses de Cala d'Hort (Eivissa, Balearic Islands, Spain). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11, pp. 627 - 649 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1866-9557

Cau Ontiveros, M.A.; Fantuzzi, L.; Tsantini, E.; Ribera Lacomba, A.; Rosselló Mesquida, M. (2019). Archaeometric Characterization of Common and Cooking Wares from the Late Antique City of Valentia (Valencia, Spain). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11(8), pp. 4035 - 4057 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1866-9557

Cau Ontiveros, M.Á., Martínez Farreras, V., Pecci A., Mas-Florit, C., Fantuzzi, L. (2018). Provenance and Content of Roman Amphorae from the Site of Sa Mesquida (Mallorca, Spain). Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, 18(2), pp. 87 - 105 . ISSN: 1108-9628

Cau Ontiveros, M.A.; Day, P.M.; Montana, G. (2002). Secondary calcite in archaeological ceramics: evaluation of alteration and contamination processes by thin section study . In V. Kilikoglou, A, Hein and Y. Maniatis (eds.), Modern Trends in Ancient Ceramics, Oxford, BAR, International Series . (pp. 9 - 18) . Archaeopress Publishers of British Archaeological Reports Gordon House 276 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 7ED England . ISBN: 1-84171-289-2 .

Cau, M. (2007). Mediterranean Late Roman cooking wares: evidence from the Balearic islands . In LRCWII. Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and Archaeometry . (pp. 219 - 246) . Archaeopress Publishers of British Archaeological Reports Gordon House 276 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 7ED England .

Cau Ontiveros, M. A. and Mas Florit, C. (2019). Change and Resilience. The occupation of Mediterranean Islands in Late Antiquity, Joukowsky Institute Publication 9, Oxbow Books, Oxford . In The occupation of Mediterranean Islands in Late Antiquity . Oxbow books . ISBN: 978-1-78925-180-7 .

Cau, M.Á. (2012). Urban change in Late Antiquity in the Balearic Islands . In N. Christie; A. Augenti /eds.), Urbes Extinctae. Approaches to archaeologies of abandoned classical towns . (pp. 115 - 144) . Ashgate Publishing Company .

Cau, M.Á.; Mas, C. (2012). The early Bizantine period in Balearic Islands . In E. Zanini; P. Pergola; D. Michaelidis (eds.), The Insular System of early Byzantine Mediterranean . Archaeopress Publishers of British Archaeological Reports Gordon House 276 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 7ED England .

Projects

Poblamiento y cerámica en las Islas Baleares durante la Antigüedad Tardía . 2004 - 2005 . Ref.HUM2004-00663/HIST . Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología . PI: Miguel Angel Cau Ontiveros

Production, trade and consumption of food in late antiquity and early middle ages (PROFOLANT) . 2009 - 2011 . Ref.PIEF-GA-2009-235863 . Unió Europea . PI: Miguel Angel Cau Ontiveros; Alessandra Pecci

Arqueología y arqueometría de cerámicas de cocina tardorromanas en el Mediterráneo occidental: Una aproximación integral . 2010 - 2012 . Ref.HAR2009-08290 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Miguel Angel Cau Ontiveros

Equip de Recerca Arqueològica i Arqueomètrica de la Universitat de Barcelona . 2017 - 2021 . Ref.2017SGR1043 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Miguel Angel Cau Ontiveros

Arqueología, Teledetección y Arqueometría: una aproximación multidisciplinar al paisaje y las cerámicas desde el período romano al medieval en Mallorca (Islas Baleares) . 2018 - 2021 . Ref.HAR2017-83335-P . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Miguel Angel Cau Ontiveros

Directed Thesis, minor thesis and research reports

Silvia Alcaide González . (2011) . Arquitectura cristiana balear en la antigüedad tardía (siglos V-X d.C) (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

Catalina Mas Florit . (2013) . El poblamiento de Mallorca durante la Antigüedad Tardía (ca. 300-902/903): la transformación del mundo rural(ca.300-902/903) (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.

Bartomeu Vallori Márquez . (2012) . La ciudad romana de Pollentia: arquitectura y urbanismo (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.

Fantuzzi, L . (2015) . Caracterización arqueométrica de ánforas tardorromanas del nordeste de la península ibérica (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.

Alejandro Valenzuela . (2015) . La gestió dels recursos animals en la integració de les Illes Balears al món romà, Universitat de Barcelona Secretaria del tribunal (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.