The most singular and sumptuous find to date in the excavations carried out in Ceretan territory is undoubtedly the seal-ring that this entry contains. The ring was used to mark and authenticate in wax documentation produced on wax tablets. It was found at the Tossal de Baltarga site in La Cerdanya. The 3D model of […]
Until the industrial revolution, ceramics was the material from which the vast majority of cooking and eating utensils were made. At the Tossal de Baltarga site, our project has excavated two interesting pieces that document how the Ceretans fed themselves. For your study and contemplation, we attach here two 3D models of the objects. Ceramic […]
Food production in the Iberian and Roman world depended to a large extent on the production of flour from cereals. For this reason, it is very common to find millstones used for the production of these flours in archaeological excavations. In this case, the 3D stone models presented here were found at the Castellot de […]
One of the most common finds in the archaeological excavations carried out by our project is that of loom weights. These were fundamental to the domestic activity of ancient societies, and their presence in the archaeological record is very frequent. For their better study and dissemination, we share three 3D models made of three different […]
The success of the first conference on Pyrenean archaeoelogy, and the dissemination of its results in volume 21 of the journal Treballs d’Arqueologia, prompted the holding of a second conference in 2020. The aim of this second congress was to continue promoting spaces for research and reflection from the Pyrenean territory and for the Pyrenean […]
The research activity carried out by our project led, in 2016, to the holding of the first conference on Pyrenean archaeology. An event that has its raison d’être in the significant advances made in historical and archaeological research. With the aim of giving them a wider scope and projection, as well as trying to promote […]
The article intervenes in the historiographical debate concerning the violent arrival of barbarian peoples in north-eastern Hispania. Reacting against the historiographical tendency that claims that the documented destructions are the product of an internal political and social crisis of the Roman Empire itself, the article defends the substantive weight that the Frankish and Germanic incursions […]
This essay takes a broad approach to the phenomenon of wine production in the Roman Layetania of the High Empire, approaching the problem by taking into account the interweaving of all its constituent elements. Wine production in the region is analysed in terms of its social and historical framework: forms of land ownership, social landscape, […]
The text analyses the figure of the freedman Lucius Licinius Secundus, dependent on the Roman consul Lucius Licinius Sura, as well as the close relations he maintained with other freedmen and slaves of the Ager Barcinonensis. His role, like that of most of these freedmen, can be linked to the production of Layetan wine and […]
This text, the product of research carried out in the province of Barcelona – in the landscape of Laietània– deals with the study of the historical Roman landscape from an approach to the villae and the different rural settlements. By studying the dialectic relationship between the Roman community and its territory, it delves into the […]