{"id":42128,"date":"2019-09-04T13:16:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T11:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icac.cat\/en\/?p=42128"},"modified":"2019-09-05T14:19:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T12:19:16","slug":"romans-in-the-pyrenees-at-2500-m-summer-excavation-works-in-meranges-give-us-new-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/actualitat\/noticies\/2019\/romans-in-the-pyrenees-at-2500-m-summer-excavation-works-in-meranges-give-us-new-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Romans in the Pyrenees, at 2,500 m? Summer excavation works in Meranges give us new evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Excavation works carried out this summer in the area of Meranges (between July 11 and 19) provide new data on the presence of Roman settlements in the high mountains.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A research team lead by the\u00a0GIAP<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0worked in two archaeological sites, located in the headwaters of the Duran and in Coll de Mulleres (Meranges, Cerdanya). By summer 2018, a first exploration campaign led to document 78 farming structures grouped in 13 archaeological sites, and to inventory three other more. The archaeological sites corresponded to farming units that showed different occupation stages. The results, very positive, motivated\u00a0a new excavation campaign that allowed to carry out diagnostic surveys and to characterise the oldest phases of occupation.<\/p>\n

As a result of 2019 excavation works we can know that the Coll de Mulleres site dates from the Ibero-Roman era<\/strong>, with a chronology between II B.C. and I B.C., looking forward the results of radiocarbon dating analysis. The structures discovered seem to correspond to long-term occupations initiated in the Neolithic and with continuity until modern times.<\/p>\n

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The archaeological site of Coll de Mulleres I, Meranges. At the foot of the Puigpedr\u00f3s mountain (2,450 m). Photo: Josep M. Palet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Among different recovered materials (pottery, metals, crystals…), special mention should be made of the\u00a0presence of sigillata ceramics<\/em><\/strong>, a characteristic type of bright red Roman pottery. This finding is been very positively valued by the researchers and is a sign of the Roman influence in the Pyrenees.<\/p>\n

The specific features of the site \u2013with extraordinary territorial visibility\u2013 along with the documented archaeological materials suggest its importance as a surveillance spot of the territory<\/strong>, in addition to its livestock function.<\/p>\n

The excavation campaign belongs to the research project\u00a0\u00abCultural Mountain Landscapes Archaeology in the headwaters of Ter and Segre (Ripoll\u00e8s-Cerdanya)\u00bb<\/a>, led by\u00a0Josep Maria Palet<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0L\u00eddia Colominas<\/strong><\/a>, financed by the Culture Department of the Catalan Government (Quadrennial Research Projects Program).<\/p>\n

All the work team were ICAC members:\u00a0Josep Maria Palet<\/strong> <\/a>(acting director of the ICAC and leading investigator at the research group GIAP), L\u00eddia Colominas<\/strong><\/a> (postdoctoral researcher), Abel Gallego<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Jes\u00fas Mart\u00ednez<\/strong><\/a> (PhD candidates), Katie Tardio<\/strong><\/a> (PhD Fulbright Research Fellowship), and\u00a0Mariona Montes<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Daniel Ben\u00edtez<\/strong> (students of the Master on Classical Archaeology<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Excavation works carried out this summer in the area of Meranges (between July 11 and 19) provide new data on the presence of Roman settlements in the high mountains. A research team lead by the\u00a0GIAP\u00a0worked in two archaeological sites, located in the headwaters of the Duran and in Coll de Mulleres (Meranges, Cerdanya). By summer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":42086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[342,334,333],"tags":[469,284,239,428,238],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42138,"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42128\/revisions\/42138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}