Oriol Olesti
Biographic Data
| ID | 2740957 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oriol Olesti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oriol |
| FAMILY NAME | Olesti |
| SIGNATURE | OLESTI O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2184-5312 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tracing household economies and food technologies in the Eastern Pyrenees: Grinding at Late Iron Age of El Castellot de Bolvir (La Cerdanya, Spain)
This study presents a pilot systematic analysis of rotative grinding stones from the highland site of El Castellot de Bolvir (La Cerdanya, eastern Pyrenees), occupied continuously from the Late Bronze Age to the Roman Republican period. Focusing on the transitional phase between the Late Iron Age and early Roman influence (3rd–2nd centuries BCE), the research combines typological and microbotanical (phytolith) records to investigate domestic food…
The exploitation of mountain natural resources during the Iron Age in the Eastern Pyrenees: The case study of production unit G at Tossal de Baltarga (Bellver de Cerdanya, Lleida, Spain)
The Iron Age site of Tossal de Baltarga (Bellver de Cerdanya) was a large Iberian residential complex occupying a strategic position in the middle of the Eastern Pyrenees. It was destroyed by fire in the second half of the 3rd century BCE, preserving an important volume of archaeological and bioarchaeological material in certain areas. This is the case of Building G, a two-story construction whose violent blaze has offered the possibility of anal…
Paysages et cadastres de l’Antiquité: Chronique 2024
Une publication récente traitant en partie des centurions ex equite Romano attire à nouveau l’attention sur l’épitaphe d’Aurelius Iustus de Tarragone. L’article s’intéresse tout d’abord aux questions épigraphiques non résolues ou en suspens et met l’accent sur un récit singulier. Sous cet angle, l’analyse a été orientée sur les questions d’histoire militaire impériale et de chronologie, indispensables à une juste appréciation des apports document…
Los iberos en la Cerdanya: Arqueología y epigrafía
La lengua de las más de 180 inscripciones rupestres en escritura ibérica de la Cerdanya es la ibérica, confirmando la ibericidad de los ceretanos, que alguna vez se había puesto en cuestión. En la Cerdanya se identifican dos grandes escuelas epigráficas, la dual y la no-dual, siendo ligeramente mayoritaria la dual, que correspondería a las más antiguas, probablemente del s. III a. C. o anteriores, mientras que las no-duales deberían ser las más m…
Los Pirineos orientales en el siglo V d.C: Hacia un modelo territorial post-urbano
The Eastern Pyrenees in the 5th Century ad: towards a post-urban territorial model The Roman occupation of the Oriental Pyrenees was organized along the High Empire around some urban centres, as Iulia Lybica or Lugdunum Convenarum, connecting these mountain regions to the main economic circuits of the western Mediterranean. However, from the 3rd c. AD onwards, this urban System vanished in many regions, as the Cerdanya area, despite the continuit…
Animal Indoor Penning in the Eastern Pyrenees: The Case-study of Late Iron Age Tossal de Baltarga, Cerdanya
Over the last decades, micro-archaeological and ethnoarchaeological approaches have demonstrated the importance of animal dung deposits for reconstructing past human lifeways, primarily within caves and rock-shelters. The case study of Tossal de Baltarga (eastern Pyrenees) provides evidence from simultaneous storage and penning, along with the in situ remains in anatomical connection of several ovicaprines and a horse within a building destroyed …
Livestock management at the Late Iron Age site of Baltarga (eastern Pyrenees): An Integrated Bio-Geoarchaeological Approach
Despite the important role of livestock farming amongst Iron Age communities living in mountain regions, there is little information about livestock management, and particularly stabling practises, breeding systems, and grazing/foddering patterns. The study of the ground floor of Building G in Tossal de Baltarga has provided valuable insights into these important issues and has given us a better understanding of the social and economic patterns i…
Supplying the Roman army? Animal production and consumption in the countryside of north-eastern Iberia (Can Rubió, la Garrotxa)
In this paper we investigate the presence of the Roman army in the countryside of northeastern Iberia through the case study of Can Rubió, an archaeological site dated to the 1st c. BC-1st c. AD1. The contextualisation of the archaeozoological information obtained from the study of 1,495 faunal remains, together with the structures and other finds from the site (pottery, metal and bone objects), allows us to hypothesise that Can Rubió was a milit…
Writing instruments for managing provincial resources during the Roman occupation of northeast Hispania (2nd and 1st c. BCE)
This article analyzes the presence of writing instruments dating to the 2nd–1st c. BCE at several archaeological sites of the northeastern Iberian peninsula (current Catalonia), attempting to assess their historical, social, and economic interest. The evidence of the ancient literary sources, as well as the archaeological contexts in which these objects appeared, allow us to interpret these writing instruments as part of the mechanisms of control…
Three Roman Republican Seal-Rings Discovered in the Eastern Pyrenees and their Significance
The Roman presence in high mountainous areas has traditionally been considered marginal, but recent archaeological studies in several European regions have reshaped our understanding of the occupation and exploitation of these regions. Archaeological research conducted in the Cerdanya valley shows this to be the case in the eastern Pyrenees. The discovery and excavation of several indigenous settlements have allowed us to document an earlier and …
Behind the steps of ancient sheep mobility in Iberia: New Insights From a Geometric Morphometric Approach
Los ceretanos y la iberización del Pirineo oriental (s. IV-III a. n. e.). Una nueva aproximación histórica y arqueológica
Los trabajos arqueológicos desarrollados en la Cerdanya (Pirineo Oriental) en los últimos 15 años han permitido por primera vez definir la entidad del pueblo de los Cerretani, comunidad brevemente mencionada por los autores greco-romanos. Características como su origen, su filiación cultural, y sus peculiares pautas territoriales y económicas, han sido identificadas a partir del estudio de algunos de sus principales yacimientos. Se trata de una e…
Angoustrine-Villeneuve-des-Escaldes, Estavar, Ur, Bourg-Madame, Sainte-Léocadie, Err, Saillagouse, Llívia (Pyrénées-Orientales)
Les prospections pédestres diachroniques réalisées en Cerdagne en 2017 s'inscrivent dans la continuité de deux opérations similaires réalisées en 2013 et 2015. Les espaces prospectés sont situés au NE de la Cerdagne, à l'est des Pyrénées. Ils correspondent à sept communes localisées dans le département des Pyrénées-Orientales et une commune de la province de Gérone (enclave de Llívia). Ils intègrent une partie de la plaine de Cerdagne (environs 1…
Paysages et cadastres de l’Antiquité: Chronique 2018
Paysages et cadastres de l’Antiquité: Chronique 2017
Controlling the Pyrenees: A Macaque’s Burial From Late Antique Iulia Libica (Llívia, La Cerdanya, Spain)
The remains of a primate’s burial (a Macaca sylvanus , or a Barbary Macaque) were discovered in 2001 on the site of Les Colomines (Llívia), comprising the skeleton of the animal and some objects arranged as an offering. These offerings included decorated metallic pieces and some bronze military belts typical of the Late Roman period. The grave can be connected with the late antique phase of occupation of Iulia Libica in the 5th–6th c. A.D., and w…
Le paysage social de la production vitivinicole dans l’ ager Barcinonensis: Esclaves, affranchis et institores
L’article analyse les formes de propriété de la terre dans la colonie du Barcino pendant la période du haut-empire , et sa relation avec la production vinicole et amphorique. L’étude a permis d’identifier la stratégie productive de quelques familles ( gentes ) de la colonie. La production amphorique a impliqué une grande mobilité sociale et territoriale. Il convient alors d’analyser dans ce “paysage social” le rôle qu’ont joué les esclaves et les…
III. Lecture et restitution des paysages: Ocupación y transformación del Ager Barcinonensis en el alto-imperio : más allá de la centuriatio
La gens Licinia y el Nordeste peninsular. Una aproximación al estudio de las formas de propiedad y de gestión de un rico patrimonio familiar
En los últimos años, tanto el progreso de la arqueología del paisaje, como especialmente el de los estudios sobre la epigrafía de la producción, han contribuido a incrementar nuestro volumen de información, aunque ello no siempre ha ido acompañado de un progreso en la interpretación de los datos, es decir, en el estudio de las complejas formas de propiedad de la tierra y de la gestión de sus recursos en la Hispania romana. Creemos necesario, por …
La sortitio de Ilici. Del documento epigráfico al paisaje histórico
À "L'Alcudia", à 3 km. d'Elche (Alicante, Espagne), on trouve l'ancien site à'Ilici, une ville ibérique qui a acquis le statut de colonie à l'époque romaine. Nous savons qu' Ilici était l'objet d'une deductio coloniale après la victoire de César en Espagne, peut-être pendant la période du second triumvirat, ou à l'époque augustéenne. Récemment, les fouilles dans la ville romaine ont mis au jour un document épigraphique que nous proposons de mettr…
El origen de las villae romanas en Cataluña
En el presente artículo se realiza un estudio amplio de los núcleos rurales de época republicana en Cataluña (zonas litoral y pre-litoral), que pone en cuestión la interpretación tan ampliamente aceptada de la aparición de villae romanas desde finales del s. II a.C. Los últimos yacimientos excavados y el reestudio de algunos más antiguos permiten constatar la importancia del mundo indígena en transformación (el mundo «ibérico final») en contrapos…
Une limite de propriété rurale dans l'ager Tarraconensis
Cadastre, aménagement du territoire et romanisation du Maresme à l'époque républicaine
En época ibérica el poblamiento del "Maresme" (región costera al norte de Barcelona) estaba organizado en hábitats concentrados ("oppida") que la primera intervención romana (finales del s. III-principios del II a. de ne.) no cambió substancialmente. Durante la segunda mitad del siglo II, se produjo una fuerte intervención sobre el terriorio : abandono generalizado de los "oppida", crecimiento espectacular del oppidum de Burriac, creación de nuev…
Behind the steps of ancient sheep mobility in Iberia: New Insights From a Geometric Morphometric Approach
Livestock management at the Late Iron Age site of Baltarga (eastern Pyrenees): An Integrated Bio-Geoarchaeological Approach
Despite the important role of livestock farming amongst Iron Age communities living in mountain regions, there is little information about livestock management, and particularly stabling practises, breeding systems, and grazing/foddering patterns. The study of the ground floor of Building G in Tossal de Baltarga has provided valuable insights into these important issues and has given us a better understanding of the social and economic patterns i…
Animal Indoor Penning in the Eastern Pyrenees: The Case-study of Late Iron Age Tossal de Baltarga, Cerdanya
Over the last decades, micro-archaeological and ethnoarchaeological approaches have demonstrated the importance of animal dung deposits for reconstructing past human lifeways, primarily within caves and rock-shelters. The case study of Tossal de Baltarga (eastern Pyrenees) provides evidence from simultaneous storage and penning, along with the in situ remains in anatomical connection of several ovicaprines and a horse within a building destroyed …
Three Roman Republican Seal-Rings Discovered in the Eastern Pyrenees and their Significance
The Roman presence in high mountainous areas has traditionally been considered marginal, but recent archaeological studies in several European regions have reshaped our understanding of the occupation and exploitation of these regions. Archaeological research conducted in the Cerdanya valley shows this to be the case in the eastern Pyrenees. The discovery and excavation of several indigenous settlements have allowed us to document an earlier and …
Writing instruments for managing provincial resources during the Roman occupation of northeast Hispania (2nd and 1st c. BCE)
This article analyzes the presence of writing instruments dating to the 2nd–1st c. BCE at several archaeological sites of the northeastern Iberian peninsula (current Catalonia), attempting to assess their historical, social, and economic interest. The evidence of the ancient literary sources, as well as the archaeological contexts in which these objects appeared, allow us to interpret these writing instruments as part of the mechanisms of control…
Cadastre, aménagement du territoire et romanisation du Maresme à l'époque républicaine
En época ibérica el poblamiento del "Maresme" (región costera al norte de Barcelona) estaba organizado en hábitats concentrados ("oppida") que la primera intervención romana (finales del s. III-principios del II a. de ne.) no cambió substancialmente. Durante la segunda mitad del siglo II, se produjo una fuerte intervención sobre el terriorio : abandono generalizado de los "oppida", crecimiento espectacular del oppidum de Burriac, creación de nuev…
El origen de las villae romanas en Cataluña
En el presente artículo se realiza un estudio amplio de los núcleos rurales de época republicana en Cataluña (zonas litoral y pre-litoral), que pone en cuestión la interpretación tan ampliamente aceptada de la aparición de villae romanas desde finales del s. II a.C. Los últimos yacimientos excavados y el reestudio de algunos más antiguos permiten constatar la importancia del mundo indígena en transformación (el mundo «ibérico final») en contrapos…
Une limite de propriété rurale dans l'ager Tarraconensis
La sortitio de Ilici. Del documento epigráfico al paisaje histórico
À "L'Alcudia", à 3 km. d'Elche (Alicante, Espagne), on trouve l'ancien site à'Ilici, une ville ibérique qui a acquis le statut de colonie à l'époque romaine. Nous savons qu' Ilici était l'objet d'une deductio coloniale après la victoire de César en Espagne, peut-être pendant la période du second triumvirat, ou à l'époque augustéenne. Récemment, les fouilles dans la ville romaine ont mis au jour un document épigraphique que nous proposons de mettr…
La gens Licinia y el Nordeste peninsular. Una aproximación al estudio de las formas de propiedad y de gestión de un rico patrimonio familiar
En los últimos años, tanto el progreso de la arqueología del paisaje, como especialmente el de los estudios sobre la epigrafía de la producción, han contribuido a incrementar nuestro volumen de información, aunque ello no siempre ha ido acompañado de un progreso en la interpretación de los datos, es decir, en el estudio de las complejas formas de propiedad de la tierra y de la gestión de sus recursos en la Hispania romana. Creemos necesario, por …
III. Lecture et restitution des paysages: Ocupación y transformación del Ager Barcinonensis en el alto-imperio : más allá de la centuriatio
Controlling the Pyrenees: A Macaque’s Burial From Late Antique Iulia Libica (Llívia, La Cerdanya, Spain)
The remains of a primate’s burial (a Macaca sylvanus , or a Barbary Macaque) were discovered in 2001 on the site of Les Colomines (Llívia), comprising the skeleton of the animal and some objects arranged as an offering. These offerings included decorated metallic pieces and some bronze military belts typical of the Late Roman period. The grave can be connected with the late antique phase of occupation of Iulia Libica in the 5th–6th c. A.D., and w…
Le paysage social de la production vitivinicole dans l’ ager Barcinonensis: Esclaves, affranchis et institores
L’article analyse les formes de propriété de la terre dans la colonie du Barcino pendant la période du haut-empire , et sa relation avec la production vinicole et amphorique. L’étude a permis d’identifier la stratégie productive de quelques familles ( gentes ) de la colonie. La production amphorique a impliqué une grande mobilité sociale et territoriale. Il convient alors d’analyser dans ce “paysage social” le rôle qu’ont joué les esclaves et les…
Paysages et cadastres de l’Antiquité: Chronique 2017
Los ceretanos y la iberización del Pirineo oriental (s. IV-III a. n. e.). Una nueva aproximación histórica y arqueológica
Los trabajos arqueológicos desarrollados en la Cerdanya (Pirineo Oriental) en los últimos 15 años han permitido por primera vez definir la entidad del pueblo de los Cerretani, comunidad brevemente mencionada por los autores greco-romanos. Características como su origen, su filiación cultural, y sus peculiares pautas territoriales y económicas, han sido identificadas a partir del estudio de algunos de sus principales yacimientos. Se trata de una e…
Angoustrine-Villeneuve-des-Escaldes, Estavar, Ur, Bourg-Madame, Sainte-Léocadie, Err, Saillagouse, Llívia (Pyrénées-Orientales)
Les prospections pédestres diachroniques réalisées en Cerdagne en 2017 s'inscrivent dans la continuité de deux opérations similaires réalisées en 2013 et 2015. Les espaces prospectés sont situés au NE de la Cerdagne, à l'est des Pyrénées. Ils correspondent à sept communes localisées dans le département des Pyrénées-Orientales et une commune de la province de Gérone (enclave de Llívia). Ils intègrent une partie de la plaine de Cerdagne (environs 1…
Paysages et cadastres de l’Antiquité: Chronique 2018
Behind the steps of ancient sheep mobility in Iberia: New Insights From a Geometric Morphometric Approach
Writing instruments for managing provincial resources during the Roman occupation of northeast Hispania (2nd and 1st c. BCE)
This article analyzes the presence of writing instruments dating to the 2nd–1st c. BCE at several archaeological sites of the northeastern Iberian peninsula (current Catalonia), attempting to assess their historical, social, and economic interest. The evidence of the ancient literary sources, as well as the archaeological contexts in which these objects appeared, allow us to interpret these writing instruments as part of the mechanisms of control…
Three Roman Republican Seal-Rings Discovered in the Eastern Pyrenees and their Significance
The Roman presence in high mountainous areas has traditionally been considered marginal, but recent archaeological studies in several European regions have reshaped our understanding of the occupation and exploitation of these regions. Archaeological research conducted in the Cerdanya valley shows this to be the case in the eastern Pyrenees. The discovery and excavation of several indigenous settlements have allowed us to document an earlier and …
Supplying the Roman army? Animal production and consumption in the countryside of north-eastern Iberia (Can Rubió, la Garrotxa)
In this paper we investigate the presence of the Roman army in the countryside of northeastern Iberia through the case study of Can Rubió, an archaeological site dated to the 1st c. BC-1st c. AD1. The contextualisation of the archaeozoological information obtained from the study of 1,495 faunal remains, together with the structures and other finds from the site (pottery, metal and bone objects), allows us to hypothesise that Can Rubió was a milit…
Los iberos en la Cerdanya: Arqueología y epigrafía
La lengua de las más de 180 inscripciones rupestres en escritura ibérica de la Cerdanya es la ibérica, confirmando la ibericidad de los ceretanos, que alguna vez se había puesto en cuestión. En la Cerdanya se identifican dos grandes escuelas epigráficas, la dual y la no-dual, siendo ligeramente mayoritaria la dual, que correspondería a las más antiguas, probablemente del s. III a. C. o anteriores, mientras que las no-duales deberían ser las más m…
Los Pirineos orientales en el siglo V d.C: Hacia un modelo territorial post-urbano
The Eastern Pyrenees in the 5th Century ad: towards a post-urban territorial model The Roman occupation of the Oriental Pyrenees was organized along the High Empire around some urban centres, as Iulia Lybica or Lugdunum Convenarum, connecting these mountain regions to the main economic circuits of the western Mediterranean. However, from the 3rd c. AD onwards, this urban System vanished in many regions, as the Cerdanya area, despite the continuit…
Animal Indoor Penning in the Eastern Pyrenees: The Case-study of Late Iron Age Tossal de Baltarga, Cerdanya
Over the last decades, micro-archaeological and ethnoarchaeological approaches have demonstrated the importance of animal dung deposits for reconstructing past human lifeways, primarily within caves and rock-shelters. The case study of Tossal de Baltarga (eastern Pyrenees) provides evidence from simultaneous storage and penning, along with the in situ remains in anatomical connection of several ovicaprines and a horse within a building destroyed …
Livestock management at the Late Iron Age site of Baltarga (eastern Pyrenees): An Integrated Bio-Geoarchaeological Approach
Despite the important role of livestock farming amongst Iron Age communities living in mountain regions, there is little information about livestock management, and particularly stabling practises, breeding systems, and grazing/foddering patterns. The study of the ground floor of Building G in Tossal de Baltarga has provided valuable insights into these important issues and has given us a better understanding of the social and economic patterns i…
The exploitation of mountain natural resources during the Iron Age in the Eastern Pyrenees: The case study of production unit G at Tossal de Baltarga (Bellver de Cerdanya, Lleida, Spain)
The Iron Age site of Tossal de Baltarga (Bellver de Cerdanya) was a large Iberian residential complex occupying a strategic position in the middle of the Eastern Pyrenees. It was destroyed by fire in the second half of the 3rd century BCE, preserving an important volume of archaeological and bioarchaeological material in certain areas. This is the case of Building G, a two-story construction whose violent blaze has offered the possibility of anal…
Paysages et cadastres de l’Antiquité: Chronique 2024
Une publication récente traitant en partie des centurions ex equite Romano attire à nouveau l’attention sur l’épitaphe d’Aurelius Iustus de Tarragone. L’article s’intéresse tout d’abord aux questions épigraphiques non résolues ou en suspens et met l’accent sur un récit singulier. Sous cet angle, l’analyse a été orientée sur les questions d’histoire militaire impériale et de chronologie, indispensables à une juste appréciation des apports document…
Tracing household economies and food technologies in the Eastern Pyrenees: Grinding at Late Iron Age of El Castellot de Bolvir (La Cerdanya, Spain)
This study presents a pilot systematic analysis of rotative grinding stones from the highland site of El Castellot de Bolvir (La Cerdanya, eastern Pyrenees), occupied continuously from the Late Bronze Age to the Roman Republican period. Focusing on the transitional phase between the Late Iron Age and early Roman influence (3rd–2nd centuries BCE), the research combines typological and microbotanical (phytolith) records to investigate domestic food…
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