The Ca n'Oliver Iberian settlement is a very large

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settlement found in the

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mountain range, in the territory formerly known as '' Laietania'', in present-day

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.El Poblat de Ca n'Oliver
at Cerdanyola city council site. It is an archaeological site that was inhabited between the 6th century and 50 BC and, later on, in the Middle Ages.

History

The settlement was inhabited during the time of the

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. Initially it was just rows of simple houses grouped together and built within a large plot of land. During the full Iberian period, the houses grew larger and diversified, and the settlement was at its most prosperous with the construction of an access road, moat, and a field of silos for storing leftover farm products, which were later sold to other Mediterranean towns. The settlement was destroyed at the end of the 3rd or the beginning of the 2nd century BC, a result of the

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(218-206 BC), but it was rebuilt during the end of the Iberian period. Years later, with the arrival of the new territorial organisation imposed by the

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, the Iberians abandoned the settlement for good. During the 9th and 10th centuries, in the

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, the settlement was once again inhabited, taking advantage of some of the Iberian buildings and silos.

Museumization

On 1 October 2010, the Ca n’Oliver Iberian Settlement and Museum was opened, located in the settlement's old quarry, which puts on display a wider selection of the large volume objects recovered during excavations and places the settlement on 'The Route of the Iberians',The Route of the Iberians
/ref> a cultural tourism project of the

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. The museum is provided with a modern Interpretation Center intended to disseminate

Iberian culture The Iberians (, from , ''Iberes'') were an ancient people settled in the eastern and southern coasts of the Iberian Peninsula, at least from the 6th century BC. They are described in Greek and Roman sources (among others, by Hecataeus of Miletu ...

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Museumization

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