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A recent study from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has linked the remains of a Roman military camp in the eastern Pyrenees to the suppression of an indigenous tribe in 39 BC. The research, based on archaeological surveys and the spatial distribution of recovered artifacts, provides evidence of the dates and locations of the Romans’ actions to control local uprisings. Controlling a Final Pocket of Resistance The Ceretani, an Iberian tribe, lived in the mountain passes of Cerdanya in the eastern Pyrenees. Their rugged homeland, modern-day Catalonia, was filled with thick forests and wide valleys that were their ancestral homelands. The independent tribes did not accept the Romans’ two-century-long attempts at conquest in the Iberian Peninsula. During the chaotic