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The Maltese islands are located in the central Mediterranean and cover just over 300 square kilometres. However, in spite of their small size, during the Neolithic a group of people settled on the islands and started building enormous megalithic buildings. Why did they build so many? What were they for?
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Ashby, T., R.N. Bradley, T.E. Peet & N. Tagliaferro. (1913). Excavations in 1908–11 in various megalithic buildings in Malta and Gozo. Papers of the British School at Rome 6 (1), 1–126.
Ashby, T. and Zammit, T. (1916). 1. Excavations in Malta in 1914. Man, 16, pp.1-6.
Bonanno, A. (2008). Insularity and isolation: Malta and Sicily in prehistory. In A. Bonanno, & P. Militello (Eds.), Malta in the Hybleans, the Hybleans in Malta pp. 27-37. Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali.
Bugeja, A., Revisiting the Farrugia-Gravino albums of archaeological sites.
Museum reports: https://culture.gov.mt/en/culturalheritage/Pages/Museums-Annual-Reports-(MAR).aspx
Trump, D., H. (2002). Malta. Prehistory and temples. Santa Venera: Midsea Books Ltd.
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Entrance to blue Grotto, Capri, credit: Ekrem Canli
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Image of the Neolithic shipwreck site credit: Naples Superintendency for Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape
The Maltese islands are located in the central Mediterranean and cover just over 300 square kilometres. However, in spite of their small size, during the Neolithic a group of people settled on the islands and started building enormous megalithic buildings. Why did they build so many? What were they for?
#ancient #ancienthistory #neolithic
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✨ REFERENCES
Ashby, T., R.N. Bradley, T.E. Peet & N. Tagliaferro. (1913). Excavations in 1908–11 in various megalithic buildings in Malta and Gozo. Papers of the British School at Rome 6 (1), 1–126.
Ashby, T. and Zammit, T. (1916). 1. Excavations in Malta in 1914. Man, 16, pp.1-6.
Bonanno, A. (2008). Insularity and isolation: Malta and Sicily in prehistory. In A. Bonanno, & P. Militello (Eds.), Malta in the Hybleans, the Hybleans in Malta pp. 27-37. Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali.
Bugeja, A., Revisiting the Farrugia-Gravino albums of archaeological sites.
Museum reports: https://culture.gov.mt/en/culturalheritage/Pages/Museums-Annual-Reports-(MAR).aspx
Trump, D., H. (2002). Malta. Prehistory and temples. Santa Venera: Midsea Books Ltd.
✨ PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS
CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
Entrance to blue Grotto, Capri, credit: Ekrem Canli
Google Earth
All locations
Other
Image of the Neolithic shipwreck site credit: Naples Superintendency for Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape
