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Journal articles on the topic "Maltese archaeology"

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Burkette, Allison, and Robin Skeates. "Words that Archaeologists Choose." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 35, no. 1 (2022): 85–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jma.23770.

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Writing is the means by which archaeological knowledge is produced, shared and negotiated, which is why, as part of a wider reflexive archaeology, writing within the discipline has come under scrutiny. When writing, archaeologists make choices about what words to use to express their ideas about the past (even if these choices are sometimes subconscious). This study examines such choices via the application of methods from two linguistic subdisciplines, corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, to a case study of Maltese archaeological texts and terms for a specific yet problematic type of Maltese artifact (axe-amulets/pendants). Using these methods, we connect political and theoretical shifts to changes in English-language use and terminology across three periods of Maltese archaeological history, demonstrating how authors choose words that reflect the broader assumptions and understandings that inform their work. In sum, this paper contributes to an increasingly critically aware understanding of the history of colonial and postcolonial archaeology in Malta and other Mediterranean islands and encourages writers to have a heightened awareness of the taken-for-granted but fundamental part that language plays in their poetics and politics.
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Lomsdalen, Tore. "Different Approaches to Cosmology in Archaeology and Their Application to Maltese Prehistory." Culture and Cosmos 21, no. 1 and 2 (2017): 105–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.46472/cc.01221.0213.

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This paper outlines different ways archaeologists have engaged with notions of cosmology and worldview. It begins by highlighting the confusion over definitions of cosmology, particularly within archaeology and archaeoastronomy, and proposes a working definition that tries to be all-encompassing. This definition is then used to illustrate how different bodies of archaeological theory have touched upon the topic of cosmology either explicitly or implicitly. The list provided is not exhaustive but provides an overview of the range of scales (from artefact to landscape) as well as a level of engagement with cosmology (from implicit to explicit). Each of these instances is firstly described in general, followed by a more specific application to Maltese prehistory and its Temple Period. The paper, therefore, highlights the ways in which archaeologists have engaged with cosmology that can complement work done by archaeoastronomers and cultural astronomers. By drawing attention to the holistic and allencompassing nature of cosmology it is hoped that further steps towards bridging the gaps between archaeology and archaeoastronomy can be taken.
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Malone, C., S. Stoddart, and D. Trump. "A house for the temple builders: recent investigations on Gozo, Malta." Antiquity 62, no. 235 (1988): 297–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00074081.

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After many years new research is being undertaken into the prehistory of the islands of Malta at the invitation of the Maltese authorities. One of the early results of the work, started in 1987, is the discovery of evidence for domestic architecture to complement the already well known ritual monuments of the Maltese islands.
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Robb, John. "Island identities: ritual, travel and the creation of difference in Neolithic Malta." European Journal of Archaeology 4, no. 2 (2001): 175–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/eja.2001.4.2.175.

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Malta's Neolithic megalithic ‘temples’, unique in the Mediterranean, provide a striking challenge to the archaeological imagination. Most explanations have employed a simple functionalism: the temples resulted from Malta's insularity. Such explanations lack the theoretical grounding provided by studies of agency and meaning, and they do not sufficiently account for Malta's pattern of integration into and differentiation from a central Mediterranean regional culture. I argue that: (a) contextual evidence suggests that the temples created settings for rites emphasizing local origins and identity; (b) even in periods of greatest cultural difference, the Maltese had contacts with nearby societies, and Maltese travellers probably recognized cultural differences in important ritual practices; and (c) when ritual practitioners began reinterpreting a common heritage of meanings to create the temple rites, they also created a new island identity based on these rites. In effect, after two millennia of cultural similarity to their neighbours, the Neolithic Maltesecreateda cultural island, perhaps in reaction to changes in the constitution of society sweeping Europe in the fourth millennium BC. The result was an island of cultural difference similar in scale and, perhaps, origin to many other archaeologically unique settings such as Val Camonica, the Morbihan, Stonehenge, and Chaco Canyon.
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Skeates, Robin. "Towards an Archaeology of Everyday Aesthetics." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 27, no. 4 (2017): 607–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774317000622.

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The concept of aesthetics has long been marginalized in archaeology. It was originally formulated in the eighteenth century as part of an appreciation of Greek art and was fundamentally concerned with appreciating a quasi-universal idea of beauty; and as archaeologists and anthropologists recognized the distortion created by applying it to material from non-Western and pre-modern art, it fell into disfavour. An alternative anthropological approach pioneered by Howard Morphy regards aesthetics as the study of the affects of the physical properties of objects on the senses and the qualitative evaluation of those properties; this converges with the emerging philosophical study of ‘everyday aesthetics’. This article explores how archaeologists could apply these concepts, particularly through a study of Maltese Neolithic everyday aesthetics.
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Bonanno, A., T. Gouder, C. Malone, and S. Stoddart. "Monuments in an island society: The Maltese context." World Archaeology 22, no. 2 (1990): 190–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00438243.1990.9980140.

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Stanco, Filippo, and Davide Tanasi. "Beyond Virtual Replicas: 3D Modeling and Maltese Prehistoric Architecture." Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering 2013 (2013): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/430905.

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In the past decade, computer graphics have become strategic for the development of projects aimed at the interpretation of archaeological evidence and the dissemination of scientific results to the public. Among all the solutions available, the use of 3D models is particularly relevant for the reconstruction of poorly preserved sites and monuments destroyed by natural causes or human actions. These digital replicas are, at the same time, a virtual environment that can be used as a tool for the interpretative hypotheses of archaeologists and as an effective medium for a visual description of the cultural heritage. In this paper, the innovative methodology and aims and outcomes of a virtual reconstruction of the Borg in-Nadur megalithic temple, carried out by Archeomatica Project of the University of Catania, are offered as a case study for a virtual archaeology of prehistoric Malta.
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Brown, Shelby, and Mario Buhagiar. "Late Roman and Byzantine Catacombs and Related Burial Places in the Maltese Islands." American Journal of Archaeology 94, no. 3 (1990): 518. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/505833.

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Brown, Robert, David Cardona, Benedict Lowe, Davide Tanasi, and Andrew Wilkinson. "The Melite Civitas Romana Project: The Case for a Modern Exploration of the Roman Domus, Malta." Open Archaeology 7, no. 1 (2021): 1618–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opar-2020-0210.

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Abstract The Roman Domus in Mdina, Malta, has become an idealised example of the Roman presence in the Maltese Islands; the partial remains of a lavishly decorated domus that would have in its time been situated within the walls of the urbanised Roman city of Melite. The site, last excavated more than 100 years ago, is also home to the only museum in the Maltese Islands, which is solely dedicated to house and showcase a collection of artefacts that date from the Roman period in Maltese history. This site alone provides a unique perspective on Roman Malta, being our only substantial remnant from the Roman Maltese capital, and needs a refocused and renewed exploration. For a long time, the archaeology of Roman sites in Malta has suffered a distinct lack of priority, and it has only been in the last two decades that considerably more focus has been placed on understanding the Roman period. Most of the archaeological focus, in this respect, has centred on agricultural villas, and though this study has illuminated a better understanding of the Roman period, very little has been undertaken in the last century in piecing together the importance of urban Melite to the broader nature of life in the islands, as well as their place in the larger context of the central Roman Mediterranean. The Melite Civitas Romana Project offers the potential of new understanding of the domus and the surrounding archaeological environment through a modern exploration of the site and the promise of the first available assemblage of Roman material from an urban Roman context.
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Palmer, Russell. "Maltese Ceramics and Imperial Foodways: An Exploration of Nineteenth-Century Red Wares." European Journal of Archaeology 17, no. 4 (2014): 678–701. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1461957114y.0000000067.

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The archaeological study of recent periods in Malta is in its infancy. Despite the high potential for an historical archaeology of Malta contributing to broader issues, such as an understanding of Mediterranean trade and colonialism, as well as the cultural history of Malta, the archaeological resource has remained under-explored. The aim of this article is to address the situation and offer an initial classification and interpretation of local and imported red earthenware ceramics. It will demonstrate the need for such work in relation to answering questions relating to local production, international trade, and foodways.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Maltese archaeology"

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Robinson, Madeline. "Temples, Tombs and Trees: Towards A Reconstruction of the Neolithic Temples of Malta." Thesis, Department of Archaeology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18061.

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The Neolithic “temples” of Malta from the 7th – 5th millennia BP have been objects of curiosity for European scholarship since the 18th century. What has pre-occupied architects and been discussed by archaeologists is the structural design and the kinds of materials used to make the roofs of these huge, freestanding structures. The roofing of the apses and crossways has been lost over the four and a half thousand years since the end of the Temple Period c. 4,500 BP. The absence of any remains of roofing has led to the establishment of two primary sets of proposals – massive limestone roofs (the ‘Italian theory) or superficial timber roofs (the ‘British theory). Previous architectural reconstructions have been based on technical assumptions and not on the archaeology. The primary research aim of this thesis is to design a reconstruction that is based on archaeological evidence about the nature of the roofs, is architecturally stable and uses materials demonstrably available on a sufficient scale during the Neolithic period. While limestone is abundant on Malta, previous models of timber roofing have presumed superficial structures. Palynological analyses have shown however, that the vegetation of Malta from 7,200 BP onwards included suitable arboreal taxa such as Pinus halepensis and Quercus ilex that could have been used for temple roofing construction on a large scale. With this established, two temple designs are tested – one entirely composed of limestone, the other being a new composite design using substantial timber and limestone in the form of torba. The reconstruction is modelled from two elaborately carved burial chambers in the limestone of the hypogeum at Hal Saflieni. The carvings display a box entrance structure, two niches surrounding a portal, a large base slab and two or three stepped v beams above. These carvings are taken to be representative of the architecture of the interior doorways of the temples LiDAR models of the hypogeum chambers have been modelled onto 3D photogrammetry derived models of the remaining stone structures of the Mnajdra and Tarxien temple complexes to identify a possible format for the roof design. Though both the limestone and timber reconstructions are structurally feasible, archaeological evidence is lacking for the size and shape of the limestone slabs required by the hypogeum configuration. From a structurally feasible roof reconstruction that is consistent with the archaeology, further inferences can be made about the temples and their relationship to their environment, including how the structures were maintained and kept watertight; the structural modifications of the temples; their relationship to the ecology of Malta and whether cultural isolation did intensify towards the end of the “temple” culture, c. 4,500 BP.
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Pirone, Frederick S. "Trade, Interaction and Change: Trace Elemental Characterization of Maltese Neolithic to Middle Bronze Age Ceramics Using a Portable X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6930.

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The insular nature of the Maltese archipelago provides a unique opportunity to explore trade and cultural change from the Neolithic to the Bronze Ages in the central Mediterranean. I hypothesize that, during the period in which the Maltese islands were experiencing a form of isolation—owing either to their distance from Sicily and other populated regions, to the collective formation of an inwardly-focused culture, or to a combination of these factors—it is unlikely that pottery played a significant role as either an import or export in the archipelago’s exchange relationships with other communities in the central Mediterranean. I accordingly propose that ceramics were only significant in the interaction networks between Malta and its neighbors during periods when the archipelago was culturally connected to Sicily. Except for a limited number of archaeometric studies (Barone et al. 2015; Molitor 1988; Mommsen et al. 2006), analysis of similarities among ceramic wares produced in Malta and elsewhere that allow archaeologists to draw conclusions about the nature of Malta’s connectivity to other communities has been based on macroscopic observation. The present study builds on the few archaeometric studies by determining the provenance of ceramic samples based on their trace elemental composition. Included in this study were both clay samples and ceramic artifacts representing each of Malta’s chronological phases from the Neolithic to the Bronze Ages. Specifically, in order to address the question of the role that pottery played in the prehistoric trade of the Maltese islands, 392 Maltese ceramic sherds were analyzed using a Bruker III-V handheld portable X-ray fluorescence device, which revealed the relative abundance of six trace elements, namely thorium, rubidium, strontium, yttrium, zirconium, and niobium. The trace elemental composition of the Maltese pottery was compared with that of 18 Sicilian ceramic sherds and clay samples from both Malta and Sicily. The results of this research support my hypothesis in part, suggesting that neither ceramics nor raw clay materials played a significant role in overseas trade during Malta’s period of cultural isolation, which extended from the Ġgantija phase to the end of the Tarxien phase. On the other hand, ceramics played a more active role in Malta’s interaction networks during periods of connectivity with Sicily, for instance in the Neolithic Age. This study also provides the first chemical evidence that Malta exported pottery to Sicily during the Bronze Age and that Malta’s contact with Mycenaeans was indirect in nature. The findings presented here thus contribute to understanding Malta’s role in trade and interaction networks from the Neolithic to the Bronze Ages and point to new approaches to exploring the cultural change that becomes apparent in the Maltese Temple Period.
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Books on the topic "Maltese archaeology"

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Bonanno, Anthony. Roman Malta: The archaeological heritage of the Maltese Islands. World Confederation of Salesian Past Pupils of Don Bosco, 1992.

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Essays on the archaeology and ancient history of the Maltese islands: Bronze Age to Byzantine. Midsea Books, 2014.

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Bruno, Brunella. L' arcipelago maltese in età romana e bizantina: Attività economiche e scambi al centro del Mediterraneo. Edipuglia, 2004.

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Late Roman and Byzantine catacombs and related burial places in the Maltese Islands. B.A.R., 1986.

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Eight thousand years of Maltese maritime history: Trade, piracy, and naval warfare in the central Mediterranean. University Press of Florida, 2008.

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Archaeology of the Maltese Islands. MP Graphic Formula, 2000.

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Archaeology And The Sea In The Maltese Islands. Midsea Books Ltd,Malta, 2012.

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Elements of Continuity: Stone Cult in the Maltese Islands. Archaeopress, 2017.

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Azzopardi, George. Elements of Continuity: Stone Cult in the Maltese Islands. Archaeopress, 2017.

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Human-Induced Changes in the Environment and Landscape of the Maltese Islands fromteh Neolithic to the 15th Century AD. British Archaeological Reports, 2009.

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Book chapters on the topic "Maltese archaeology"

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Vella Gregory, Isabelle. "Maltese Islands, Prehistory of." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_3508-1.

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Cardona, David. "Maltese Islands in the Phoenician and Roman periods." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_3524-1.

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Renfrew, Colin. "The Prehistoric Maltese Achievement and its Interpretation." In Archaeology and Fertility Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean. B.R. Grüner Publishing Company, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/zg.15.14ren.

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Biaggi, Cristina. "The Significance of the Nudity, Obesity and Sexuality of the Maltese Goddess Figures." In Archaeology and Fertility Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean. B.R. Grüner Publishing Company, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/zg.15.15bia.

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Longhitano, Lucrezia. "Metodologia di studio di un edificio attraverso l’analisi delle malte di allettamento e rivestimento." In Spring Archaeology: Atti del Convegno, Siena, 15-17 maggio 2020. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1zcm1x8.56.

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Conference papers on the topic "Maltese archaeology"

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Clark, Christopher M., Christopher S. Olstad, Keith Buhagiar, and Timmy Gambin. "Archaeology via underwater robots: Mapping and localization within maltese cistern systems." In 2008 10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV). IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icarcv.2008.4795596.

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