The Archaeology Of Malta

Author : Claudia Sagona
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107006694
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Malta written by Claudia Sagona and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book synthesizes the archaeology of the Maltese archipelago from the first human colonization c. 5000 BC through the Roman period (c. 400 AD). Claudia Sagona interprets the archaeological record to explain changing social and political structures, intriguing ritual practices, and cultural contact through several millennia.

Author : Claudia Sagona
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316395286
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Malta written by Claudia Sagona and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maltese archipelago is a unique barometer for understanding cultural change in the central Mediterranean. Prehistoric people helped reshape the islands' economy and when Mediterranean maritime highways were being established, the islands became a significant lure to Phoenician colonists venturing from their Levantine homeland. Punic Malta also sat at the front line of regional hostilities until it fell to Rome. Preserved in this island setting are signs of people's endurance and adaptation to each new challenge. This book is the first systematic and up-to-date survey of the islands' archaeological evidence from the initial settlers to the archipelago's inclusion into the Roman world (c.5000 BC–400 AD). Claudia Sagona draws upon old and new discoveries and her analysis covers well-known sites such as the megalithic structures, as well as less familiar locations and discoveries. She interprets the archaeological record to explain changing social and political structures, intriguing ritual practices and cultural contact through several millennia.

Author : Claudia Sagona
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1192 pages
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Download or read book The Archaeology of Punic Malta written by Claudia Sagona and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's doctoral dissertation, this large volume presents data and interpretation on the archaeology of Punic Malta, c.900BC to c.AD200.

Author : Anthony Bonanno
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Malta written by Anthony Bonanno and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supported by numerous colour photographs by Daniel Cilia, this well-presented book surveys the archaeological heritage of Malta, focusing on the classical period rather than the island's more celebrated prehistoric past. Photographs, plans and reconstruction drawings present archaeological sites, tombs, coins, ceramics, artworks, extraordinary objects and other items from everyday life, dating to the Phoenician, Punic and Roman periods in turn, representing 1,500 years of history. Bonanno's narrative discusses this material evidence and considers what it reveals about the identity, culture, interaction, funerary beliefs, economy and government of Malta's rulers. The physical organisation of the island is explored through maps while inscriptions are examined as sources for religion and administration. Significant archaeological remains survive from these periods, including towns, villas and harbours, demonstrating the significance of Malta within the Mediterranean as a major trading stop. This book provides an invaluable guide to that heritage.

Author : David H. Trump
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Malta, Prehistory and Temples written by David H. Trump and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The large stone temple structures on Malta are amongst the earliest such constructions in the world, long before the pyramids were built in Egypt. This super book forms a pictorial record of all the temples on Malta, whilst also providing background information on the social and cultural history of the period. Built between c.3500 and 2500 BC, the temples reflect, and were part of, a period of great development on Malta and Gozo, especially in artistic and architectural terms. This is a clear, well illustrated account of the temple-building period, as well as of what went before and what came after.

Author : Davide Tanasi
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789694949
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maltese Archipelago at the Dawn of History written by Davide Tanasi and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays provides a reassessment of the multifaceted evidence which emerged from excavations carried out in 1909 and 1959 in the settlement of Bahrija, both largely unpublished until now. Bahrija is a key site for understanding the later stages of Maltese prehistory before the beginning of the Phoenician colonial period.

Author : Anthony Bonanno
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9060322886
Total Pages : 369 pages
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Download or read book Archaeology and Fertility Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean written by Anthony Bonanno and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume derive from the First International Conference on Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean (Malta, 1985). The field remains divided between the view supporting the existence of a universal belief in an all-pervading and all-embracing Mother Goddess – of which the fertility cult is just one, albeit important, aspect – and the view questioning the very bases of that theory. This conference showed that there seems to be a greater disposition for further dialogue. The fertility content in Near Eastern and Classical religions remains indisputable. The conference proved to be also, not accidentally, of special significance to Maltese archaeology. The volume is divided into four sections: Section I. Prehistory; Section II. Prehistory, Malta; Section III. Phoenician and Near Eastern Religions; Section IV. The Greco-Roman World.

Author : Claudia Sagona
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042917033
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Punic Antiquities of Malta and Other Ancient Artefacts Held in Ecclesiastic and Private Collections written by Claudia Sagona and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient artefacts that comprise the private collections of Malta came largely from the Phoenician and later Punic burial grounds of the archipelago. In many respects, the perception of the island's ancient population as depicted in recent historic accounts has suffered from a limited knowledge of what has been found in the islands over the last few centuries. Co-authored with Isabelle Vella Gregory and Anton Bugeja, this book forms a companion volume to Claudia Sagona's “The Archaeology of Punic Malta (2002, Peeters) and “Punic Antiquities of Malta and Other Ancient Artefacts Held in Ecclesiastic and Private Collections (2003, Peeters). More than 700 objects, many brought into the public arena for the first time, are documented in this volume. The artefacts are held in three collections: that of Joseph Attard Tabone, of the Palazzo Parisio (Naxxar) and of St George's Parish Church (Qormi). While much of the material is characteristically Phoenician and Punic, imported Cypriot, Greek, Italian and other wares demonstrate that the islands were drawn into the ancient economic and political exchanges of the Mediterranean region.

Author : John Samut Tagliaferro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788872807040
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Malta : its archaeology and history written by John Samut Tagliaferro and published by . This book was released on 2000* with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Davide Tanasi
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784911283
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The late prehistory of Malta: Essays on Borġ in-Nadur and other sites written by Davide Tanasi and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-05-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borg in-Nadur, Malta, is a major multi-period site, with archaeological remains that span several thousand years. Excavations were carried out here in 1881 and again in 1959. This volume provides an exhaustive account of the stratigraphy, the pottery, the lithic assemblages, the bones, and the molluscs.