Temple landscapes : fragility, change and resilience of Holocene environments in the Maltese Islands /

Temple landscapes : fragility, change and resilience of Holocene environments in the Maltese Islands /

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Imprint:	Cambridge, UK : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, [2020] ©2020
Description:	xxiv, 569 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 29 x 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Fragility and sustainability : studies on early Malta, the ERC-funded FRAGSUS Project ; volume 1 McDonald Institute monographs McDonald Institute monographs.
Subject:	Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Malta. Landscape archaeology -- Malta. Environmental archaeology -- Malta. Geology, Stratigraphic -- Holocene. Antiquities. Antiquities, Prehistoric. Environmental archaeology. Geology, Stratigraphic. Holocene Geologic Period. Landscape archaeology. Malta -- Antiquities. Malta.
Format:	Map Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12680261

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Other authors / contributors:	French, C. A. I. (Charles A. I.) editor, author, illustrator. Hunt, Chris O., editor, author, illustrator. Grima, Reuben, editor, author.
ISBN:	9781902937984 1902937988
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-349) and index.
Summary:	The ERC-funded FRAGSUS Project (Fragility and sustainability in small island environments: adaptation, cultural change and collapse in prehistory, 2013-18), led by Caroline Malone (Queens University Belfast) has explored issues of environmental fragility and Neolithic social resilience and sustainability during the Holocene period in the Maltese Islands. This, the first volume of three, presents the palaeo-environmental story of early Maltese landscapes. The project employed a programme of high-resolution chronological and stratigraphic investigations of the valley systems on Malta and Gozo. Buried deposits extracted through coring and geoarchaeological study yielded rich and chronologically controlled data that allow an important new understanding of environmental change in the islands. The study combined AMS radiocarbon and OSL chronologies with detailed palynological, molluscan and geoarchaeological analyses. These enable environmental reconstruction of prehistoric landscapes and the changing resources exploited by the islanders between the seventh and second millennia bc.

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