Catalogue of artefacts from Malta in the British Museum / Josef Mario Briffa SJ and Claudia Sagona.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Briffa, Josef Mario, author.

Sagona, Claudia, 1956- author.

Series:

Archaeopress archaeology.

Archaeopress archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiquities, Prehistoric--Malta.

Antiquities, Prehistoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 326 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [Archaeopress], [2017]

Summary:

The archaeology of the Maltese archipelago is remarkable. Lying at the heart of the central Mediterranean, ancient lives were, at times, moulded by isolation and harsh elements and the landscape is shaped by millennia of intensive land use. Ancient finds from the islands are rare, and those held in the British Museum form an important collection. Represented is a wide cultural range, spanning the Early and Late Neolithic, the Bronze Age, Roman and more recent historic periods. From the early 1880s, Malta attracted a fascinating array of historians, collectors and travellers and, on one level, the British Museum's holdings represent their activities, but on another, the collections reflect the complex path antiquarianism has played out in Malta as it moved steadily toward fledgling archaeological investigations. Significantly, artefacts excavated by notable Maltese archaeologist, Sir Themistocles Zammit, at the key Neolithic site of Tarxien, and those uncovered by Margaret Murray at Bor? in-Nadur form a crucial part of the collection.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781784915896

1784915890