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DOI10.1007/s12520-019-00790-y
Island questions: the chronology of the Brochtorff Circle at Xaghra, Gozo, and its significance for the Neolithic sequence on Malta
Malone, Caroline1; Cutajar, Nathaniel2; McLaughlin, T. Rowan1; Mercieca-Spiteri, Bernardette3; Pace, Anthony4; Power, Ronika K.5; Stoddart, Simon6; Sultana, Sharon2; Ramsey, Christopher Bronk7; Dunbar, Elaine8; Bayliss, Alex9,10; Healy, Frances11; Whittle, Alasdair11
发表日期2019
ISSN1866-9557
EISSN1866-9565
卷号11期号:8页码:4251-4306
英文摘要

Bayesian chronological modelling of radiocarbon dates from the Brochtorff Circle at Xaghra, Gozo, Malta (achieved through the ToTL and FRAGSUS projects), provides a more precise chronology for the sequence of development and use of a cave complex. Artefacts show that the site was in use from the Zebbu & x121; period of the late 5th/early 4th millennium cal BC to the Tarxien Cemetery phase of the later 3rd/early 2nd millennia cal BC. Absolutely dated funerary activity, however, starts with a small rock-cut tomb, probably in use in the mid to late fourth millennium cal BC, in the & x120;gantija period. After an interval of centuries, burial resumed on a larger scale, probably in the thirtieth century cal BC, associated with Tarxien cultural material, with the use of the cave for collective burial and other depositions, with a series of structures, most notably altar-like settings built from massive stone slabs, which served to monumentalise the space. This process continued at intervals until the deposition of the last burials, probably in the twenty-fourth century cal BC; ceremonial activity may have ended at this time or a little later, to be followed by occupation in the Tarxien Cemetery period. The implications for the development of Neolithic society on Malta are discussed, as well as the changing character of Neolithic Malta in comparison to contemporary communities in Sicily, peninsular Italy and southern Iberia. It is argued that underground settings and temples on Malta may have served to reinforce locally important values of cooperation and consensus, against a wider tide of differentiation and accumulation, but that there could also have been increasing control of the treatment of the dead through time. The end of the Maltese Neolithic is also briefly discussed.


WOS研究方向Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Geology
来源期刊ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES
文献类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/101293
作者单位1.Queens Univ Belfast, Sch Nat & Built Environm, Belfast BT7 1NN, Antrim, North Ireland;
2.Natl Museum Archaeol, Republ St, Valletta Vlt 1112, Malta;
3.Superintendence Cultural Heritage, 173 St Christopher St, Valletta Vlt 2000, Malta;
4.Univ Malta, Valletta Campus,Old Univ Bldg,St Paul St, Valletta Vlt 1216, Malta;
5.Macquarie Univ, Dept Ancient Hist, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia;
6.Univ Cambridge, Dept Archaeol, Downing St, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, England;
7.Univ Oxford, Res Lab Archaeol & Hist Art, Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Dyson Perrins Bldg, Oxford OX1 3QY, England;
8.SUERC Radiocarbon Dating Lab, Scottish Enterprise Technol Pk,Rankine Ave, E Kilbride G75 0QF, Lanark, Scotland;
9.Hist England, 4th Floor,Cannon Bridge House,25 Dowgate Hill, London EC4R 2YA, England;
10.Univ Stirling, Biol & Environm Sci, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland;
11.Cardiff Univ, Dept Archaeol & Conservat, John Percival Bldg,Colum Dr, Cardiff CF10 3EU, Wales
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Malone, Caroline,Cutajar, Nathaniel,McLaughlin, T. Rowan,et al. Island questions: the chronology of the Brochtorff Circle at Xaghra, Gozo, and its significance for the Neolithic sequence on Malta[J],2019,11(8):4251-4306.
APA Malone, Caroline.,Cutajar, Nathaniel.,McLaughlin, T. Rowan.,Mercieca-Spiteri, Bernardette.,Pace, Anthony.,...&Whittle, Alasdair.(2019).Island questions: the chronology of the Brochtorff Circle at Xaghra, Gozo, and its significance for the Neolithic sequence on Malta.ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES,11(8),4251-4306.
MLA Malone, Caroline,et al."Island questions: the chronology of the Brochtorff Circle at Xaghra, Gozo, and its significance for the Neolithic sequence on Malta".ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES 11.8(2019):4251-4306.
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