Archaeology and archaeological discourse in pre-Independence Malta
By: Anna Maria This paper argues that the institution of the Missione Archeologica Italiana a Malta in 1963 is the offspring of the archaeological policies endorsed […]
Year: 2017
A functional analysis of glass from an officers’ mess, Malta
By: Russell Palmer The nineteenth century witnessed an explosion in the use of glass as a material from which containers and tableware were made. No longer confined […]
Religious identity and perceptions of afterlife gleaned from a funerary monument to a young girl from (late) Roman Melite
By: George Azzopardi Possibly late during the Roman occupation of Malta, a young deceased girl had a funerary monument set up in her memory by her […]
A farewell to Neo-Punic: Taċ-Ċagħqi revisited
By: Abigail Zammit and Robert M. Kerr The alleged inscriptions in the south-east hypogeum of Taċ-Ċagħqi (within the premises of St Nicholas College in Rabat, Malta) were […]
Tradition, time and narrative: rethinking the Late Neolithic of the Maltese Islands
By: Isabelle Vella Gregory This paper reconsiders the Late Neolithic of the Maltese Islands from a broader perspective. It argues that the prevailing narrative centred on passively […]
Development proposed at a Prehistoric Site at Tas-Sruġ, Gozo
The Archaeological Society Malta is concerned about a proposed building development, to be decided in the coming weeks, which affects an early prehistoric site at […]
Għar Gerduf
Għar Gerduf is a truly unique Roman burial site in Gozo that has always attracted the attention of scholars interested in our islands’ archaeology. Already […]
Pure Stone
From about the late first century BCE, a stone-vessel industry emerged in ancient Palestine which produced a unique corpus of chalkstone vessels whose distribution is […]
Archaeo-astronomy meets Archaeology
The archaeological record of the European Neolithic is marked by thousands of megalithic monuments of varied styles. Patterns in the orientation of similar megaliths betray […]
The use of ancient DNA studies
The study of ancient DNA is becoming increasingly useful for gaining information which cannot be obtained through traditional archaeological methods. The Maltese climate is not […]