Publication

2020 - McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

Language

English

Word Count

121,000 words, Guess

Page Count

484 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781902937984
  • ISBN-101902937988
  • OCLC Control Number1249752812
  • Better World Books9781902937984
  • Open LibraryOL33847344M

Classifications

  • LCCGN845.M3 T46 2020

Description

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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