Browsing by Autor "Caroline Malone"

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Island Questions: the chronology of the Brochtorff-Xaghra Circle Gozo, and its signficance for the Neolithic sequence of Malta
(Queen's University Belfast, 2019) Alasdair Whittle; Caroline Malone; Nathaniel Cutajar; Rowan McLaughlin; Bernardette Mercieca Spiteri; Anthony Pace; Ronika K. Power; Simon Stoddart; Sharon Sultana; Christopher Bronk Ramsey
Bayesian chronological modelling of radiocarbon dates from the Brochtorff Circle at<br/>Xagħra, Gozo, Malta (achieved through the ToTL and FRAGSUS projects), provides a<br/>more precise chronology for the sequence of development and use of a cave complex.<br/>Artefacts show that the site was in use from the Żebbuġ period of the late 5th/early 4th millennium cal BC to the Tarxien Cemetery phase of the later 3rd/early 2nd millennia cal BC.
Mortuary Ritual of 4th Millennium bc Malta: the Zebbug Period Chambered Tomb from the Brochtorff Circle at Xaghra (Gozo)
(Cambridge University Press, 1995) Caroline Malone; Simon Stoddart; Anthony Bonanno; Tancred Gouder; David Trump; Geraldine Barber; C. J. Brown; John Dixon; Corinne Duhig; Robert Leighton
As part of the research of the joint Anglo-Maltese project on the island of Gozo, a Zebbug period rock-cut tomb was discovered in the south-east corner of the Brochtorff Circle. The integrity of this tomb and the interdisciplinary approach applied to its study make it a unique find from the Maltese islands and rare within the southern central Mediterranean. The article presents the stratigraphy, pottery, stone, shell and bone artefacts, skeletal remains, animal bone, molluscan samples, and radiocarbon dates from the tomb. At the same time the significance of the tomb for the formative phases of collective burial, exchange and symbolic processes in the central Mediterranean and the origins of Maltese insularity is explained.