Rural Malta : first results of the joint Belgo-Maltese survey project

The paper presents the first interdisciplinary results of a joint survey project in the north-west of Malta, with finds ranging from the Prehistoric till the Early Modern period. Three permanently inhabited sites were encountered dating to at least the late 6th or early 5th century BCE, with a clearer attestation in the Hellenistic/Roman and Late Antique periods. The resulting reconstructed settlement pattern of the Phoenician/Punic period suggests a managed landscape that seems to be a good reflexion of what is happening in North Africa and elsewhere in the central and western Mediterranean. At least from the Roman period on, these sites seem to have specialised on the production of olive oil.peer-reviewe

Jean Stengers en het Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis

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Belgique - Europe - Afrique. Deux siècles d'histoire contemporaine: Méthode et réflexions. Recueil d'articles de Jean Stengers

Accessible en ligne :http://www.persee.fr/issue/rbph_0035-0818_2004_num_82_1info:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

Jean Stengers en het Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis

Duvosquel Jean-Marie, Dierkens Alain, Vanthemsche Guy. Jean Stengers en het Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 82, fasc. 1-2, 2004. Belgique - Europe - Afrique. Deux siècles d'histoire contemporaine. Méthode et réflexions. Recueil d'articles de Jean Stengers. pp. 11-14

Jean Stengers et la Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire

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Bibliographie thématique de Jean Stengers

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Villes et villages :organisation et représentation de l’espace. Mélanges offerts à Jean-Marie Duvosquel à l’occasion de son soixante-cinquième anniversaire

Ces Mélanges constituent également les fasc. 1 et 2 du t. 89 (2011) de la Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire.Accessible en ligne :http://www.persee.fr/issue/rbph_0035-0818_2011_num_89_1et http://www.persee.fr/issue/rbph_0035-0818_2011_num_89_2info:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

Rural sites in Northwest Malta: results of the Belgo-Maltese survey project

This poster presentation offers results of a joint survey project in the northwest of Malta with finds ranging from the Prehistoric till the Early Modern period. The project is a trilateral endeavour of the Department of Archaeology of Ghent University (Belgium), the University of Malta and the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage (Malta) since 2008. It is an intensive systematic field-walking survey in a kilometre-wide transect, beyond the main Phoenician and Punic urban centre on the island, the present-day Rabat/Mdina. It is interdisciplinary, involving not only archaeologists, but also ceramic specialists, geophysicists, geomatic specialists / topographers and geomorphologists. Three permanently inhabited sites were encountered dating to at least the late 6th or early 5th century BCE, with a clearer attestation in the Hellenistic/Roman period and Late Antique periods. The resulting reconstructed settlement pattern of the Phoenician/Punic period suggests a managed landscape that seems to be a good reflexion of what is happening in North Africa and elsewhere in the central and western Mediterranean. At least from the Roman period on, these sites seem to have specialised on the production of olive oil. The poster presentation focuses upon the major site in the survey transect, the Ġebel Għawżara site