Dr Nicholas Vella
Department of Classics and Archaeology
In press The western Phoenicians in Malta (review article).
Journal of Roman Archaeology 18 [submitted in 2004].
In press The National curriculum and the politics of archaeology [Malta case-study] co-authored with Jonathan Borg and Joseph Magro Conti. In The TEMPER project edited by Louise Doughty and Ian Hodder. Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research [submitted in 2004].
In press Water Journeys of the Dead: a glimpse into Phoenician and Punic eschatology, co-authored with Anthony J. Frendo and Aloisia de Trafford. In Atti del V Congresso Internazionale di Studi Fenici e Punici, Palermo-Marsala, 2-8 ottobre 2000 [submitted in 2001].
2005 A maritime perspective: looking for Hermes in an ancient seascape. In The Greek Islands and the Sea. Proceedings of the First International Colloquium held at The Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London 21-22 September 2001 edited by J. Chrysostomides, Ch. Dendrinos and J. Harris, pp. 33-57. Camberley: Prophyrogenitus.
2005 La Geografia di Tolomeo e le rotte marittime mediterranee. In Líhistoire des routes maritimes en Méditerranée: Atti del IV seminario ANSER, Genova 2004 edited by Rita Turchetti and Lorenza DeMaria.
2004 Bones and bowls: preliminary interpretation of the faunal remains from the Punic levels in Area B, at the temple of Tas-Silg, Malta co-authored with André Corrado and Anthony Bonanno. In Behaviour behind bones: the zooarchaeology of ritual, religion, status and identity edited by Sharyn Jones O'Day, Wim Van Neer and Anton Ervynck, pp. 47-53. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2004.
2004 The Prehistoric Temples at Kordin III, Kordin. Malta: Midsea Books for Cambridge University (TEMPER project).
2003 Report of excavations of a Punic tomb, Bajda Ridge, Xemxija (Malta), co-authored with A. Borg, D. Borg, N. J. Cardona, K. Chetchuti-Bonavita, E. DeGaetano, K. Fenech, C. Sagona, J. Samut-Tagliaferro, I. Vella Gregory. Malta Archaeological Review 5: 16-22.
2003 Whose past? The public and archaeology in the 21st century. Annual Report 2001, University of Malta: 37-39.
2002 The lie of the land: Ptolemy's temple of Hercules in Malta. Ancient Near Eastern Studies 38: 53-82
2002 The Stratigraphy. In Preliminary Report of the University of Malta Excavations at Tas-Silg (1996-1998), co-authored with Mr Simon Mason (Kent County Archaeology), edited by Anthony Bonanno and Anthony J. Frendo with the assistance of Nicholas C. Vella. Mediterranean Archaeology 13 [2000]: 71-83.
2001 Defining Phoenician religious space: Oumm el-ëAmed reconsidered. Ancient Near Eastern Studies 37: 27-55.
2001 Harris Dunscombe Colt in Malta, co-authored with Rupert L. Chapman (Palestine Exploration Fund). Palestine Exploration Quarterly 133: 50-55.
2001 "I have a story to tell you": Teresa Strickland Colt and the Malta War Relief Fund. Melita Historica 13/1 (2000): 39-48.
2001 Preliminary Report of an Archaeological Survey at G_ajn Klieb, Rabat (Malta), with K. Borda, J. M. Briffa, K. Fenech, K. Grinde, E. Scerri, M. Sisk, H. Stöger and M. E. Zammit. Malta Archaeological Review 4: 10-16.
2001 Les îles phéniciennes du milieu de la mer, co-authored with Anthony J. Frendo. Dossiers d'Archéologie 267: 46-55.
2001 The Hal Saflieni Hypogeum in Malta re-opens. Paleo-express (communicazioni di preistoria italiana) 7 (febbraio): 13-14.
2001 The Lure of the Antique: Nationalism, Politics and Archaeology in British Malta (1880-1964), co-authored with Oliver Gilkes (University of East Anglia). Papers of the British School at Rome 69: 353-384.
2000 An Orientalizing mirage for Iron Age Sardinia. Papers of the British School at Rome 68: 390-391.
2000 Il-Wirt Arkejologiku ta' Hal-Kirkop, by Anthony Bonanno and illustrations by Nicholas C. Vella. In Hal-Kirkop u l-inhawi taí madwaru, edited by H. C. R. Vella: 1-23. Msida, Malta
2000 Israelites and Phoenicians (review article). Antiquity 74: 728-729.
1999 "Trunkess legs of stone": debating ritual continuity at Tas-Silg, Malta. In Facets of Maltese Prehistory, edited by Anton Mifsud & Charles Savona-Ventura, pp. 225-239. Prehistoric Society of Malta, Malta.
1999 Review of M. Gras, Il Mediterraneo in Età arcaica. Paestum (1996). International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 28: 301-302.
1997 Après les géants ... Ulysse 56 (1997): 19-21. This article will be published shortly in a collection of essays entitled Campus 4 (published by CLE International, Paris) meant for foreign students of the French language worldwide.
1997 Review of M. Aubet, The Phoenicians and the West. Cambridge (1996). International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 26: 179-181.
1997 Review of P. Vidal Gonzáles, La Isla de Malta en Epoca Fenicia
y Punica. Oxford (1996). Journal of Mediterranean Studies 7: 145-148.
1996 Elusive Phoenicians. Antiquity 70: 245-50.