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Title: Megalithic mandalas of the Middle Sea - the neolithic builders of Malta and their builders
Authors: England, Richard
Keywords: Neolithic period -- Malta
Architecture, Prehistoric -- Malta
Malta -- Antiquities
Prehistoric peoples -- Malta
Megalithic temples -- Malta
Megalithic temples -- Malta -- Gozo
Mother goddesses -- Malta
Ħaġar Qim Temples (Qrendi, Malta)
Mnajdra Temples (Qrendi, Malta)
Ġgantija Temples (Xagħra, Malta)
Xagħra Stone Circle (Xagħra, Malta)
Hypogeum (Xagħra, Malta)
Brochtorff Circle (Xagħra, Malta)
Issue Date: 1999
Publisher: Prehistoric Society of Malta
Citation: England, R. (1999). Megalithic mandalas of the Middle Sea - the neolithic builders of Malta and their builders. In A. Mifsud, & C. Savona Ventura (Eds.), Facets of Maltese Prehistory (pp. 137-148). Malta: Prehistoric Society of Malta.
Abstract: When Picasso visited the caves of Lascaux and viewed the remarkable works of the Paleolithic artists of Western Europe, he is said to have remarked "we have invented nothing!" Any latter day modern architect visiting the megalithic temple sites of the Maltese Islands would have to arrive at a similar conclusion. For too many years, modern man has refused to credit our ancient ancestors with intellectual qualities and artistic properties over and above the accepted magical and sacred ones, which as evidence demonstrates, these people amply possessed. Too much time has perhaps been spent by archaeologists sampling and studying miniature particles and remnants and not applying enough attention to the sophisticated architectural spatial concepts of the buildings themselves and also to their specific site locations together with the complex engineering techniques utilized in these unique ritual centres of the Neolithic period.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/46937
ISBN: 9993215007
Appears in Collections:Facets of Maltese Prehistory



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