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Title: | Mortuary ritual of 4th Millennium BC Malta : the Zebbug period chambered tomb from the Brochtorff Circle at Xaghra (Gozo) |
Authors: | Barber, Geraldine Brown, Carol Dixon, John Duhig, Corinne Leighton, Robert Schembri, Patrick J. |
Keywords: | Xaghra Cliffs (Xaghra, Malta) -- Antiquities Tombs -- Malta -- Xaghra Cliffs Burial -- Malta -- Xaghra Cliffs -- History Excavations (Archaeology) -- Malta -- Xaghra Cliffs |
Issue Date: | 1995 |
Citation: | Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. 1995, Vol 61, p. 303-345 |
Abstract: | 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. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/7248 |
Appears in Collections: | Melitensia Works - ERCASHArc |
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