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Document Details : Title: Rural Malta Subtitle: First Results of the Joint Belgo-Maltese Survey Project Author(s): DOCTER, Roald F. , VELLA, Nicholas C. , CUTAJAR, Nathaniel , BONANNO, Anthony , PACE, Anthony Journal: BABESCH Volume: 87 Date: 2012 Pages: 107-149 DOI: 10.2143/BAB.87.0.2160694 Abstract : 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. |
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