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

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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.

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Docter, Roald, et al. “Rural Sites in Northwest Malta: Results of the Belgo-Maltese Survey Project.” Non-Destructive Approaches to Complex Archaeological Sites in Europe : A Round-Up, edited by Frank Vermeulen and Cristina Corsi, 2013, pp. 40–40.
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Docter, R., Verdonck, L., Dierkens, G., van de Put, W., Vella, N., Bonanno, A., … Telmini, B. (2013). Rural sites in Northwest Malta: results of the Belgo-Maltese survey project. In F. Vermeulen & C. Corsi (Eds.), Non-destructive approaches to complex archaeological sites in Europe : a round-up (pp. 40–40).
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Docter, Roald, Lieven Verdonck, Guy Dierkens, Winfred van de Put, NC Vella, A Bonanno, M Anastasi, et al. 2013. “Rural Sites in Northwest Malta: Results of the Belgo-Maltese Survey Project.” In Non-Destructive Approaches to Complex Archaeological Sites in Europe : A Round-Up, edited by Frank Vermeulen and Cristina Corsi, 40–40.
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Docter, Roald, Lieven Verdonck, Guy Dierkens, Winfred van de Put, NC Vella, A Bonanno, M Anastasi, N Cutajar, A Pace, M Spiteri, R Zerafa, Morgan De Dapper, Alain De Wulf, Rudi Goossens, Timothy Nuttens, Cornelis Stal, B Bechtold, and BM Telmini. 2013. “Rural Sites in Northwest Malta: Results of the Belgo-Maltese Survey Project.” In Non-Destructive Approaches to Complex Archaeological Sites in Europe : A Round-Up, ed by. Frank Vermeulen and Cristina Corsi, 40–40.
Vancouver
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Docter R, Verdonck L, Dierkens G, van de Put W, Vella N, Bonanno A, et al. Rural sites in Northwest Malta: results of the Belgo-Maltese survey project. In: Vermeulen F, Corsi C, editors. Non-destructive approaches to complex archaeological sites in Europe : a round-up. 2013. p. 40–40.
IEEE
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R. Docter et al., “Rural sites in Northwest Malta: results of the Belgo-Maltese survey project,” in Non-destructive approaches to complex archaeological sites in Europe : a round-up, Ghent, Belgium, 2013, pp. 40–40.
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  abstract     = {{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.}},
  author       = {{Docter, Roald and Verdonck, Lieven and Dierkens, Guy and van de Put, Winfred and Vella, NC and Bonanno, A and Anastasi, M and Cutajar, N and Pace, A and Spiteri, M and Zerafa, R and De Dapper, Morgan and De Wulf, Alain and Goossens, Rudi and Nuttens, Timothy and Stal, Cornelis and Bechtold, B and Telmini, BM}},
  booktitle    = {{Non-destructive approaches to complex archaeological sites in Europe : a round-up}},
  editor       = {{Vermeulen, Frank and Corsi, Cristina}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  location     = {{Ghent, Belgium}},
  pages        = {{40--40}},
  title        = {{Rural sites in Northwest Malta: results of the Belgo-Maltese survey project}},
  year         = {{2013}},
}