Radiocarbon dated trends and central Mediterranean prehistory

EW Parkinson, TR McLaughlin, C Esposito… - Journal of world …, 2021 - Springer
This paper reviews the evidence for long term trends in anthropogenic activity and
population dynamics across the Holocene in the central Mediterranean and the chronology …

Dating agricultural terraces in the Mediterranean using luminescence: recent progress and challenges

A Srivastava, T Kinnaird, C Sevara, JA Holcomb… - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
Agricultural terraces provide farmers in hilly landscapes with effective ways to increase the
area available for crops. They mitigate the risks of soil erosion and promote crop productivity …

[BOOK][B] Temple landscapes

C French, CO Hunt, R Grima, R McLaughlin, S Stoddart… - 2020 - pure.qub.ac.uk
0.1. Introduction 1 0.2. Background to FRAGSUS as an archaeological project 3 0.3.
Environmental research in Malta and the Mediterranean 5 0.4. The development of the …

Analysis of periosteal lesions from commingled human remains at the Xagħra Circle hypogeum reveals the first case of probable scurvy from Neolithic Malta

JE Thompson, RK Power… - International Journal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Palaeopathological analysis is key for characterising population health at the
individual level and across large assemblages but is rarely exploited to unite the remains of …

Fire as a motor of rapid environmental degradation during the earliest peopling of Malta 7500 years ago

N Marriner, D Kaniewski, T Gambin, B Gambin… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The Holocene colonisation of islands by humans has invariably led to deep-seated changes
in landscape dynamics and ecology. In particular, burning was a management tool …

Island risks and the resilience of a prehistoric civilization

TR McLaughlin, S Stoddart, C Malone - World Archaeology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Resilience in the face of uncertainty is a universal issue, but of particular concern for small
islands where climate change and accelerated sea-level change are current worries. This …

Hypogea and the clubhouse: Neolithic Malta's houses of the living and houses of the dead

R Barratt, C Malone, R McLaughlin, E Parkinson - Houses of the dead, 2020 - torrossa.com
Houses are functional spaces that provide context to the life of the individuals that inhabited
them and metaphorical space that forge and preserve their identity. They are also the …

Island questions: the chronology of the Brochtorff Circle at Xagħra, Gozo, and its significance for the Neolithic sequence on Malta

C Malone, N Cutajar, TR McLaughlin… - Archaeological and …, 2019 - Springer
Bayesian chronological modelling of radiocarbon dates from the Brochtorff Circle at Xagħra,
Gozo, Malta (achieved through the ToTL and FRAGSUS projects), provides a more precise …

Placing and remembering the dead in late Neolithic Malta: bioarchaeological and spatial analysis of the Xagħra Circle Hypogeum, Gozo

JE Thompson, EW Parkinson, TR McLaughlin… - World …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This paper integrates the results of recent bioarchaeological and spatial analyses at one of
the largest collective burial sites in Europe, the Xagħra Circle Hypogeum on Gozo. This suite …

[HTML][HTML] From fragility to sustainability: Geoarchaeological investigations within the Maltese Archipelago

J Bennett, C French, R McLaughlin, S Stoddart… - Quaternary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Maltese Archipelago is a microcosm of long-term Anthropocene human
manipulation of the environment spanning the last 8000 years. Despite their apparent …