Temple Landscapes: Fragility, Change and Resilience of Holocene Environments in the Maltese Islands French Charles
Temple Landscapes: Fragility, Change and Resilience of Holocene Environments in the Maltese Islands French Charles The ERC-funded FRAGSUS Project (Fragility and sustainability in small island…
Specifikacia Temple Landscapes: Fragility, Change and Resilience of Holocene Environments in the Maltese Islands French Charles
Temple Landscapes: Fragility, Change and Resilience of Holocene Environments in the Maltese Islands French Charles
The ERC-funded FRAGSUS Project (Fragility and sustainability in small island environments: adaptation, cultural change and collapse in prehistory, 2013-18), led by Caroline Malone (Queens University Belfast) has explored issues of environmental fragility and Neolithic social resilience and sustainability during the Holocene period in the Maltese Islands.This, the first volume of three, presents the palaeo-environmental story of early Maltese landscapes. Buried deposits extracted through coring and geoarchaeological study yielded rich and chronologically controlled data that allow an important new understanding of environmental change in the islands. The project employed a program of high-resolution chronological and stratigraphic investigations of the valley systems on Malta and Gozo.
The study combined AMS radiocarbon and OSL chronologies with detailed palynological,