Borg in-Nadur, on the south-east coast of the island of Malta, is a
major multi-period site, with archaeological remains that span
several thousand years. In the course of the Late Neolithic, the
steep-sided ridge was occupied by a large megalithic temple complex
that was re-occupied in the succeeding Bronze Age. In the course of
the second millennium BC, the ridge was heavily fortified by a
massive wall to protect a settlement of huts. Excavations were
carried out here in 1881 and again in 1959. This volume brings
together a number of contributions that report on those
excavations, providing an exhaustive account of the stratigraphy,
the pottery, the lithic assemblages, the bones, and the molluscs.
Additional studies look at other sites in Malta and in neighbouring
Sicily in an effort to throw light on the late prehistory of the
south-central Mediterranean at a period when connections with
regions near and far were increasing. The volume forms a companion
to another monograph which concentrated on the temple remains at
Borg in-Nadur (D. Tanasi and N. C. Vella (eds), Site, artefacts and
landscape: prehistoric Borg in-Nadur, Malta. Praehistorica
Mediterranea 3. Monza: Polimetrica, 2011). About the Editors:
Davide Tanasi (Ph.D.) is Professor of Archaeology at Arcadia
University, The College of Global Studies - Arcadia Sicily Center.
His research interests include Mediterranean prehistory, island
archaeology, archaeometry of ancient ceramics, computer graphics in
archaeology, and digital communication of cultural heritage. He has
authored a hundred scientific papers in these fields and produced
3D documentaries about Sicilian archaeology and cultural heritage.
His publications include La Sicilia e l'arcipelago maltese nell'eta
del Bronzo Medio (Palermo, 2008) and Site, Artefacts and Landscape:
Prehistoric Borg in-Nadur, Malta with Nicholas C. Vella (Monza,
2011). He is editor of the international scientific journal Open
Archaeology (De Gruyter) and since 2012, he has been directing the
Field School in Archaeology of Arcadia University in Sicily.
Nicholas C. Vella is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of
Classics and Archaeology at the University of Malta, and works on
Mediterranean history and archaeology. He has co-edited another
volume of essays on Malta's late prehistory called Site, Artefacts
and Landscape: Prehistoric Borg in- Nadur, Malta with Davide Tanasi
(Monza, 2011) and contributed, with him, to the Cambridge
Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean edited by P.
van Dommelen and B. Knapp (Cambridge, 2014). He edits the Malta
Archaeological Review, and co-directs excavations at the Zejtun
Roman Villa (Malta). He is also co-investigator of the FRAGSUS
project, funded by the European Research Council, that is examining
the environmental and cultural background of prehistoric Malta.
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