Temple landscapes Fragility, change and resilience of Holocene environments in the Maltese Islands.
- Submitting institution
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University of Cambridge
- Unit of assessment
- 15 - Archaeology
- Output identifier
- 10108
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.17863/CAM.59611
- Publisher
- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
- ISBN
- 978-1-902937-99-1
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph marshalled a suite of major palaeoenvironmental, chronological, archaeological and modelling contributions by 16 main authors to re-examine the complex archaeological story of landscape development in Malta over the past c. 8000 years. This has never before been attempted on such an extensive and detailed scale. Several new themes were investigated: the impacts of Neolithic farming communities on landscape resilience, tracing the trajectories of major climatic changes, identifying the history and periodicity of soil development and soil erosion, and examining the major effects of the onset of aridification from the Bronze Age onwards.
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- Additional information
- FThis volume publishes the results of large-scale geoarchaeological fieldwork and lab analysis led by French within the context of a major international ERC project (FRAGSUS), on which he was Co-I. French also marshalled the content, writing, editing and lay-out of the whole volume. He contributed to every chapter except the molluscan Chapter 4, and Chapters 9 and 10, and wrote the first drafts of the Preface, Introduction and almost all of the concluding Chapter 11, wrote 95% of Chapter 5, and compiled the Bibliography and all the Appendices except for Apps. 4, 5 and 9. He organised all the chapters� text and figure material, edited them into house style and copy-edited the complete volume.
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