From the Bronze Age, the Maltese archipelago followed a particular and unique urban development throughout its history. Here is the attempt to underline this particularity, througha deepening into the settlement topography and land-use strategies of some of the most important Late Bronze and Iron Age’s sites of Malta and Gozo, also by tracing the changes occurred after the arriving of Levantine newcomers in the 8th century BC. This paperwill focus on the specific urban strategies adopted by some of the most representative sitesof the Bronze and Iron Age.It follows a brief outlineaboutthelocation of thenecropolis,intended asan essential marker to discover the presence of the Phoeniciansettlements.Altogether, these data shed a lighton the comprehension of the Malteseancienturban landscape, which appears as an interdependent system that involved, in the Late Bronze Age, a strong connection between many inland villages, their fertile lands and few landing bays. This system became more complex during the Iron Age, with the appearanceof big urban centers exploitingthe rural landscapeandconnected toimportant trading harbors.
Urban development in Bronze Age and Iron Age Malta / Bonanno, Giuliana. - In: VICINO ORIENTE. - ISSN 2532-5159. - XXVIII:(2024), pp. 93-106.
Urban development in Bronze Age and Iron Age Malta
Giuliana Bonanno
2024
Abstract
From the Bronze Age, the Maltese archipelago followed a particular and unique urban development throughout its history. Here is the attempt to underline this particularity, througha deepening into the settlement topography and land-use strategies of some of the most important Late Bronze and Iron Age’s sites of Malta and Gozo, also by tracing the changes occurred after the arriving of Levantine newcomers in the 8th century BC. This paperwill focus on the specific urban strategies adopted by some of the most representative sitesof the Bronze and Iron Age.It follows a brief outlineaboutthelocation of thenecropolis,intended asan essential marker to discover the presence of the Phoeniciansettlements.Altogether, these data shed a lighton the comprehension of the Malteseancienturban landscape, which appears as an interdependent system that involved, in the Late Bronze Age, a strong connection between many inland villages, their fertile lands and few landing bays. This system became more complex during the Iron Age, with the appearanceof big urban centers exploitingthe rural landscapeandconnected toimportant trading harbors.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.