About the Author:
Simon Stoddart is Reader in Prehistory at the University of Cambridge. His many research interests include Iron Age Europe, island societies encompassing his work on Malta with the Gozo Project, and landscape archaeology. His publications include Landscape, Ethnicity and Identity (2012, ed with G. Cifani and S. Neil), and Historical Dictionary of the Etruscans (2009). He was editor of Antiquity from 2001-2002.
Review:
This is an impressive report..should become a major work of reference for Maltese and Mediterranean prehistory.' (Madeleine Hummler Antiquity, Vol. 84, 2010)
The achievements of the Gozo project and of this resulting monograph are undeniably significant. The re-discovery, modern scientific excavation, recording and analysis, and, now, full publication of the architecture and rich mortuary deposits of the Xag?ra Circle site are outstanding milestones in the history of the archaeology of the Maltese Islands. They add greatly to our knowledge of prehistoric Maltese mortuary practices, so poorly served by the (original) ‘excavation’ and publication of the Hal Saflieni hypogeum and other Maltese rockcut tombs. Indeed, the Xag?ra Circle, with its huge and carefully studied assemblage of human remains (some 220,000 bones, representing
over 800 individuals), now provides an important, world-class, example for the archaeology of death.' (Robin Skeates European Journal of Archaeology, 14.1-2, 2011)
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