Metaphor and Maltese Art: Explorations in the Temple Period

Temple Period Malta in the 3rd millennium BC saw the production of a range of figurative and decorative art and architecture that implies a richly populated spiritual and cognitive world associated with ritual practice in life and death. The paper explores the potential to categorize the figurative art into distinct groups, and how these various images might represent aspects of the cosmology and social concerns of a prehistoric island society.

Ritual, Play and Animals in early human societies: Manipulating the Bones in temple period Malta: Eating and Augury in the Maltese Temples.

Examination of antiquarian records and feasting ritual in prehistoric Malta

A house for the temple builders. Recent investigations on Gozo, Malta.

Malone, C.A.T., S.K.F. Stoddart, and D. Trump, Antiquity, 1988. 62: p. 297-301.

Daily life behind the ritual of the Temple Builders,

Stoddart, S.K.F., C.A.T. Malone, and D. Trump, in Past ( 1988, Prehistoric Society p. 4-5.

Maltese Temple Period figurines.

Malone, C and S. Stoddart (Ed). T.Insoll Chapter on Maltese figurines.