Department of Classics & Archaeology

List of publications (by author)

List of publications (by author)

Publications arranged by author

Anastasi, M. 2011. "The post-prehistoric pottery," in D. Tanasi and N.C. Vella, eds., Sites, Artefacts, Landscapes: Prehistoric Borġ in-NadurMonza: Polimetrica, 159-172.

Anastasi, M. 2012. "The Pottery from the 1972 excavations at the Żejtun villa." in R. Abela, ed., The Żejtun Roman Villa: Research, Conservation, Management. Malta: Wirt iz-Żejtun, 26-41.

Anastasi, M. 2013. "Phoenician and Punic Pottery (review article),"Malta Archaeological Review9 (2008-2009): 77-78.

Anastasi, M. 2016. "Appendix 3: African ceramics in Roman Malta: An overview," in D. Malfitana and M. Bonifay, eds., La ceramica africana nella Sicilia romana/La céramique africaine dans la Sicile romaine. Catania: Centre Camille Jullian, 581-584.

Anastasi, M. 2018. "Tracing identity through industry: Maltese industries in the Late Punic and Roman period," in A. Kouremenos, ed., Insularity in the Roman Mediterranean. Oxford: Oxbow, 125-143.

Anastasi, M. 2019. Pottery from Roman Malta. Oxford: Archaeopress.

Barone, G., Gulli, D., Mazzoleni, P., Raneri, S. and Tanasi, D. 2015. "Archaeometric identification of Maltese imports in prehistoric Sicily: Zebbug pottery from Licata-Caduta (Agrigento)," Malta Archaeological Review 2010-2011 (10): 23-30.

Barone, G., Mazzoleni, P., Raneri, S., Tanasi, D. and Giuffrida, A. 2015. "Archaeometric characterization of Middle Bronze Age pottery from the settlement at Borġ in-Nadur," in D. Tanasi and N. C. Vella, eds., The late prehistory of Malta: essays on Borġ in-Nadur and other sites. Archaeopress: Oxford, 99-112.

Bechtold, B. 2018. "La distribuzione di anfore da trasporto maltesi fuori dall'arcipelago: nuovi dati," in N.C. Vella, A.J. Frendo and H.C.R. Vella, eds., The Lure of the Antique: Essays on Malta and Mediterranean Archaeology in Honour of Anthony Bonanno. Leuven: Peeters, 257-274.

Blagg, T.F.C., Bonanno, A. and Luttrell, A. T. 1990. Excavations at Hal Millieri, MaltaA report on the 1977 campaign conducted on behalf of the National Museum of Malta and the University of Malta. Malta: University of Malta.

Bonanno, A. 2005. Malta: Phoenician, Punic and Roman. Malta: Midsea.

Bruno, B. and Cutajar, N. 2002. "Archeologia Bizantina a Malta: primi risultati e prospettive di indagine," in M. G. Amadasi, M. Liverani and P. Matthiae, eds., Da Pyrgi a Mozia: Studi Sull'Archeologia del Mediterraneo in Memoria di Antonia Ciasca. Rome: Erma di Bretschnider, 109-138.

Bruno, B. and Cutajar, N. 2013. "Imported Amphorae as Indicators of Economic Activity in Early Medieval Malta," in D. Michaelides, P. Pergola and E. Zanini, eds., The insular system of the early Byzantine Mediterranean: Archaeology and history. Oxford: BAR, 15-29.

Bruno, B. and Cutajar, N. 2018. "Malta between the ninth and tenth century - two early Medieval contexts," Archeologia Medievale XLV: 111-122.

Cutajar, N. 2004. "The Archaeology of Malta's Middle Ages: documenting cultural change between the Tenth and the Thirteenth Century," in K. Gambin, ed., Malta: Roots Of A Nation. Malta: Heritage Malta, 55-64.

Cutajar, N., Spiteri, M. 2019. "Ottoman Coffee Cups from 18th-century Birgu and Valletta," Tesserae 6: 38-45.

Debono Spiteri, C. and Craig, O. 2015. "Biomolecular and isotopic characterisation of lipid residues absorbed in Impressed Wares from the Early Neolithic village of Skorba," Malta Archaeological Review 10: 14-22.

Debono Spiteri, C., Gillis, R. E., Roffet-Salque, M., Castells Navarro, J., Manen, C., Muntoni, I. M., Segui, S., Urem-Kotsou, D., Whelton, H. L., Craig, O. E., Vigne, J. D. and Evershed, R. P. 2016. "Regional asynchronicity in dairy production and processing in early farming communities of the northern Mediterranean," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (48): 13594-13599.

Docter, R.F., Vella, N.C., Cutajar, N., Bonanno, A. and Pace, A. 2012. "Rural Malta: First results of the joint Belgo-Maltese survey project," BABESCH 87: 117-157.

Mallia, J. and Zammit, M.E. 2008. "Re-visiting the stores: Cataloguing the Prehistoric Collection from Ta' Ħaġrat," in J. Mallia and M. E. Zammit, eds., Ta' Ħaġrat and Skorba: Ancient Monuments in a Modern World. Malta: Heritage Malta.

Malone, C., Stoddart, S., Bonanno, A., Gouder, T. and Trump, D. 1995. "Mortuary ritual of 4th millennium BC Malta: the Zebbug period chambered tomb from Brochtorff Circle at Xaghra (Gozo), "Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 61: 303-345.Malone, C., Stoddart, S., Trump, D, Bonanno, A, Gouder, T., and Pace, A. 2009. eds. Mortuary Customs in prehistoric Malta: Excavations at the Brochtorff-Xaghra Circle Gozo 1987-1994. Cambridge: McDonald Archaeological Reports.

Molinari, A. and Cutajar, N. 1999. "Of Greeks and Arabs and Feudal Knights: preliminary archaeological exposure of Malta’s perplexing Middle Ages," Malta Archaeological Review (3): 9-13.

Mommsen, H., Bonanno, A., Chectcuti Bonavita, K., Kakoulli, I., Musumeci, M., Sagona, C., Schwedt, A., Vella, N. C., Zacharias, N., Maggetti, M. and Messiga, B. 2006. "Characterization of Maltese pottery of the Late Neolithic, Bronze Age and Punic Period by neutron activation analysis," in M. Maggetti and B. Messiga, eds., Geomaterials in Cultural Heritage 157. London: The Geological Society, 81-89.

Palmer, R. 2014. "Maltese Ceramics and Imperial Foodways: An Exploration of Nineteenth-century Red Wares,"European Journal of Archaeology 17 (4): 678-701.

Palmer, R. 2020. "Post-Medieval Maltese Earthenware and its Makers: Unearthing a Forgotten Industry", International Journal of Historical Archaeology 24: 422–455. [doi.org/10.1007/s10761-019-00512-z]. 

Palmer, R., Raneri, S., Mazzoleni, P., Vella, N. C., Barone, G., De Clercq, W. 2018. "Neighbourly ties: Characterizing local and Sicilian pottery in post-medieval Malta," Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 19: 575-587.

Quercia, A. 2000. "Pasti rituali nella Malta punica: il vasellame da fuoco nei contesti sacri e funerari," Malta Archaeological Review 4: 28-33.

Quercia, A. 2002. "La ceramica da fuoco del santuario di Tas-Silġ (Malta): tipi attestati e proposte interpretative," in M. G. Amadasi Guzzo, M. Liverani and P. Matthiae, eds., Da Pyrgi a Mozia: studi sull'archeologia del Mediterraneo in memoria di Antonia Ciasca. Rome: Universitá degli studi di Roma "La sapienza", 403-424.Quercia, A. 2004. "Rapporti e contatti tra isole del Mediterraneo Centrale: la Pantellerian Ware a Malta," L'Africa Romana XVI: 1597-1614.

Quercia, A. 2007. "La ceramica punico-maltese del santuario di Tas-Silġ: analisi tipologica e funzionale," Scienze dell’Antichità 12 (2004-2005): 335-354.

Quercia, A. 2011. "Typological and morphological remarks upon some vessels in the repertoire of pottery in Punic Malta," in C. Sagona, ed., Ceramics of the Phoenician-Punic World: Collected Essays. Leuven: Peeters, 443-450.

Raneri, S., Barone, G., Mazzoleni, P., Tanasi, D. and Costa, E. 2015. "Mobility of men versus mobility of goods: archaeometric characterization of Middle Bronze Age pottery in Malta and Sicily (15th-13th century BC)," Periodico di Mineralogia 84 (1): 23-44. 

Rossignani, M. P., Cazzella, A., Recchia, G., Semeraro, G., Locatelli, D., Amadasi, M. G., Perassi, C., Quercia, A., Bergamaschi, C. and Rossi, A. 2004. "Missione a Malta," Archaeo 20 (7): 40-57.

Sagona, C. 1996. "Punic Pottery from Malta held in Two Australian Collections," Mediterranean Archaeology 9: 29-52.

Sagona, C. 1999. "Silo or vat? Observations on the ancient textile in Malta and early Phoenician interests in the island," Oxford Journal of Archaeology 18 (1): 23-60.

Sagona, C. 2000. The Pottery, in A. Bonanno, A. J. Frendo with N. C. Vella, eds. “Excavations at Tas-Silġ, Malta: a preliminary report on the 1996-1998 campaigns conducted by the Department of Classics and Archaeology of the University of Malta," Mediterranean Archaeology 13: 57-114, 84-97.

Sagona, C. 2002. The Archaeology of Punic Malta. Leuven: Peeters.

Sagona, C. 2005. "A new cultural sequence for Malta," in V. Tusa, ed., Atti del V Congresso Internazionale di Studi Fenici e Punici (2-8 October 2008, Marsala). Rome: Consiglio nazionale delle Richerche, 907-918. 

Sagona, C. 2008. "Malta: Between a rock and a hard place," in C. Sagona, ed., Beyond the Homeland: Markers in Phoenician Chronology. Leuven: Peeters, 487-536.

Sagona, C. 2008. ed. Beyond the Homeland: Markers in Phoenician Chronology. Leuven: Peeters.

Sagona, C. 2011 ed. Ceramics of the Phoenician-Punic World: Collected Essays. Leuven: Peeters.

Sagona, C. 2011. "Observations on the Late Bronze Age and Phoenician-Punic pottery in Malta," in C. Sagona, ed., Ceramics of the Phoenician-Punic World: Collected Essays. Leuven: Peeters, 397-432.

Sagona, C. 2015. The archaeology of Malta: from the Neolithic through the Roman period. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Sagona, C. forthcoming. "The beat of a different drum - sound devices in Bronze Age Malta," in N. C. Vella, A. J. Frendo and H. C. R. Vella, eds., Festschrift in Honour of Anthony Bonanno. Leuven: Peeters.

Sagona, C. and Briffa, J. M. 2017. Artefacts from Malta held in the British Museum. Oxford: Archaeopress.

Sagona, C., Vella Gregory, I. and Bugeja, A. 2006. Punic Antiquities of the Malta and other Ancient Artefacts held in the Ecclesiastic and Private Collections, 2. Leuven: Peeters. 

Schmidt, K. and Bechtold, B. “Fabrics of Malta (version 06/12/2013)”. In, FACEM.

Spiteri, C., Muntoni, I. M. and Craig, O. 2017. "Dietary practices at the onset of the Neolithic in the Western Mediterranean revealed using a combined biomarker and isotopic approach," in D. C. Salazar-García and O. García-Puchol, eds., Times of Neolithic transition along the Western Mediterranean. New York: Springer International. 

Tanasi, D. 2008. La Sicilia e l'arcipelago maltese nell'eta del Bronzo Medio. Palermo: Officina Studi Medievali.

Tanasi, D. 2009. "A Mediterranean Connection. Nouvi dati sulle relazioni tra Malta e Creta agli inizi dell' età del Ferro," Creta Antica 10 (2): 519-538.

Tanasi, D. 2010. "Bridging the gap. New data on the relationship between Sicily, the Maltese Archipelago and the Aegean in the Middle Bronze Age," Mare Internum 2: 111-119.

Tanasi, D. 2011. "Living and dying in a foreign country. Maltese immigrants in Middle Bronze Age Sicily," in D. Tanasi and N. C. Vella, eds., Site, artefacts and landscape: prehistoric Borġ in-Nadur, Malta. Monza: Polimentrica, 283-337.

Tanasi, D. 2013. "Prehistoric Painted Pottery in Malta: One Century Later," Malta Archaeological Review 2008-2009 (9): 5-13.

Tanasi, D. 2014. "Lighting up the dark. The role of Għar Mirdum in Maltese prehistory," in D. Gulli, ed., From Cave to Dolmen. Ritual and symbolic aspects in the prehistory between Sciacca, Sicily and the central Mediterranean. Oxford: Archaeopress, 287-308.

Tanasi, D. 2014. "Uniti e divisi dal mare. Mobilità di uomini tra la Sicilia e l'archipelago maltese nel II millenio a. C." in M. Congiu, C. Miccichè and S. Modeo, eds., Viaggio in Sicilia. Racconti, segni e città ritrovate. Atti del X Convegno di Studi sulla Sicilia Antica, Caltanissetta 10-11 maggio 2013. Caltanissetta: Sciascia, 99-116.

Tanasi, D. 2015. "Borġ in-Nadur pottery abroad: a report from the Sicilian necropoleis of Thapsos and Matrensa," in D. Tanasi and N.C. Vella, eds., The late prehistory of Malta: essays on Borġ in-Nadur and other sites. Archaeopress: Oxford, 173-184.

Tanasi, D. 2015. "The pottery from the excavation campaign of David H. Trump (1959) at the settlement of Borġ in-Nadur," in D. Tanasi and N.C. Vella, eds., The late prehistory of Malta: essays on Borġ in-Nadur and other sites. Archaeopress: Oxford, 35-98.

Tanasi, D. 2016. Review of "The Archaeology of Malta from the Neolithic through the Roman Period" by C. SagonaMelita Historica XVII(1): 179-189.

Tanasi, D., Brunelli, D., Camavò, V., Levi, S.T. 2019. "Archaeometric characterization of prehistoric pottery from Baħrija, Malta," Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 27: 101938.

Tanasi, D. and Celestin, M. 2017. "Learning my objects: 3D Digital Imaging, 3D Printing and new public outreach policies for Maltese archaeology," Tesserae 4: 4-11.

Tanasi, D. and Cardona, D. eds. 2020. Reassessment of the 1909 and 1959 Excavations at Qlejgħa tal-Baħrija and Other Essays. Oxford: Archaeopress. 

Tanasi, D. and Vella, N. C. eds. 2011. Site, artefacts and landscape: prehistoric Borġ in-Nadur, Malta. Monza: Polimentrica.

Tanasi, D. and Vella, N. C. eds. 2015. The Late Prehistory of Malta: Essays on Borġ In-Nadur and Other Sites. Oxford: Archaeopress.

Tanasi, D. and Vella, N. C. 2014. "Islands and mobility: exploring Bronze Age connectivity in the south-central Mediterranean," in A. B. Knapp and P. Van Dommelen, eds., The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 57-73.

Vella, N.C., Tanasi, D. and Anastasi, M. 2011. "Mobility and transitions: the south-central Mediterranean on the eve of prehistory." in D. Tanasi and N. C. Vella, eds., Sites, Artefacts, Landscape: Prehistoric Borġ in-Nadur. Monza: Polimetrica, 251-281.

Vella, N.C., Bonanno, A., Anastasi, M.Bechtold, B., Farrugia, R., Fenech, K., Mizzi, D., Verdonck, L. and Zammit, A. 2018. "A View from the Countryside: the Nature of the Late Punic and Early Roman Activity at the Żejtun Villa Site, Malta," Rivista di Studi Fenici 45: 109-143.

Vella, N.C., Borġ, A., Borġ, D., Cardona, N.J., Chetcuti-Bonavita, K., Corrado, A., DeGaetano, E., Fenech, K., Sagona, C., Samut-Tagliaferro, J. and Vella Gregory, I. 2001. "Report on the excavation of a Punic tomb, Bajda Ridge, Xemxija (Malta)," Malta Archaeological Review 5: 16-22.

Vella Gregory, I. 2017. "The application of pottery attribute analysis: A case-study from the Neolithic complex of Kordin, Malta," Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 14: 543-556.

Vella Gregory, I. 2018. "Pots and communities in Late Neolithic Malta: A study of decoration and motor skills," Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 20: 843-852.

 


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