AbstractExtensive canyons, excavated into the margins of the Levant Basin during the Oligocene–Miocene, are interesting case-studies for canyon fills in carbonate settings. The carbonate Pattish Formation, developed along the margins of the pre-evaporitic Messinian Beer...

Archaeologists have long emphasized the importance of large-scale excavations and multi-year or even decades-long projects at a single site or site complex. Here, we highlight archaeological field strategies, termed coring, profiling, and trenching (CPT), that rely on r...

Hundreds of ‘cart ruts’ – pairs of incised parallel grooves in the bedrock – are found across the Maltese Archipelago in the central Mediterranean. The age, functional association, formation processes, and taphonomic alteration of these ruts, which occur here with a glo...

An exclusive connection between Homo sapiens and Nubian Levallois technology has been posited, but remains to be demonstrated1 . Our re-evaluation of the fossil and lithic material from Shukbah Cave confounds such assumptions due to the identification of a Neanderthal m...

Governance encompasses the structures and processes that ensure governing and provide mechanisms by which the governed have to comply to ensure stability, inclusiveness, responsiveness, transparency and accountability. It differs from government; the focus is less on th...

Islands are sites of innovative conceptualizations, whether of nature or human enterprise, whether virtual or real. The study of islands on their own terms today enjoys a growing and wide-ranging recognition. This paper celebrates the launch of Island Studies Journal in...

Abstract Prior to the Second World War, Malta appeared vulnerable to fascist influence due to the connections between the Italian Fascist regime and Malta’s irredentist political movement, then led by Nerik Mizzi. In part this Fascist influence was present in cultural p...

Purpose: The study's subject was a poorly recognized and relatively new initiative in the Polish countryside, the educational farms. The purpose of the work is to present the essence of educational farms and the idea of their creation and familiarize the functioning of ...

The behaviour of traditional roofs affects issues relating to sustainability, zero-carbon targets, and Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. This paper discusses an innovative approach towards understanding the behaviour of porous, and other types, of roofs in Malta in relati...