Course Details
Country:
Malta
Institution:
University of Malta
Course Title:
The Prehistory of the Western Mediterranean: Sicily and Sardinia
Course Number:
ARC3034
Course Description:
This study-unit is about the prehistory of one part of Europe, the western Mediterranean, with the main attention devoted to two major islands: Sicily and Sardinia. Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean, provides one of the most variegated archaeological records from prehistory, a veritable melting-pot of cultures (indigenous, Greek and Phoenician) with numerable contacts with satellite islands (namely, the Egadi, the Aeolian, the Pelagic, and the Maltese) and the mainland. With its size and position, in the centre of the western half of the Mediterranean Sea, Sardinia - the second largest island after Sicily - became an attraction for a number of foreign powers since antiquity: its obsidian was the chief attraction in the Neolithic, while its fertile plains became the granaries of Carthage and imperial Rome. And yet, Bronze Age Sardinia saw the rise of an astonishing indigenous culture characterised by towers (nuraghi), well-temples (templi a pozzo) and
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ANTH 396
Course URL:
https://www.um.edu.mt/courses/studyunit/ARC3034
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