Celebrations in prehistoric Malta

This paper investigates the tempo of celebration in prehistoric Malta through the deployment of new fieldwork data and comparison with ethnographic study of modern celebrations on the same island. The article commemorates the late Jeremy Boissevain and his stimulation of new ways of thinking about prehistory, assesses and updates the 1990 article in World Archaeology by two of the current authors, and deploys new computerized modelling of celestial alignments, in the context of new chronologies and sequential data of celebratory locales. The paper shows how contrasts between the tempo of celebration in modern times and prehistory emerge by comparing ethnographic and archaeological evidence

Ancient history · Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Ethnography · Geography · Prehistoric archaeology · Prehistory · Sociology · Anthropology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

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