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THE severely archaeological part of this work consists of reports of excavations in Malta and Gozo made in 1908–11, and of a survey of the mega-lithic monuments of Sardinia. The investigation was confined to Neolithic monuments. Buildings usually ascribed to the Phoenicians are now assigned to the end of the Neolithic age, or to the very beginning of the “Eneothic” period or the age of metals (p. 5). They were “in part sanctuaries, in part dwellings.” No Neolithic burials were discovered in them, but typical Neolithic burials were found elsewhere under other conditions (pp. 7, 8, 12). Such evidence fully warrants the happy description “megalithic sanctuaries” (p. 35). “Connection of origin with the pottery of the Ægean there is apparently none; at any rate, it is so remote that we cannot trace it, and of direct Egean influence,” says Mr. Peet, “I can see no certain evidence whatsoever.” The builders were evidently allied to the people who made “the rock-hewn graves of Sardinia, Spain, and perhaps Sicily” (p. 17).
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GRIFFITH, J. Papers of the British School at Rome . Nature 92, 527 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/092527a0
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