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Making sense of the Maltese Temple Period: An Archaeology of Sensory Experience and Perception

Skeates, R.

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Abstract

This paper attempts to formulate a culturally specific sensory inventory of the Maltese islandscape during the distinctive Temple Period (c. 3400-2500BC), with particular reference to the sensory stimuli and constraints of three dynamic types of place on the islands (houses, caves, and temples), in order to explore the islanders' full-bodied experiences and perceptions of their lived-in world, and to add to our understanding of their sensational Temple Culture, which is characterized here in terms of embodied social production, ritualization, and ordering.

Citation

Skeates, R. (2008). Making sense of the Maltese Temple Period: An Archaeology of Sensory Experience and Perception. Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, 1(2), 207-238. https://doi.org/10.2752/175169708x309815

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jul 1, 2008
Deposit Date Aug 7, 2009
Journal Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture
Print ISSN 1751-696X
Electronic ISSN 1751-6978
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 1
Issue 2
Pages 207-238
DOI https://doi.org/10.2752/175169708x309815
Keywords Sensual culture, Body, Experience, Perception, Malta.