The culture of prehistoric Malta

The first people in Malta were believed to be from Sicily who arrived before 5000B.C. These people grew there own crops and made there own clothes,these people showed fertility by representing statues of large proportions like in (fig .1)

(FIG.1)

We have proof that one of the first people in Malta were from Sicily cos of the pottery work found in Ghar dalam (Malta) matches some work found in Agrigento (Sicily). these people rose to the culture of megalithic temple builders. The building built from these people are the oldest standing stone scturctors ever built . These magnificent structures are the temples (FIG.2) these were built during a long period of time from 4000BC to  2500BC .

(FIG.2)

Abit is known about the maltese temple builders and there life , however there is evidence that there religouse rituals included animals and sometimes humans. fortunately this ritual ended when the bronze age started. the cukture cremated its dead and introduced smaller megalithic sctructurescalled dolmens to malta.probabaly most of the population arrived from Sicily as the similarity of the maltese dolmens with similar constructions found in Malta .

sources of semethic influences

Phoenicians

The Phoenicians came to Malta at around 700BC. They made use of our sheltered harbours. At around 480BC malta became a Punic colony.

Fatimid conquest 

This period coincided with the golden age of moorish culture and included innovations like crop rotation and irrigation systems both in malta and sicily.The capital city of that time was mina, this was refortified with a wide moat and seperated from the nearest town that is rabat.it was noted that in this period malta was administered  from Palermo Sicily, its a fact that the arabic who colonised malta i  that period were arabic speaking italian .

 Culture of Malta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Culture of Malta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Malta. [Accessed 20 May 2013].