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Bronze Age

 

The temple culture came to a mysterious end by around 2500 BC. No one knows whether these people died out, were subjugated by invaders or simply left the Islands. From this time until about 700BC the Bronze Age took place. From this period significant discoveries, such as cart ruts, were made.

Evidence for the cultural migration, coming from the Aegean Sea through the Puglia region in Italy and Western Sicily, is provided by the affinity of early Maltese Bronze Age pottery with Protohelladic (Aegean) and Capo Graziano (Aeolian) styles. The first Maltese Bronze Age culture is mostly known for its cart ruts and funerary remains with four types of burial monuments; namely ritualized megalithic temples, menhir, Cairns and dolmens.

The last two centuries of Maltese Bronze Age bring with them the Baħrija folk, who probably occupied areas in western Malta.

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