Summary At first glance, the Late Neolithic (3600–2500 BC) of the Maltese Island archipelago in the central Mediterranean is a landscape of immensity dominated by megalithic stone structures. To the modern viewer, the Neolithic is materialized as magnitude across time and space. Archaeologically, it is denoted as the Temple Period, after the numerous megalithic structures found across the islands of Malta, Gozo and Comino. Although these structures elicit notions of dominance, they also obscure multiple scales of materiality within and between their assemblages, particularly the not insignificant corpus of figurines and models. This paper looks at the two extreme ends of scale, immensity and miniaturism, and their role in shaping sensory experience and social relations.

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无限和微型：马耳他群岛新石器时代晚期的规模与感官体验的相互作用

小结乍看之下，地中海中部马耳他岛群岛的新石器时代晚期（公元前3600-2500年）是一块由巨石结构主导的巨大景观。对于现代的观看者来说，新石器时代在时间和空间上是物化的。在考古上，在马耳他，戈佐岛和科米诺岛上发现了许多巨石结构之后，将其称为圣殿时期。尽管这些结构引起了主导地位的概念，但它们也掩盖了其组合之内和之间的多重尺度的重要性，尤其是那些无关紧要的小雕像和模型。本文着眼于规模的两个极端，巨大和微型化，以及它们在塑造感官体验和社会关系中的作用。