The archaeological study of the Maltese Islands has received considerable scholarly attention in regard to its island settings and long-term human occupation. However, emphasis on the prehistoric periods of the archipelago runs the risk of creating a biased focus with limited engagement in successive periods. In the spirit of this edited volume, the present article seeks to provide a broader chronological view of two rural areas in the larger island of Malta: Ta’ Qali and ix-Xarolla. These two areas have offered some evidence, through intermittent discoveries from recent construction activities, of three broad periods of increased landscape manipulation and transformation during the Middle-Late Bronze Age, Roman, and Early Modern periods. In seeking to provide an islandscape-based narrative, this article seeks to show that the Maltese Islands experienced periods of more intense human occupation that would have inevitably impacted the agriculturally viable areas of Ta’ Qali and ix-Xarolla. Therefore, despite the Roman period focus of this edited volume, this article takes a long-term view of two rural areas to illustrate identifiable landscape uses and changes.

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历时的马耳他岛景观：塔卡里（Ta'Qali）乡村和ix-Xarolla

马耳他群岛的考古研究在岛屿环境和长期人类占领方面受到了学术界的广泛关注。但是，过分强调史前时期的群岛可能会产生偏颇的焦点，并在随后的时期中参与度有限。本着这一编辑本的精神，本文力图提供马耳他大岛上的两个农村地区的更广泛的时间顺序视图：塔加里和伊萨洛拉。通过最近的建筑活动的间歇性发现，这两个领域提供了一些证据，证明了中晚期青铜时代，罗马时期和近代早期时期三大时期景观管理和转换的增加。在寻求提供基于岛屿景观的叙述时，本文试图表明，马耳他群岛经历了人类更密集的占领时期，这不可避免地会影响塔加里和第ixarolla的农业上可行的地区。因此，尽管本书的编辑部分以罗马时期为重点，但本文还是从两个农村地区的远景出发，以说明可识别的景观用途和变化。