(BI) ARCHAEOLOGY

Following its emergency in Africa, human populations started migrating and dispersing within and outside Africa. Current research indicates that climate changes and increased human population density may have triggered both human inventive and adaptive behavior and dispersal. To better understand prehistoric behavior and human dispersal in Africa, our team is developing groundbreaking research on the past social and cultural interactions between human populations and between humans, the environment and other species surrounding them.

Eurasia played a critical role in unravelling details of our evolution from the appearance of the earliest Homo species to the transition from Neanderthals to Homo sapiens around 40,000 years ago. The ICArEHB’s group 'Dynamics of Paleolithic People in Eurasia' explores the cultural, social, and environmental interactions that occurred during the Pleistocene across this vast and diverse geographical area. Its goal is to contribute towards a better understanding of the factors that led to our status as the only surviving species on Earth.

The transition from hunting-gathering-fishing to agriculture as the main form of obtaining dietary calories was one of the key moments in human evolution. It occurred at different times in distinct parts of the world. Often, this led to an increase in social complexity, inequality and to the appearance of state societies. We analyse traces left behind in the archaeological, bio-anthropological and palaeobotanical records, while evaluating the relationship between daily human activities and ecological/climatic changes overtime.

The core mission of the ICArEHB is to develop an integrative understanding of past human adaptations.

WOMEN'S POTTERY
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
ARCHAEOLOGY
MANAGEMENT ARCHAEOLOGY
MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY
ROCK PAINTING
ETHNOARCHAEOLOGY
HISTORY OF MEDICINE
MEGALITISM
BURIAL WORLD
CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE
TRACEOLOGY

A. THE HISTORICAL-ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROCESS IN WESTERN ANDALUSIA (PREHISTORY AND ANCIENT HISTORY)
a. Archaeology of death
b. Maritime cultural landscape and navigation    
b. Archaeometry
c. Physical Anthropology and Paleopathology
d. Gender Studies in Antiquity
e. Ancient History
f. Epigraphy
g. Iconography

- Social and economic analysis of societies from Prehistory to Late Antiquity in the Circle of the Strait.
- Study of the Monetary History of the Circle of the Gibraltar Strait in Antiquity.
- Geoarchaeological Study of the Natural Environment, Archaeometry and Paleoecology of Archaeological and Biological Products linked to the Studies societies.
- Analytical Studies on Historical-Artistic and Geological-Mining Heritage.
- Management of the Historical Process of Occupation of the Atlantic Band of Cádiz in Prehistory.

The Physical Oceanography Research Group (PO-Res.Grp) of the University of Malta has a long track record of participation in joint collaborative projects in some cases as lead partner such as in the case of the Interreg Italia-Malta CALYPSO projects which led to the operational HF radar network for the Maltese Islands and the Malta-Sicily Channel. Through these projects strong links exist with both local and regional stakeholders. It is also a partner in several European and Mediterranean networks including MonGOOS (the GOOS Regional Alliance for the Mediterranean) and MedGLOSS.