PREFACE 



simpler monuments of other larger and now more 

 important countries. In these two islands, 

 moreover, research has in the last few years been 

 extremely active, and it is felt that the accounts 

 here given of them will contain some material 

 new even to the archaeologist. 



In order to assist those readers who may wish 

 to follow out the subject in greater detail a short 

 bibliography has been added to the book. 



For the figures and photographs with which 

 this volume is illustrated I have to thank many 

 archaeological societies and individual scholars. 

 Plate III and part of Plate II I owe to the kind- 

 ness of Dr. Zammit, Director of the Museum of 

 Valletta, while the other part of Plate II is from 

 a photograph kindly lent to me by Dr. Ashby. 

 I have to thank the Society of Antiquaries for 

 Figures i and 3, the Reale Accademia dei Lincei 

 for Figures 17 and 20, and the Societe prehistorique 

 de France, through Dr. Marcel Baudouin, for 

 Figure 10. I am indebted to the Royal Irish 

 Academy for Figure 8, to the Committee of the 

 British School of Rome for Figure 18, and to Dr. 

 Albert Mayr and the Akademie der Wissen- 

 schaften in Munich for the plan of Mnaidra. Pro- 

 fessors Montelius, Siret and Cartailhac I have 



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