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METAGEUM '07
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Conference presentation: Cognitive aspects of the minds of the temple builders
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About Reuben Grima
Dr Reuben Grima is a leading archeologist of Malta, specialising in Maltese megalithic structures. He has an MA from the University of Reading in England, and a PhD from Institute of Archaeology in London.
"It was a baptism by fire", recalls Reuben Grima of his first real assignment out of college. The Hypogeum, a vast 5,500-year-old burial complex carved into Malta's limestone bedrock, was threatened by water seepage and the corrosive effects of carbon dioxide exhaled by tourists. That was in the 1980s. During the 1990s, Grima was involved with a project supported by UNESCO, which had designated the subterranean monument a World Heritage site, to address these problems. Grima was one of the first students in the University of Malta's archaeology program, launched in the late 1980s. It was a pivotal time, as the country embarked on efforts to develop a homegrown archaeology and heritage service after years of relying on British and Italian colleagues. Today with Heritage Malta, which oversees the country's archaeological and cultural assets, Grima is the curator for a number of the country's most important Late Neolithic (3600 to 2500 B.C.) temple sites, including the six that make up the combined Megalithic Temples of Malta entry on UNESCO's World Heritage List." - Mark Rose, Decoding the Megaliths in Archaeology, volume 57 number 4, July/August 2004
Reuben Grima is the author of The Archaeological Drawings of Charles Frederick De Brocktorff, published by Midsea, hardback June 1992 (softback December 2004).