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	Ghar Dalam Phase
		The Ghar Dalam phase represents the earliest known farming settlements of the Maltese islands.
		Ghar Dalam is one of the most important archaeological sites of the Maltese islands.
		The Ghar Dalam ware, produced between 5200 and 4500 BC, is so far the oldest known pottery in the Maltese islands.
	www.maltavoyager.com /moa/areas/ghardalam.htm (0 words)

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		Apart from confirming certain geological knowledge, the grotto of Ghar Dalam provided the very oldest evidence of man's presence on the island.
		Excavations in the grotto of Ghar Dalam, which is about 90 meters long, resulted in the discovery of an impressive quantity of the remains of animals of all sorts - herbivora such as antelopes, carnivora such as bears, wolves, and hyenas, and above all elephant and hippopotamus.
		Nonetheless, it was the grotto of Ghar Dalam which furnished the first irrefutable evidence of human presence.
	www.aboutmalta.com /grazio/ghardalm.html (590 words)

	Show Caves of Malta: Għar Dalam
		Martin Morana (1987): The Prehistoric Cave of Għar Dalam, 24 pp illus.
		Għar Dalam [pron ahr DAH-lam] is noted for its place in Maltese prehistory because it contains an uninterrupted sequence of fossiliferous deposits extending from the Late Pleistocene to Modern times, a period of 130,000 years.
		The Għar Dalam show cave is entered via a wide, low phreatic tube, about 10 m in diameter which cuts 140 m into the Lower Coralline Limestone, however, this entrance has been considerably enlarged by the above mentioned excavations.
	www.showcaves.com /english/mt/showcaves/Dalam.html (0 words)

	Heritage Malta
		Ghar Dalam Cave is a highly important site as it was here that the earliest evidence of human settlement on Malta, some 7,400 years ago, was discovered.
		Ghar Dalam also has a small garden of indigenous and exotic plants and trees.
		Ghar Dalam is of particular interest to those studying the geological, geomorphological, speleological, palaeontological, archaeological and ecological sciences.
	www.heritagemalta.org /sites/ghardalam.html (0 words)

	ghar dalam, malta
		Ghar Dalam Cave which is located in Birzebbuga in the small island of Malta is an extremely important site as it reflects the earliest indication of human community in Malta which was discovered about 7,400 years ago.
		Ghar Dalam is a natural, water-worn cave in the lower coralline limestone.
		Ghar Dalam consists of two parts: the cave; and the museum, which exhibits a remarkable wealth of finds from animal bones to human artefacts.
	www.malta-hols.co.uk /malta/aboutmalta/ghardalam.asp (454 words)

	INDEPENDENT online
		Heritage Malta’s Ghar Dalam is a natural, water-worn cave in the lower coralline limestone.
		Ghar Dalam is one of Malta’s oldest national monuments.
		On top of this sheet is the cultural layer, which yielded a number of remains that are associated with the earliest period of human occupation of the Maltese islands: pottery remains, stone axes, shell beads, flint and obsidian flakes, bone points and domestic animal remains.
	www.independent.com.mt /news.asp?newsitemid=33926 (935 words)

	Alliance Cruises - Cruises around Malta and Gozo, cruise in style on your holiday in Malta! Visit Comino, Blue lagoon, ...
		Wir werden auch noch die Ghar Dalam Hoehle und die Tarxien Tempel besuchen.
		We sluiten de dag af met een bezoek aan Ghar Dalam en de tempels van Tarxien.
		Turen fortsaetter til hulen “Ghar Dalam” og tarxien temple.
	www.alliancecruises.com /cultural.htm (0 words)

	Cave of Darkness, Malta
		The most important and irreplaceable relics, including four tusks of a dwarf elephant and the skull of a Neolithic child, were stolen from the museum in 1980.
		What is unique about Ghar Dalam are the bone deposits of long-extinct fauna, such as dwarf elephants, bears and hippopotamuses, which date back approximately 180,000 years.
		Ghar Dalam is undoubtedly the best maintained site in Malta.
	www.planetware.com /malta/cave-of-darkness-m-m-ghard.htm (0 words)

	Maltavoyager.com - Places of Interest - Ghar Dalam
		At the time the Maltese islands were an extension of the Italian mainland, animals like elephants, hippos, deer and foxes roamed the land.
		Fossil bones of animals have been discovered in caves and fissures in various parts of the island, but the largest concentration to be discovered so far is that at Ghar Dalam.
		Stone Age Man did use Ghar Dalam as his abode around 4,00 BC but, by this time these animals had become extinct in the Maltese Islands.
	www.maltavoyager.com /placesofinterest_ghardalam.html (0 words)

	Tour around Blue Grotto, Hagar Qim, Ghar Dalam and Tarxien Temples
		The underground cave of Ghar Dalam (The Dark Cave) is not a prehistoric temple.
		In fact it is a cave, which served as the abode of the first Neolithic settlers of these islands about 6000 years ago.
		This group of temples is situated in a densely inhabited quarter of Tarxien consists of three temples the oldest of which is the latest of all known temples in these islands.
	www.zarbcoaches.com /tour_bluegrottohagarqimghardalamtarxientemples.asp (0 words)

	ghar dalam cave, malta
		The underground cave of Ghar Dalam (The Dark Cave) is not a prehistoric temple but will interest malta holiday-makers all the same.
		In this context, Ghar Dalam lends its name to the first phase of our prehistory as the scene and site of the obscure origins of stone-age man in this country.
		Strangely enough, Ghar Dalam Cave continued to be inhabited throughout the years up to 1911, when its last occupants were evicted by the authorities before excavation works started on the site.
	www.chevron.co.uk /malta/attractions/ghar-dalam.asp (0 words)

	PILTDOWN: Evidence of Smith-Woodward's Complicity
		The Ghar Dalam paleofauna, the likely source for Hippopotamus premolar planted at Piltdown, was originally described by Woodward in 1894.
		The bulk of the Ghar Dalam material remains in Malta, but comparative collections were sent to Bologna and London, where Arthur Smith Woodward (1894) originally described the assemblage.
		Cooke, J.H. The Har Dalam Cavern, Malta, and its fossiliferous contents, with a report on the organic remains by Arthur Smith Woodward.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/piltdown/drawhorn.html (0 words)

	ghardalam
		Fossils of animals dating back to 250,000 B.C. have been found in the cave known as "Ghar Dalam" (the cave of darkness.)which include those of dwarf elephants, bears, wolves, hippopotamus and hyenas.
		While Ghar Dhalam was excavated some time ago the discovery and examination of Quaternary depsoits is a field with great potential.
		We will visit several Quaternary deposits, and their examination, mapping and description would form the basis of an excellent project.
	users.aber.ac.uk /jpg/malta/quatern.html (0 words)

	The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map:
		Tether Stone for sacrifice in front of the...
		The interior of the Ghar Dalam Cave was...
		The Ghar Dalam Cave is on the south Western...
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