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It is generally agreed that the physical environment is a
determinant and conditioning factor in the formation and
development of cultures and the pre-historic cultures that
planted their roots on the island of Gozo, were no exception,
even if one of them, the temple culture, achieved heights of
grandeur and magnificence that went beyond what one would
normally deem possible, given the very limited resources. So
much so, that for decades students of pre-historic and ancient
civilizations could not explain the phenomenal rise of the
megalithic temple culture on Gozo and Malta, if not as a
by-product of the richer and more sophisticated proto-urban
civilizations of the Aegean and the near east. MacKie1977>.
The Islands greater fertility might well be the
factor, together with it's more northern position, behind the
possible earlier settlement of man in Gozo, than in Malta.

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