Caroline Malone is a British academic and archaeologist, currently Professor of Prehistory at Queen's University, Belfast School of Natural and Built Environment , and formerly Senior Tutor of Hughes Hall, Cambridge, UK. Prior to this she was editor of Antiquity and Keeper of the Department of Prehistory and Early Europe at the British Museum. She began her career as curator at the Alexander Keillor Museum at Avebury. Her research interests include fieldwork in peninsular Italy, Malta, and Troina in Sicily, and currently in Britain. Specific topics include archaeological theory and practice; Neolithic and Copper Age societies of Britain, Europe, Mediterranean, and Italy; island societies and island archaeology; landscape and settlement archaeology: cultural resource management: artefacts and technology: fieldwork and survey. Malone headed a successful European Research Council bid for an Advanced Research Project entitled FRAGSUS which commenced in 2013. This project collaborates with institutions in Malta and investigates the environmental impact of early colonists in Malta, and excavated at the Neolithic temple sites of Ggantija, Santa Verna, Kordin III and Skorba as well as Tac Cawla and the Bronze Age site of In Nuffara in an attempt to explored chronology, economy and landscape. Malone graduated BA at the University of Cambridge in 1980, holds an MA in Archaeology and Anthropology, and was awarded a Ph.D in Archaeology by Cambridge University in 1986. She is married to Cambridge archaeologist Simon Stoddart with whom she has directed fieldwork since 1983 and has two children.
Select publications
Megaliths in Malta. Orme dei Giganti. Stoddart, S. and C. Malone, eds., ed. B.C.a.B.L. Tusa S. 2009, European Commission. p. 23-34.
Mortuary Customs in prehistoric Malta: excavations at the Brochtorff-Xaghra Circle, Gozo, 1987-1994. Malone, C. Stoddart, S, Trump, D, Bonanno, A., Gouder, T., and Pace, A.McDonald Monographs. 2009, Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
Changing beliefs in the human body in prehistoric Malta 5000-1500 BC. Past Bodies, Stoddart, S.K.F. and C.A.T. Malone, ed. D.a.R. Boric, J. 2008, Berghahn: Oxford. p 19-28. .
Malone, C., Metaphor and Maltese Art: explorations in the Temple Period. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 2008. 21: p. 81-109.
Extracting the Domestic from Indigenous Sicily. in Building Communities: House, settlement and society in the Aegean and beyond: Proceedings of the Cardiff Conference. Sturt, F., S. Stoddart, and C. Malone, Edited by: N. Fisher, Whitley, J. and Westgate, R, Editor. 2007, British School at Athens Studies. p 47-53.
Structure, art and ritual in a Maltese Temple. Malone, C.In Barrowclough, D. And Malone, C. Cult in Context. 2007. Oxbow books, Oxford. 23-34.
Malone, C., ed. Access and Visibility in prehistoric Malta. Recent Research and Developments in the Management of World Heritage Sites, ed. M. Pomeroy-Kellinger. Vol. 16. 2007, Oxford Archaeology Monographs, Occasional Papers Oxford. p. 15-25.
Cult in Context: reconsidering Ritual in Archaeology. Barrowclough, D. and *Malone, C. eds. 2007, Oxbow: Oxford.
Ashley, S., Ashley, S,. Bending, J,. Cook, G,. Corrado, A., *Malone, C., Pettitt, P,.Puglisi, D., Redhouse, D., *Stoddart, S. The resources of an upland community in the fourth millennium BC. Uplands of Sicily and Calabria., ed. M. Fitzjohn. Vol. 13. 2007, Accordia Research Centre, University of London. p. 59-80.
Dolfini, A., C. Malone, and S. Stoddart, Searching for ritual in the Bronzo Finale: the example of Gubbio, in Studi di Protostoria in onore di Renato Peroni. 2006, All'Insegna del Giglio: Firenze: p. 663-665.
Towards an island of mind?, by Caroline Malone and Simon Stoddart, pp. 93–102 in: 'Explaining social change: Studies in honour of Colin Renfrew', edited by J. Cherry, C. Scarre, and S. Shennan, 240 pp, McDonald Institute, Cambridge,
Megaliths from Antiquity, edited by Timothy Darvill and Caroline Malone, 386p, published by Antiquity, Cambridge,
Stonehenge , by Caroline Malone, Kay Almere Read, and Nancy Stone Bernard, 48 pages, published by Oxford University Press,
Neolithic Britain And Ireland, by Caroline Malone, 288 pages, 183 b/w figs, published by NPI Media Group,
The articulation of disarticulation. preliminary thoughts on the Brochtorff Circle at Xaghra , by Simon Stoddart, M. Wysocki, G. Burgess, G. Barber, C. Duhig, Caroline Malone, and G. Mann, pp. 94–105 in: 'The loved body's corruption: Archaeological contributions to the study of human mortality' edited by J. Downes and A. Pollard, published by Cruithne Press, Glasgow,
God of Goddess? The Temple Art of Ancient Malta by Caroline Malone, pp 148–163 in: 'Ancient Goddesses: The Myths and Evidence', edited by L. Goodison and C. Morris, jointly published by British Museum Press, London, and the University of Wisconsin Press, 224 pp,
The Conditions of Creativity for Prehistoric Maltese Art, by Caroline Malone, and Simon Stoddart, pp 241–259 in 'Creativity in Human Evolution and Prehistory' edited by Steven Mithen, published by Routledge,
Territory, Time and State: The Archaeological Development of the Gubbio Basin, edited by Simon Stoddart and Caroline Malone, 244 pp with 62 line diagrams, 9 half-tones, 21 tables and 36 maps, published by Cambridge University Press,
