Tarxien phase

Period	Phase	Dates BC c.
e hMaltese prehistoric chronology (Based on recalibrated radiocarbon dating)
Neolithic (5000–4100 BC)	Għar Dalam	5000–4500 BC
	Grey Skorba	4500–4400 BC
	Red Skorba	4400–4100 BC
Temple Period (4100–2500 BC)	Żebbuġ	4100–3800 BC
	Mġarr	3800–3600 BC
	Ġgantija	3600–3000 BC
	Saflieni	3300–3000 BC
	Tarxien	3000–2500 BC
Bronze Age (2500–700 BC)	Tarxien Cemetery	2500–1500 BC
	Borġ in-Nadur	1500–700 BC
	Baħrija	900–700 BC

The Tarxien phase is one of the eleven phases of Maltese prehistory. It is named for the temple complex discovered near the village of Ħal Tarxien, and now recognised as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.^[1]

The Tarxien phase, from approximately 3000 to 2500 BCE,^[2] follows the Saflieni phase and is the last phase of the Temple period, during which the principal megalithic temples of Malta were built.^[3]

References

^ World Heritage List: Megalithic Temples of Malta. UNESCO. Accessed February 2014.
^ Bonanno, Anthony (1993). "Tarxien and Tarxien Cemetery. Break or Continuity between Temple Period and Bronze Age in Malta?". Mediterraneo. 3: 35–47. S2CID 163883175.
^ A. Bonanno, T. Gouder, C. Malone and S. Stoddart (1990) Monuments in an Island Society: The Maltese Context. World Archaeology 22 (2, Monuments and the Monumental, October 1990): 190-205. (subscription required)