The foreigners who launched the Early Bronze Age in Malta (2300-1500 B.C.) brought with them new pottery styles, metal tools (copper first, bronze would come later), new burial practices, and new iconography. These discoid figurines found buried with Bronze-Age cremated bodies at Tarxien reveal that “fat folks” had been supplanted by a more abstract body type. Incidentally, Malta’s Stone Age population appears to have lived peaceful lives, with no signs of warfare. But the Bronze Age newcomers were clearly more warlike, as their weapons and defensive fortresses attest.