Tiompan wrote: There was a culture ,a very distinctive one. Like other cultures that were replaced it did not reappear elsewhere.
There are multiple possible reasons for the frequent changes in culture that have happened in prehistory and recorded history that are not related to impacts or tsunamis or plagues .
btw, I have had no access to the site, apart from gobbleygook for over a week .
"People are still searching for answers to questions such as these, for the first inhabitants
of Malta left no writing behind them when they vanished, as mysteriously as they had first appeared, sometime around 2500 BC."
http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/malta/malta.html
"The archaeological record shows unequivocally that the Temple builders disappeared from around 2500 B.C. Whether this was due to over-exploitation and eventual exhaustion of the natural resources - parallels appear here with Easter Island - compounded by successive years of drought or a climate change, remains speculative. Was the population completely wiped out, or assimilated? A warlike Bronze Age people, similar to those of Greece, southern Italy, and Sicily, succeeded the Temple builders, bringing with them an entirely new culture which included disposing of their dead by cremation."
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/malta/
Again, the last time I looked in detail ca 2006, the exact dates given were ca 2,360 BCE,
followed by a 200 year hiatus.