Meet OTSF founder & CEO: Linda C. Eneix

Linda Carole Eneix (EE-nicks; November 16, 1948)   

is an American independent investigator. Her best known scientific contribution is her research in the transdisciplinary study of Archaeoacoustics: The human experience of special sound and music in ancient ritual and ceremonial spaces. She initiated the first international multi-disciplinary conferences on the subject as well as field research in Malta, Turkiye and Portugal and is the editor of their published proceedings. She argues in favor of the hypothesis that sound played a role in the impetus for the earliest megalithic monument building and resulting transition to agricultural lifestyle and development of Western Civilization.

Initially trained in Cultural Tourism and Art History, Eneix became deeply fascinated by the Neolithic monuments of the Mediterranean island of Malta in 1990. She designed and introduced a program of lifelong learning in Malta for Americans for the Elderhostel organization, which later became Road Scholar. The non-profit foundation that she formed for the purpose was a contracted provider of that program for 25 years. Eneix’s long career in international cultural tourism gave her a unique world view while it honed her ability to share complex specialized information at the level of the public. During that time the OTS Foundation (OTSF.org), under Eneix’s directorship, sponsored an Archaeology Laboratory for the University of Malta, supported research for its first PhD. Graduate in Archaeology, enabled a bovine back-breeding program related to surviving cattle brought by Neolithic settlers. Eneix worked with the Malta Ministry of Education and Culture on a program of heritage awareness in the Maltese schools, writing and producing a dual-language booklet that was distributed in classrooms. She organized and sponsored a conservation expert group meeting in Malta to evaluate the Neolithic temple sites and come up with a strategy for preserving them. That meeting resulted in the formation of Heritage Malta, the government division that is now caring for Malta's vast cultural heritage.