New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

New archaeological discoveries from Malta suggest that prehistoric hunter-gatherers were far more capable oflong-distance sea ...

Long-distance seafarers crossed the Mediterranean Sea far earlier than scientists had believed, a new study has found.

During the Stone Age, humans in Europe and North Africa mostly lived as hunter-gatherers, gradually transitioning to farming and more complex societies during the Neolithic, or New Stone Age ...

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Hunter-gatherers from Europe and North Africa could ... It shows that the Mediterranean was no great barrier for Stone Age people. Future studies, she expects, might well turn up more surprises ...

These results represent the first clear genetic evidence of contact between early European and North African populations, indicating that Stone Age European hunter-gatherers and North Africans may ...

Thousands of years before Odysseus crossed the ‘wine-dark sea’ in Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, hunter-gatherers might ... Algeria — shows that Stone Age populations who lived there ...