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 ...

Seafaring hunter-gatherers were accessing remote, small islands such as Malta thousands of years before the arrival of the ...

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 ...

For a long time, the planet’s small remote islands were considered the last untouched refuges of nature—isolated ecosystems ...

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 ...

The team made the daily climb with all their excavation and photography equipment, weighing up to 50 pounds per person.

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Evidence discovered in a cave on Malta indicates hunter-gatherers visited the picturesque ... More specifically, Latnija contained stone tools and hearth fragments, as well as cooked food waste.

These results represent the first clear genetic evidence of contact between early European and North African populations, ...

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 ...