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

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Evidence discovered in a cave on Malta indicates hunter-gatherers visited the picturesque Mediterranean island long before they ...

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 ...

A recent study revealed that hunter-gatherers successfully navigated to Malta 8,500 years ago, crossing at least 100 kilometers of open water. According to research published in Nature ...

Evidence shows that hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100 kilometers (km) of open water to reach the Mediterranean island of Malta 8,500 years ago, a thousand years before the arrival of the ...

Archeologists have decoded the markings on 20,000-year-old cave paintings created by Ice Age hunter-gatherers. The results show that early humans used writing to convey information far earlier ...

Hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100 km of open water to reach the Mediterranean island of Malta 8,500 years ago, a thousand years before the arrival of the first farmers. Credit: Daniel Clarke ...