Archaeological records indicate that prehistoric people in Europe relied on fire throughout the Ice Age—but the evidence ...

Because of this, most archeologists long believed Mediterranean islands like Malta were some of the last wildernesses to ...

The Khoisan are indigenous peoples of southern Africa, made up of the Khoikhoi (pastoralists) and the San (hunter-gatherers). They are known for their unique click languages and ancient genetic ...

Travel content creator Siphelele 'Popi' Sibiya shared that she was looking for members of the Khoisan community While the San ...

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

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

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 ...

Using a mathematical model, researchers have shed new light on the transition from hunter-gatherer to farming societies. Rather than focusing exclusively on external factors, they looked at internal ...

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 ...