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.

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

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 ...

Evidence reveals that people reached Malta 8,500 years ago. Hunter-gatherers made the long trip there 1,000 years before agricultural societies arrived. Read the paper: Hunter-gatherer sea voyages ...

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 ...