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 ...

Archaeologists find evidence that hunter-gatherers crossed over 100 kilometers of open sea to reach Malta 8,500 years ago.

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

The artifacts discovered in a cave—which include dart tips, a boomerang and a spear-throwing tool—were dated to as far back ...

A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ...

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has turned traditional thinking on its head by ...

Explore the significance of child cave paintings in Paleolithic culture and their spiritual connections to ancient ...

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 ...

Ice Age climate shifts triggered major population changes in prehistoric Europe through migration and adaptation.

An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not ...