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

Hunter-gatherers made the long trip there 1,000 ... provide crucial information about maritime connections around the central Mediterranean. Scerri and colleagues’ discoveries at Latnija provide ...

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 ...

Prehistoric hunter-gatherers were likely skilled seafarers who could make long and challenging journeys. Stone tools, animal bones and other artifacts unearthed in Malta indicate that humans first ...

In a paper published in Nature, new 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 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 ...

Hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100 km of open water to ... which reveals a surprising and previously unknown chapter of the prehistory of the central Mediterranean. According to the authors ...

A new archaeological investigation led by the University of Cologne has revealed how hunter-gatherer populations in Europe faced ... other regions in the central and eastern parts of the continent — ...

A glassified soil lump dating to approximately 11,000 years ago suggests hunter‐gatherers experimented with copper smelting well before the advent of agriculture. Excavations that began in 2018 ...

Malta’s history has been pushed back by a millennium following the discovery that hunter-gatherers reached the islands 8,500 years ago—at least 1,000 years before the arrival of the first Neolithic ...