A groundbreaking study led by Bar-Ilan University reveals that starch-rich plants played a central role in the diet of ancient hunter-gatherers. A new archaeological study along the Jordan River, just ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

Long-distance seafarers crossed the Mediterranean Sea far earlier than scientists had believed, a new study has found.

Humans were making "astonishing" sea crossings of more than 60 miles in simple dugout canoes over 8,000 years ago, suggests ...

Seafaring hunter-gatherers were accessing remote, small islands such as Malta thousands of years before the arrival of the first farmers, a new international study has found. Published in Nature, the ...

U-M expert explains archaeological significance of small African country, a vital source of freshwater and crucial to the study of biodiversity A ...

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

Animal trackers using traditional skills helped to find and identify fossil tracks on the coast of South Africa.