To reach Malta, these hunter-gatherers seemingly crossed at least 100 kilometers of open ocean, the team says. The findings add to an emerging picture of systematic seafaring in the Stone Age.

"Słupcio" — or "little guy from Słupsk" in Polish — is the name given to the amber bear in 2013, when a Polish kindergartner ...

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

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

New archaeological discoveries from Malta suggest that prehistoric hunter-gatherers were far more capable oflong-distance sea ...

A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...

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 ...

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

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