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.

These results represent the first clear genetic evidence of contact between early European and North African populations, indicating that Stone Age European hunter-gatherers and North Africans may ...

Study shows prehistoric children may have participated in cave art because they were considered mediators between the ...

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 ...

Archaeologists from the series Time Team took part in the excavations with Forestry England Archaeologists have discovered that what was thought to be a single standing stone in a forest is part ...

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 ...