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 ...

According to Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine, 6,500-year-old objects found deep within a cave in West Texas may comprise the ...

About 7,000 years ago, in the Sahara, two women were buried in a rock shelter in what is now southwestern Libya. At the time, ...

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

In a nutshell Children as young as 2-5 years old actively created art in the deepest, most dangerous sections of Paleolithic caves, suggesting they weren’t simply tagging along but serving a ...

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