Because of this, most archeologists long believed Mediterranean islands like Malta were some of the last wildernesses to encounter humans. However, a cave site known as Latnija in Malta’s northern ...

In addition, the researchers found that hunter-gatherers from the Caucasus mountains entered the area about 6,500 years ago followed by the Yamnaya—nomads from the steppes north of the Black Sea—about ...

Carved by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, the figurine is the earliest known human depiction found in the South Caucasus, offering insights into the region's cultural transition from the Mesolithic ...