New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

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. The research team ...

Evidence reveals that people reached Malta 8,500 years ago. Hunter-gatherers made the long trip there 1,000 years before agricultural societies arrived. Read the paper: Hunter-gatherer sea voyages ...

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 ...

A new archaeological investigation led by the University of Cologne has revealed how hunter-gatherer populations in Europe faced an extreme climate event over twelve millennia ago. And what scientists ...

A recent study revealed that hunter-gatherers successfully navigated to Malta 8,500 years ago, crossing at least 100 kilometers of open water. According to research published in Nature ...

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 ...

Malta’s history has been pushed back by a millennium following the discovery that hunter-gatherers reached the islands 8,500 years ago—at least 1,000 years before the arrival of the first Neolithic ...

In a paper published in Nature, new 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 ...