Archaeological records indicate that prehistoric people in Europe relied on fire throughout the Ice Age—but the evidence ...

Ancient hunter-gatherers from Europe may have voyaged across the Mediterranean ... from the remains of Stone Age individuals ...

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

VIENNA, AUSTRIA—According to a Live Science report, European hunter-gatherers traversed the Mediterranean Sea in primitive boats and visited North Africa much earlier than previously thought.

In a new paper published in Nature, 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 ...

All carried local hunter-gatherer ancestry ... Tunisia and Algeria long after the arrival of farmers from Europe and the Middle East. This fits with evidence that people in the eastern Maghreb ...

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

A new archaeological investigation led by the University of Cologne has revealed how hunter-gatherer populations in Europe ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Evidence discovered in a cave on Malta indicates hunter-gatherers visited the picturesque Mediterranean island long before they ...

Genetic evidence also indicates that Tunisian and European hunter-gatherers were in contact around ... From Cyprus in the east to Sardinia in the west, next to nothing is known about the hunter ...

"The results add a thousand years to Maltese prehistory and force a re-evaluation of the seafaring abilities of Europe's last hunter-gatherers, as well as their connections and ecosystem impacts ...