This transition led to progress in human societies. Researchers from the University of Bath, the Max Planck Institute for ...

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

Humans, not climate, sparked the farming revolution through migration, cultural exchange, and competition, according to a new ...

Learn how early humans made the 60-mile crossing from Europe to Malta, navigating at least partially by stars.

Using a mathematical model, researchers have shed new light on the transition from hunter-gatherer to farming societies. Rather than focusing exclusively on external factors, they looked at internal ...

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

Ice Age climate shifts triggered major population changes in prehistoric Europe through migration and adaptation.

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 ...

Archaeologists find evidence that hunter-gatherers crossed over 100 kilometers of open sea to reach Malta 8,500 years ago.

Malta reached earlier than previously thought: Researchers have found evidence that hunter-gatherers arrived on the island by boat as early as 8,500 years ago – around 1,000 years before the first ...

A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ...