Plummeting temperatures forced some human populations to adapt to the new conditions thousands of years ago, but the changes ...

The Isle of Skye is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. And here, ...

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

Although the archaeological record confirms that hunter-gatherers in Europe built fires throughout the Upper Paleolithic period (45,000 to 10,000 years ago), there is a roughly 7,500-year gap that ...

A fine mist accompanies the clan as the sun rises and they begin their journey. There are 12 people in total, some of them ...

Hominids have been using fire for at a million years — but scientists have found that humans were grilling down during the ...

Hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100 km of open water to reach the Mediterranean island of Malta 8,500 years ago, a thousand years before the arrival of the first farmers. Credit: Daniel Clarke ...

A major study using data from more than a thousand archaeological sites examines the transition from primitive egalitarianism ...

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 ...