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

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

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 ...

The study also documents evidence of habitation found in the Għar Latnija cave, where researchers discovered stone tools characteristic of camps used by hunter-gatherers. The archaeological ...

The Latnija site is a natural rock formation ... these island systems over time, further archaeological fieldwork and analyses are needed. The hunter-gatherer records of places, such as Tunisia ...

but groups of hunter-gatherers who, to reach the island, had to cross at least 100 kilometers of open sea, making this episode the earliest known evidence of long-distance navigation in the ...

before the invention of boats with sails—an astonishing feat for hunter-gatherers likely using simple dugout canoes. At the cave site of Latnija in the northern Mellieħa region of Malta ...

A new archaeological investigation led by the University of Cologne has revealed how hunter-gatherer populations in Europe faced ... densities based on the distribution of archaeological sites. This ...

A glassified soil lump dating to approximately 11,000 years ago suggests hunter‐gatherers experimented ... began in 2018 at the upper Tigris Valley site of Gre Fılla revealed stone‐built ...

Evidence shows that hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100 ... and the University of Malta. At the cave site of Latnija in the northern Mellieħa region of Malta, the researchers found ...