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

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

Hunter-gatherers probably saw Malta initially from high vantage points ... To better understand the nature of early seafaring capabilities, and how hunter-gatherers might have transformed these ...

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 ...

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, the ...