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

Long-distance seafarers crossed the Mediterranean Sea far earlier than scientists had believed, a new study has found.

Scientists have discovered mammoth remains dating back 25,000 years. There wouldn't be anything unusual about this, if not for the mysterious marks on the animals' bones, suggesting they were hunted ...

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 ...

DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals that European hunter-gatherers may have visited North Africa by boat ...

Thousands of years before Odysseus crossed the ‘wine-dark sea’ in Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, hunter-gatherers might have island-hopped their way to Africa across the Mediterranean.

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

A glassified soil lump dating to approximately 11,000 years ago suggests hunter‐gatherers experimented with copper smelting well before the advent of agriculture. Excavations that began in 2018 ...

Ancient hunter-gatherers from Europe may have voyaged across the Mediterranean to Northern Africa around 8,500 years ago, new research suggests. Ancient DNA collected from the remains of Stone Age ...