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 ...

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

However, in 2021, while excavating a site called Gre Filla in the Upper ... copper smelting among this group of ancient Anatolian hunter-gatherers, yet its absence leaves the study authors wary ...

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 ...

Excavations that began in 2018 at the upper Tigris Valley site of Gre Fılla revealed ... including suggestions that hunter–gatherer societies in southeastern Anatolia worked with copper as ...

Latnija cave discoveries show Mesolithic humans crossed 100 km of sea to reach Malta 1,000 years earlier than previously ...

Co-investigator and professor Nicholas Vella said researchers continue to excavate the site. They have already unearthed a human bone that they believe belonged to a hunter-gatherer.

Read the paper: Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands The authors’ study is based on exciting excavations at the site of Latnija, on northern Malta Island.

At the cave site of Latnija in the northern Mellieħa ... a re-evaluation of the seafaring abilities of Europe's last hunter-gatherers, as well as their connections and ecosystem impacts," adds ...