The transition to agriculture in Europe involved the coexistence of hunter-gatherers and early farmers migrating from Anatolia. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. To ...

Small, remote islands were long thought to have been the last frontiers of pristine natural systems. Humans are not thought to have been able to reach or inhabit these environments prior to the dawn ...

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 ...

Anthropologists categorize human communities as simple or complex, settled or nomadic, foragers or farmers, and so forth. Actual human groups often defy sharp social categories and the same is true of ...

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 ...