A major new study is changing how we understand one of the biggest turning points in human history: the shift from hunting ...

As ancient communities shifted from foraging to farming, the forces driving this dramatic change weren’t always what many once believed. For decades, archaeologists and historians pointed to climate ...

The transition from a hunter-gatherer foraging lifestyle, which humanity had followed for hundreds of thousands of years, to a settled farming one about 12,000 years ago has been widely discussed ...

As they settled, they didn’t just replace hunter-gatherers — they interacted with them, shared knowledge and, in some cases, blended cultures. “The spread of farming, whether by land or sea, ...

This approach allowed the team to explore how conditions could have promoted a rapid diffusion of farming or a longer persistence of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. The study found that early ...

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

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Evidence discovered in a cave on Malta indicates hunter-gatherers visited the picturesque Mediterranean island long before they ...