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 ...

If you've ever wondered how farming spread far and wide, our research on past human societies offers one explanation: contact ...

Demographic interactions between the last hunter-gatherers and the first farmers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2025; 122 (14) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2416221122 Cite This Page : ...

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

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 ...

Nuclear sabre-rattling is back after a peaceful intermission. Following a serious attack on Ukraine, Russia’s Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said that ...

Recent excavations at the Girmeler Mound Settlement in the Seydikemer district of Türkiye's Muğla have led to the discovery ...

we didn’t initially set out to discover hunter-gatherer communities. We thought we were simply looking for more evidence on the origins of farming in Malta,” she said. This week’s discovery ...