Human presence in Malta earlier than previously thought

Human presence in Malta earlier than previously thought

Mediterranean Hunter Gatherers Navigated Long-Distance Sea Journeys Well Before the First Farmers. 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 of agriculture, and the technological shift that accompanied this transition. In a paper published in Nature this week, new evidence shows that hunter-…

According to the latest findings of scientists, the date when people settled in Malta should be moved to 8.5 thousand years ago. The article When did people settle in Malta? comes from the website Wszystko co końca.

Hunter-gatherers' daring sea journey to Malta predates early farmers by 1,000 years, study finds - Tech and Science Post

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. The research team—led by Professor Eleanor Scerri of the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (MPI-GEA) and the University of Malta—found hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100km of open water to reach the Mediterranean island of Malta 8,500 years ago, a thousand ye…