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

Rowan McLaughlin, an archaeologist at Maynooth University, suggests that the disruption caused by the arrival of late Stone Age farmers in Europe may have driven some hunter-gatherers to seek ...

Forest Clearance in the Stone Age During the Neolithic period the hunters of northern Europe gradually became farmers. Using their tools and methods, Danish investigators have re-enacted how they ...

They had Stone Age technology, but their vision was millennia ... “It’s been assumed that the woodland was cleared away by Neolithic farmers, but that doesn’t seem to have been entirely ...

These farms marked the start of a new age in Britain – the Neolithic period (or new Stone Age): As well as ... can still be seen today. The early farmers still went hunting and gathered nuts ...

Excavations at a cave on the island of Malta have uncovered stone tools, cooking site and animal skeletons from 8,500 years ago — 1,000 years before the first farmers arrived on the island ...