Long-distance seafarers crossed the Mediterranean far earlier than scientists had believed, a new study has found.

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

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 ...

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 ...

According to the study, Stone Age farmers who depended on the sun for their harvests may have carved solar designs on stones to acknowledge their reliance on the sun, then buried the sun stones as ...

But unlike those western Maghreb hunter-gatherers — whose ancestry was largely replaced by European farmers probably arriving ... was no great barrier for Stone Age people.