“We already had some evidence that dark skins remained in Europe for longer than expected,” said Barbujani. For example, the ...

Malta cave provides experts with evidence that indicates humans possibly forayed into the sea before becoming farmers.

The surprising results revealed that some of them may have been descended from Mesolithic Europeans. The genome of one particular man buried at the site of Djebba in Tunisia indicated that at ...

Because of this, most archeologists long believed Mediterranean islands like Malta were some of the last wildernesses to ...

The analysis found that modern European-like traits first appeared ... about 45,000 to 13,000 years ago)', '2: Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age: about 14,000 to 4,000 years ago)', '3: Neolithic ...

The Mesolithic period is known as the middle stone ... Elephants, hippos, rhinos and hyenas all moved north through Europe to live in Britain. Britain was home to most of the species of birds ...

The Mesolithic period, or Middle Stone Age was ... This dietary switch could be the reason Europeans developed lighter skin. "In the food-production theory, the cereal-rich diet of Neolithic ...

Previous studies of DNA from Mesolithic individuals recovered from Spain, Luxembourg and Hungary identified that they also lacked the versions of genes associated with reduced skin pigmentation in ...

Ground-breaking discovery reveals Malta was inhabited 1,000 years earlier than previously thought—by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers who crossed 100km of open sea from Sicily • Discovery reshapes narrativ ...