NEWS 09 July 2025 Animal diseases leapt to humans when we started keeping livestock When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

Hunter-gatherers continue to eek out an existence but it's harder every year due to pollution and the encroachment of civilization.

Evidence reveals that people reached Malta 8,500 years ago. Hunter-gatherers made the long trip there 1,000 years before agricultural societies arrived. Evidence reveals that people reached Malta ...

Mediterranean hunter gatherers navigated long-distance sea journeys well before the first farmers Date: April 9, 2025 Source: Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology Summary: Evidence shows that ...

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. Published in Nature ...