Time to go: Longtime Napan, business owner, mom leaving for Malta

Time to go: Longtime Napan, business owner, mom leaving for Malta

Lori Wear, a longtime Napan, business owner, and single mom of twins, is leaving Napa after 25 years and moving her family to a Mediterranean island country 6,000 miles from

Longest known seafaring venture 8,500 years ago brings hunter-gatherers to Malta before early farmers

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, the research team found hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100km of open water to reach the Mediterranean island of Malta 8,500 years ago, a thousand years before the arrival of agricultural practises.

Cave discovery could rewrite 1,000 years of Mediterranean history

Hunter-gatherers in the region may have taken to the open seas before farming.

A cave in northern Malta was hiding the most extreme maritime adventure of the Stone Age. 8,500 years ago, Sicilian hunters traveled a hundred kilometers of open water,...

Mediterranean hunter-gatherers voyaged across the open sea 8500 years ago

New discoveries on Malta show people settled remote islands before the rise of farming

Experts believe that the Mesolithic hunter-gatherer populations were concentrated in large continental regions, but there were 8,500 isolated groups that managed to cross the Mediterranean Sea to settle in Malta, according to a study published in the journal Nature this Wednesday (9). Read more (04/10/2025)