Mesolithic hunter-gatherers on Malta

The existence of humans on Malta, a tiny Mediterranean island, in the Mesolithic period is puzzling. James Blinkhorn and colleagues model the demographic and subsistence potential of Malta and Sicily during the terminal Pleistocene to Holocene. The authors conclude that the longevity of forager inhabitation on Malta must have relied upon repeated, long-distance sea crossings.

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