Latnija Cave Enigma, Malta’s Earliest Seafarers Rewriting Mediterranean Prehistory
Archaeological work at Latnija Cave on Malta has led to a groundbreaking revelation: human presence on the island stretches 1,000 years earlier than previously thought, placing hunter-gatherer occupancy in the Mesolithic era—not the Neolithic—around 6,000 years ago. This discovery, published in Nature by a team from the Max Planck Institute and the University of Malta,…