Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands, Eleanor Scerri and colleagues' 2025 article in Nature, reports archaeological evidence that hunter-gatherers reached Malta by open water crossing roughly a thousand years before the first farmers arrived. Its strength is that it is peer reviewed research in one of the most rigorously reviewed general science journals, led by an established archaeologist. Its limit is that it is a single site's evidence; broader claims about hunter-gatherer seafaring across the wider Mediterranean should be checked against further sites as they are excavated.
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Citation
AuthorEleanor M. L. Scerri and others
PublisherNature
Publication Year2025
URLhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08780-y
Source Typepeer-reviewed article
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
Reliability tier 1: peer reviewed research in a leading general science journal, led by an established archaeologist. NotesPeer-reviewed archaeological study of prehistoric hunter-gatherer sea voyages to remote Mediterranean islands, Nature, 2025.
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This source names Malta directly: "evidence that hunter-gatherers reached Malta by open water crossing roughly a thousand years before the first farmers arrived."
Source Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islandsEleanor M. L. Scerri and others
Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)
This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Sacred Sites, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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