Human life on Malta began at least 1,000 years before first believed

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A groundbreaking discovery has revealed that Malta’s human history is at least 1,000 years older than previously thought, and that the first people to ever descend on the islands were hunter-gatherers, not the farmers described in school textbooks and museums.

The discovery also challenges the global scientific community’s belief that hunter-gatherers did not reach small and remote islands and changes the understanding of what these primitive communities were capable of….