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ArticleNature2025

Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands.

Eleanor M L Scerri, James Blinkhorn, Huw S Groucutt, Mathew Stewart, Ian Candy, Ethel Allué, Aitor Burguet-Coca, Andrés Currás, W Christopher Carleton, Susanne Lindauer and 15 more

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Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

25 authors.

Eleanor M L ScerriHuman Palaeosystems Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany. scerri@gea.mpg.de.ORCID 0000-0002-7468-9977
James BlinkhornHuman Palaeosystems Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany. j.blinkhorn@liverpool.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-9399-5515
Huw S GroucuttDepartment of Classics and Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.ORCID 0000-0002-9111-1720
Mathew StewartAustralian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Ian CandyDepartment of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK.
Ethel AlluéInstitut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA), Tarragona, Spain.
Aitor Burguet-CocaInstitut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA), Tarragona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-1866-816X
Andrés CurrásHuman Palaeosystems Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1828-7455
W Christopher CarletonDepartment of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7463-8638
Susanne LindauerCurt-Engelhorn-Centre Archaeometry, Mannheim, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5363-2755
Robert SpenglerDomestication and Anthropogenic Evolution Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany.
Kseniia BoxleitnerDomestication and Anthropogenic Evolution Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany.
Gillian AsciakSuperintendence of Cultural Heritage, Valletta, Malta.
Margherita ColucciHuman Palaeosystems Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0934-194X
Ritienne GauciDepartment of Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
Amy HattonDepartment of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany.
Johanna KutowskyHuman Palaeosystems Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany.
Andreas MaierInstitute of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5021-3341
Mario Mata-GonzálezHuman Palaeosystems Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7130-1463
Nicolette MifsudDepartment of Classics and Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
Khady NiangHuman Palaeosystems Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany.
Patrick RobertsDepartment of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4403-7548
Joshua de GiorgioDepartment of Archaeology, University of York, York, UK.
Rochelle XerriNational Museum of Natural History, Heritage Malta, Mdina, Malta.
Nicholas C VellaDepartment of Classics and Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Malta, Msida, Malta. nicholas.vella@um.edu.mt.ORCID 0000-0001-7680-920X

Funding

Max Planck Society
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Maltese archipelago is a small island chain that is among the most remote in the Mediterranean. Humans were not thought to have reached and inhabited such small and isolated islands until the regional shift to Neolithic lifeways, around 7.5 thousand years ago (ka)

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Human MigrationHuntingAnimalsArchaeologyHumansIslandsMaltaMediterranean Islands

Identifiers

PMID40205035
PMCPMC12043505

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