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People crossed seas to make islands their homes tens of thousands of years ago. How did they do it, asks Michael Marshall M alta is one of the Mediterranean’s most remote islands. The nearest land is Sicily, about 85 kilometres north. Today, with ferries and planes, getting there is light work, but in the distant past, Malta was difficult to reach. It’s far enough from Sicily that you can’t see it over the horizon, at least from ground level – and paddling there in a canoe would take over 24 hours, so you would have to navigate by starlight after the day turned dark. …
摘自《新科学家》(New Scientist)第3580期 · 2026年1月31日,Michael Marshall。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。