Neolithic cemeteries in China reveal matrilineal societies, challenging traditional assumptions about early human societies.

What was life like some 8,000–9,000 years ago for the people on the East Mound at Çatalhöyük, an important Neolithic ...

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this ...

DNA from Stone Age burials in ancient Anatolia reveals the earliest known female-centered society in a farming community.

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Rice is difficult to grow in the Pacific, so how did it end up in a cave? Archaeologists reveal the hidden history of this ...

Dr Eline Schotsmans has co-authored major new findings showing the “world’s first city” may have venerated women as the ...

The domesticated rice was transported by the first islanders, who sailed 2,300 kilometres of open ocean from the Philippines ...

New Irish-led research casts doubts over suggestions that an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland 5500 years ago.

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this Neolithic way of life spread ...

Excavations of the Eastern tell have revealed 18 levels of Neolithic occupation dating from 7,400-6,200 BC that have provided unique evidence of the evolution of prehistoric social organisation and ...

A groundbreaking study reveals the earliest evidence of rice in the Pacific Islands, found in Guam’s Ritidian Beach Cave. It ...