Study finds women and girls were key figures in Neolithic settlement, with maternal lineage shaping household burials.

For decades, archaeologists puzzled over the nature of this 32.5-acre city, especially after the 1960s excavations led by ...

Further evidence has emerged that 8,000 years ago, women had at least as much status in society as men, at least in one of ...

Genetic analysis of skeletons buried in a Neolithic proto-city in Turkey reveals that female lineages were important in early ...

Researchers said their findings suggest husbands relocated to the wife's household upon marriage – suggesting a female ...

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

An ancient Turkish city was ruled by females who lived in a matriarchal society, more than 9,000 years ago, a new study has ...

Ancient DNA reveals that during the Iron Age, women in ancient Celtic societies were at the center of their social networks — unlike previous eras of prehistory.

The burial, dated to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period, contained the remains of a woman who may have played a spiritual or shamanic role in her community. What stands out the most is that the woman ...

Misconception: Stone Age women didn’t get involved in the action. The Venus of Willendorf, a 11-centimeter-tall limestone figurine of a woman dating to 29,500 years ago.

2,000-year-old statues discovered that archaeologists say could "rewrite history" 01:00 Skeletal remains and skull fragments of two Bronze Age women were found at a construction site in the U.K.