Stone Age societies embraced 'complex identities' and flexible gender roles, experts have revealed, after unearthing the ...

A study of 125 skeletons from two Neolithic cemeteries in Hungary has revealed that men and women had clear gender roles — ...

When the two species got together tens of thousands of years ago, the hookups may have often involved a male Neanderthal and a female human, according to a new study. The findings, described February ...

When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...

The study sheds new light on how ancient people adapted to changing environments and shifting social landscapes over three ...

Learn how a combination of archaeology and anthropology helped reveal hidden insights into the diet and culture of ...

An analysis of the victims’ skeletons, carried out by an Edinburgh University scientist, has revealed that 77 individuals, mainly women and children, were slaughtered and then buried - crammed ...

Ancient DNA shows that hunter-gatherers in northwestern Europe endured for millennia, with women driving a gradual cultural shift toward farming.

An international research team has extracted genome-wide ancient DNA from two 7,000-year-old mummified women buried in a ...

A novel DNA analysis of skeletons excavated from a Neolithic hunter-gatherer cemetery in Sweden has revealed surprising ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A woman was buried with two children, but they were not her own. In another grave, two children were placed. They were not siblings and were more distantly related, perhaps cousins. In a new study ...