Genetic studies point to female-centered living arrangements in Neolithic Çatalhöyük. Yet, power may not have rested solely ...

A new study suggests that a 9,000-year-old society in Catalhoyuk, a proto-city in southern Anatolia, may have established a ...

Ancient bones reveal how early Iberian people managed livestock. A new study shows two distinct herds: some grazed freely, ...

The research shows that the Neolithic shift wasn’t a one-size-fits-all process. In some places, people moved in with new ideas. In others, the ideas moved faster than the people. “In some regions of ...

India’s complex ancestry—intertwined with Iranian farmers, Steppe herders, and local hunter-gatherers—has now been decoded through genomic data from 2,762 people. The study uncovers surprising levels ...

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

India's population is genetically one of the most diverse in the world, yet it remains underrepresented in global datasets.

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

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

Reports of Neolithic Irish god-kings, descended through an incest-practicing social elite, are lacking in evidence, say a ...

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

A new study challenges the idea that the so-called "king" buried at Newgrange was part of a royal dynasty in Ireland.