The study included fourteen sets of grinding tools belonging to the Linear Pottery culture, which existed at the beginning of the Neolithic period and reached its peak between 4900 and 4650 BCE in ...

A study published in the journal Science reveals evidence that the 9,000-year-old society of Çatalhöyük in Turkey may have been centered around women. DNA analysis of 131 ancient skeletons suggests ...

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 ...

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.

They found evidence of 20 probable cases of sacrificial murders using incaprettamento at 14 Neolithic (New Stone Age) sites dating to between 5400 and 3500 B.C.

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 ...

Stone age women in Europe were buried alive with legs tied in ritual sacrifices. ... later being used for human sacrifices linked to farming in the Neolithic period, researchers suspect.

Face of a 7,500-year-old woman reveals Gibraltar's earliest humans. Analysis of a Neolithic skull revealed not only how she looked but also where her people originated far across the Mediterranean.

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.