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

Ditch steel, glass, and reinforced concrete 6,000 years ago, Neolithic engineers in southern Spain were already accomplishing ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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