Ancient DNA from Stone Age burials in Turkey has finally put to rest a decades-long debate about whether the 9,000-year-old proto-city of Çatalhöyük was a matriarchal society. The research finally ...

Archaeologists have long known that complex societies can rise, flourish and then disappear so completely that only scattered ruins hint at what was lost. Now a new wave of research is sharpening the ...

(Reuters) -DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing evidence of the ties between two great cultures of the period, ...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- A NOTE ON THE TEXT -- EDITIONS OF ANCIENT SOCIETY -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER I. ETHNICAL PERIODS -- CHAPTER 2. ARTS OF SUBSISTENCE -- CHAPTER 3. RATIO OF HUMAN ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An ancient society near the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in modern-day Bolivia was once one of the continent’s most powerful civilizations. Known as Tiwanaku, the ancient ...

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