As ancient cities grew, so did inequality. To build great civilizations, people need to concentrate power – and power, almost ...

Scientists in China have discovered one of the oldest known matrilineal societies—where family lines and inheritance are traced through a community’s women, not its men. Archaeologists unearthed the ...

A new study published in Nature on November 26 has shed light on the origins, population structures, and kinship systems of the people of Shimao—one of China's most significant late Neolithic ...

The Shijiahe Site Museum in Central China's Hubei Province is set to open to the public on Tuesday, offering a major window ...

This marks the first confirmed discovery of a Yangshao culture site in Yangquan. "It fills a gap in the region's Middle ...

This summer, the Shanghai Museum unveiled its latest blockbuster exhibition, “Legends of the Dragon: The Ancient Civilization of Hongshan Culture.” To date, it is the most comprehensive display of the ...

At a Neolithic settlement on the Danish island Funen dating back 5,500 years, archaeologists have discovered both grinding stones and grains from early cereals. However, new research reveals that the ...

Exquisite jade artifacts on display at the Shijiahe Site Museum, in Tianmen city, Hubei province. [Photo provided to ...

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ritual ...