Genetic analysis of bodies from a 9,000-year-old settlement revealed clues pointing to unusual societal structures.

New DNA analysis has uncovered a 4,750-year-old female-led society in ancient China. Researchers say it is the oldest known ...

Peter Wood contrasts the university’s indulgence of the myth of matriarchal prehistory with its aversion to conservative Christianity.

As The New Matriarchy continues to impact our society, I look forward to the day when women's values are not only reflected in great brands and great campaigns -- our agencies' output ...

Her matriarchy isn’t the first I have inhabited. My mother, Mildred, was one of five sisters—Sarah, Lillian, Bella and Ada, some of them born in Russia before the 1917 revolution and some in ...

Matriarchy, then, becomes a symbolic space in which the matriarchal voice counteracts the patriarchal tale — but also achieves the twin objectives of power shift and gender shift.

This is the way its done with bonobos, the most recently-discovered matriarchy in nature. When bonobos first got to zoos, zookeepers noticed that male bonobos were frequently injured by females.

Follow the once-in-a-lifetime trip of Katie Sehl, who travels to Karpathos, Greece, in search of an island matriarchy. Does she find a place where women rule – or does she discover something else?