New genetic evidence suggests that female family ties were central to social structures in pre-Roman Britain, offering a fresh perspective on Celtic society and its gender dynamics. An analysis of ...

What rules shaped humanity's original social networks? The earliest social networks were tightly knit cultural groups made of multiple biologically related families. That single group would then ...

Fredric Jameson, who died this week at age 90, was one of the last high theorists still standing. A key figure in the development of Marxist criticism, postmodernism and cultural theory, his works ...

Studies of ancient DNA have generally found that societies in Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasia were organized around the male line. However, investigation of the Fujia archaeological site in eastern ...

Vol. 12, No. 4, The Public and the Private/Le Public et le privé (Oct., 1991), pp. 295-312 (18 pages) Published By: Sage Publications, Ltd. This paper will attempt to show how, in contemporary ...

The recent TikTok trend of showing off perfectly organized and styled home pantries is rooted in a history of classist, racist and sexist social structures, according to one Chicago professor. Through ...

Snuff tubes uncovered at Chavin de Huantar in Peru reveal how leaders used mystical experiences to cement their power. Two thousand years before the Inca empire dominated the Andes, a lesser-known ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday stressed that it would tread carefully while examining challenges to provisions of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, cautioning that it would be “wary of shattering the ...

The quality of relationships and the social organization of a society, influence the transfer of valuable resources not only in humans but also in other primates. Researchers at the German Primate ...

The bench underlined that while women’s rights were important, there had to be “a balance between social structure and giving rights to women The Supreme Court on Wednesday stressed that it would ...