Genetic analysis of 60 people buried in a Stone Age cemetery has revealed two clans headed by women that spanned 10 ...

Neolithic cemeteries in China reveal matrilineal societies, challenging traditional assumptions about early human societies.

It is exciting to find a matrilineal society in Neolithic China to support Engels’ hypothesis. — Yu Dong is at Shandong University, Qingdao, China. Behind the paper ...

IN his Conway Memorial Lecture, "Science and Society in Ancient China", delivered on May 12, 1947, Dr. Joseph Needham attempts to sketch a pattern of the organisation of Chinese feudal society and ...

Neolithic society in eastern China tracing descent through female line lasted 250 years and at least 10 generations, ... the team analysed ancient DNA from 60 individuals dating to between 2750 ...

Chronologically, the ancient period of the Olympic Movement corresponded in Chinese history to the period from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770-256 BC) to the Jin Dynasty (265-240 AD), while the ...