Newly published studies suggest that maybe women didn’t actually spend all of their time in the kitchen back in the day — as people believed for so long. Cara Ocobock, an assistant professor in the ...

Prehistoric women frequently engaged in hunting as much as men and their anatomy also made them better suited for it, suggests a new review of studies. For decades, historians and anthropologists have ...

(CNN) - New research is calling into question assumed gender roles of ancient humans. Prehistoric men were believed to be hunters while women were believed to be gatherers. But there’s evidence women ...

When it comes to hunting down a sabre-tooth tiger or slaying a woolly mammoth, the fairer sex has the upper hand, according to two new studies. It has long been claimed that in prehistoric times men ...

In Greek mythology, Amazonian women were fierce warriors described by Homer as antianeirai, or the “equal of men.” Originally thought to be a myth, recent research confirmed these women were not ...

Scientists from Ghent University (UGent) and artists reconstructed the face and living environment of a prehistoric woman who lived around 10,000 years ago in the valley of the River Meuse, according ...

A woman from a group of hunter-gatherers died about 19,000 years ago and was buried in a cave in northern Spain.

Prehistoric men hunted; prehistoric women gathered. At least this is the standard narrative written by and about men to the exclusion of women. The idea of "Man the Hunter" runs deep within ...

Exclusive: Analysis offers ‘smoking gun evidence’ that overturns previous assumption that bronze age individual was male ...

Female farm managers are hidden in plain sight in ancient Roman texts, mentioned in laws, literature and grave inscriptions across five centuries. Modern historians have generally assumed they were ...