Human remains found in tightly crouched postures at pre-Neolithic burial sites in China and Southeast Asia appear to have ...

In what is now Shandong, eastern China, researchers have discovered one of the oldest matrilineal societies known to science, ...

This finding documents smoke-dried mummification of the dead, mostly in tightly bound crouched postures, from archaeological ...

'Extra-large' structure with jade ornaments and other signs of wealth suggest ruins could be capital of a prehistoric kingdom Chinese archaeologists have unearthed a tomb dating back some 5,000 years, ...

The world's oldest evidence for purposeful human mummification comes from Southeast Asia, where people smoke-dried their ancestors' corpses 10,000 years ago.

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 ...

Reconstruction of the production-consumption process involving pottery and food in early Shangshan culture. (A) Plant procurement: collecting wild plants and harvesting rice; (B) plant processing: for ...

Southeast Asian people mummified their died by smoke-drying them, creating 14,000-year-old mummies that are twice as old as ...