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 ...

However, recent research challenges this “man the hunter” hypothesis, revealing a more nuanced reality in which women played ...

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 ...

Cambridge University researchers found that prehistoric females may have been a whole lot tougher than today's strongest athletes. When you picture women of the prehistoric era, you probably envision ...

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 ...

(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 ...

A prehistoric human skeleton buried alongside a number of wild animal remains may represent the burial of a "shaman" who died around 12,000 years ago, a study has proposed. The burial was excavated in ...