About 9,000 years ago, the settlement was an egalitarian, matrilineal society with no evidence of organised violence.

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In the four decades since its discovery, the Fujia archaeological site in east China’s Shandong province has repeatedly proven fertile ground for researchers. Located in the lower reaches of the ...

While a system of matriliny was previously widespread in the southern state of Kerala, just a few families still keep the practice of tracing inheritance through women. Aparna Gopinathan considers ...

While I was trying to prove my Jewish identity in order to be married in Israel, I came to understand that the concept of matrilineal descent that I once thought gave women power, did the exact ...

the effect and values of a woman-dominated society lost its value to such an extent that matrilineal societies are today found in far and between places in the world amongst a few dispersed tribes.

The tribal Khasi community in India's northeast is famed for its matrilineal heritage. But men are increasingly complaining that the tradition has left them neglected and devoid of motivation. In ...

In one of the world's last matrilineal societies, women control property and inheritance and dominate public spaces. So, why are some women seeing change as a good thing? During my travels across ...

James Elangwe, 87, belongs to the Balues, the only clan in which inheritance passes through the female line. But this doesn't mean that women inherit. Instead, it means that when a man dies, the first ...