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 E-Mail IMAGE: The study on the remains of animals found at the site of the Chaves cave in Huesca, led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, obtains new data on the control... view more  Credit: Alejandro Sierra The results, exceptional first time evidence of how early flocks of domesticated sheep fed and reproduced within the Iberian Peninsula, are currently the first example of the modification of sheep's seasonal reproductive rhythms with the aim of adapting them to human needs. The project includes technical approaches based on stable isotope analysis and dental microwear o...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Raquel Hernando, on the left, making dental moulds; Photo credit: Marina Lozano. On the right image, Beatriz Gamarra (centre) collecting samples at the Herman Ottó Museum (Miskolc, Hungary), together with... view more  Credit: Photo credit: Marina Lozano Photo credit Tamás Hajdu The lifestyle and eating habits of human groups that have lived for thousands of years can be examined by tooth. An international research group analyzed the prehistoric findings of the Neolithic Age. In addition to providing knowledge about the lifestyles of people who lived in prehistoric ...

© Cambridge University Press La Almoloya, in Murcia, southern Spain, home to the El Argar, a society among the first to use bronze.The lavish discoveries could undermine the idea that state power is almost exclusively a product of male-dominated societies, researchers say. A trove of ornate jewelry, including a silver diadem, suggest a woman buried nearly 4,000 years ago in what is modern-day Spain was a ruler of surrounding lands who may have commanded the might of a state, according to a study published today in the journal Antiquity. The discoveries raise new questions about the role of ...

The lavish discoveries could undermine the idea that state power is almost exclusively a product of male-dominated societies, researchers say.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ca. 1900. Photo: C. F. Lummis. Restoration by Adam Cuerden. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. When I first read “The Yellow Wall-Paper” years ago, before I knew anything about its author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, I loved it. I loved the unnerving, sarcastic tone, the creepy ending, the clarity of its critique of the popular nineteenth-century “rest cure”—essentially an extended time-out for depressed women. The story had irony, urgency, anger. On the last day of the treatment, the narrator is completely mad. She thinks she’s a creature who has emer...