The textiles women produced made our civilization what it is. By Virginia Postrel Ms. Postrel is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and the author of “The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the ...

The Vikings of legend were fearless male warriors who raided coastal towns across Europe. But archaeological research shows that Viking women were just as integral to the expansion of Viking society ...

Archaeology has a representation problem. For most of the time that scholars have been probing the human past, they have focused mainly on the activities of men to the exclusion of women. There are a ...

This photograph was taken by Dr. Simon Ottenberg while he was invited to receive a chieftaincy title at Afikpo village-group, southeastern Nigeria, from October 11, 1992 to October 20, 1992. Original ...

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