The archaeological discoveries span several areas of ancient Chinese life, including agriculture, textiles, animal ...

DNA reveals that in prehistoric China, men remained in their community, while women joined new family lineages.

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out in early Chinese farming settlements since the Neolithic Period. Now, a ...

A new study maps locations of Chinese tombs, revealing over 4,000 years of power and wealth in early human societies.

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural settlements, marking one of the greatest transformations in human history. This ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several famous ...