Visualisation of the central grave/main burial of the Grafenbühl mound New genetic analysis of two princes’ within a pair of Germany’s most well-preserved Celtic burial mounds confirms a ...

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.

DIKOME BALUE, Cameroon (WOMENSENEWS)–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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thirty years ago, I travelled to Lijiang, an ancient city in the northwest of China’s Yunnan province in the foothills of the eastern Himalayas. Lijiang’s old town is a tangle of intersecting ...

Nursyirwan Effendi is not wealthy—not in terms of money, that is. Still, in his community many people see him as blessed with good fortune. Why? “I have four daughters,” he said, beaming, on a recent ...

Discussions among ruling coalition and opposition lawmakers on measures that would secure an adequate number of imperial family members to ensure a stable succession are entering the final stages. The ...