An earthenware piece bearing a drawing of what might be a female shaman was uncovered during excavation work in western Japan, local officials announced. The discovery at the Shimizukaze ancient ...

Scientists exhumed the 9,000-year-old remains of the female hunter from an ancient Peruvian burial ground and suggest that prehistoric women were no strangers to hunting.

The statue will be part of “Ancient Huasteca Women: Goddesses, Warriors and Governors” at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. By Zoë Lescaze The woman, carved in pale stone, wears ...