For more than a century written language was seen by anthropologists and other social scientists as a definitional feature of societal complexity or “advancement” (a term that is tinged with ...

Fiber tells the story of its being, each lock carrying the history of its curator, of its origin. Spun into thread, plied into yarn, woven into tapestries, the fiber arts are ancient and ubiquitous.

Introduction : reconsidering steppe social complexity within world prehistory / Bryan K. Hanks and Katheryn M. Linduff -- Framing complexity. Introduction / Ludmila Koryakova ; Differentiated ...

Societal collapse (also known as civilizational collapse) is the fall of a complex human society characterized by the loss of cultural identity and of socioeconomic complexity, the downfall of ...

For a long time, anthropologists believed that a written language was a hallmark of a society being complex or 'advanced.' A new study on precolonial Mesoamerican societies shows that you can have a ...