Pueblo Bonito was home to a prehistoric society where women ruled

BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS In spite of some recent advancement in theories of gender equity, it’s no secret that, for a variety of social and cultural reasons, guys ruled most historical civilizations while women worked to keep the show on…

Archeologists are still searching in Honduras for a cursed, magical jungle city

BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS You can’t have a pulp adventure without a lost civilization. You might even go so far as to say that no jungle adventure is complete without stumbling on a moldering old jungle city, reclaimed by creepers,…

Caribou, mammoths and humans? Hannibal Lecter and cavemen have more in common than we thought

BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS Cavemen have always occupied a fascinating niche in our pop-cultural consciousness. On the one hand, we afford them the reverence and nobility that we tend to attribute to all our ancestors, the archetypical “noble savage.” Then…