Indigenous cultures
DNA from Greenland Sled Dogs Rewrites Human History
A team of genetics researchers has sequenced the genomes...
The Devil Made Me Do It: Why So Many Wild Places Are Called Hell This or Hell That
Environmentalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner once famously...
Rock Art Shows 260-Million-Year-Old Extinct Animal
Rock art in southern Africa might depict long-extinct animals...
The Paddling Chef: Mike Keen Kayaks 3,200km Along Greenland’s West Coast
Some of the best adventures are born over a...
Great Explorers: Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
In the 19th century, biology, physics, chemistry, archaeology, geology,...
Review: ‘Alpine Rising,’ by Bernadette McDonald
In her new book, author Bernadette McDonald has focused...
The Spirits Known as ‘Zangbeto’ That Safeguard African Villages
Law and order runs a bit differently in Benin,...
Klamath River Flows Free for the First Time in a Century
In 2024, the U.S. government will remove four hydroelectric...
‘False Heads’ On 73 Mummies Tell Different Story of Ancient Peru
Seventy-three intact burials, some adorned with intricately carved masks,...
Stone Age Carvings Are so Precise That They Reveal Species, Gender, Even Age
Newly discovered Stone Age carvings in western Namibia are...
New Study Busts Enduring Myths About Hunter-Gatherer Gender Roles
Imagine a hunter-gatherer society of 10,000 years ago. What...
Caubvick: the Resilient Inuit Woman Who Captivated British Royalty and Survived Smallpox
I was wandering around Labrador’s small, relatively flat Eskimo...
Amazon Peoples Resist ‘Kissing-Bug Disease’
Scientists have pinpointed an exciting evolutionary mutation in South...
Weekend Warm-Up: ‘The Hunt’ To Restore Indigenous Identity
How do Native Americans reclaim the identity that was...
Exploration Mysteries: The Disappearance of the Ancestral Puebloans
The Ancestral Puebloans (or Anasazi) were ancient pre-Columbian people...
Indigenous Groups Restoring Bison to North America
Few stories define the history of the American West...
Exploration Mysteries: The Disappearance of Sequoyah
Sequoyah, also known as George Gist (or Guess), was...
Magic Mountains: Six Sacred Peaks Around the World
Mountains can be holy places, venerated by cultures both...
