Meet Whang Od. She lives in the Philippines and is the last master of the art of traditional, hand-tapped Filipino tattoos.

Only some of the monkeys have mastered the tools. By Rob Waugh.

Images by the photographer, spanning across all of Poland and taken for a period of 20 years, reveal the interiors of Polish homes, the objects in fashion, and what was considered valuable by people in the late 20th century.

Scientists are taking an unusual approach to studying how Native Alaskans lived and hunted thousands of years ago—and how they may have adapted to climate change.

Handedness is an ancient trait, but researchers are rethinking its roots. By Gemma Tarlach.

A new discovery of stone tools and other evidence has revealed that hominins - our pre-human relatives - were in South East Asia hundreds of thousands of years earlier than we thought.

And one generation was erased completely.

Demographic shifts rippling across the nation are fueling fears that their culture and standing are under threat.

I suspect that I was invited to review Magic’s Reason because it is largely about stage magic and stage magicians, a topic on which I once wrote a book myself... By Simon During.

Nomadic horse riders likely opened a “steppe bridge” between Europe and Asia, but recent genetic data raise more questions. By Roni Jacobson.

Dozens of isolated pockets of people continue to avoid contact with the rest of the world, whether it's by choice, or by necessity.

“Rope and knots are the building blocks of civilization. They pervade all aspects of our world.” By Ferris Jabr.

The traditional view of early-human dispersal is outdated as new research is revealing a much more complex picture of Homo sapiens.

2,000 years ago, people domesticated these plants. Now they’re wild weeds. What happened? By Annalee Newitz.

A study of hunter-gatherers on the Malay Peninsula suggests that culture plays a role in how we describe the odors all around us.

Stone’s silent sister in the archaeological record. By Alexander Langlands.

Genetic analysis of an 11,500-year-old skeleton discovered in Alaska suggests that North America was settled by a previously unknown people who originated in Siberia.

Researchers have mapped Venezuela's rock art in unmatched detail. The map features some of the largest rock engravings in the world and some 2,000 years old.

Can evolutionary biology explain the human impulse to create? By Natalie Angier.

On the interplay between freedom and responsibility.