Anthropologist Sabine Hyland attempts to uncover the messages held in twisted and colored Andean cords called khipus.

A deluge of new findings are challenging long-held scientific narratives of how humans came to North and South America.

The vast majority of people in antiquity were too poor to leave many artifacts behind. But archaeologists have learned how to look beyond temples and palaces.

An anthropologist who is also a singer-songwriter explores how Southwestern Native bands shake up the notion of “cowboys and Indians.”

In ornate skirts and bowler hats, Indigenous female fighters claim their place in the ring.

One anthropologist views the public recognition of traditional lands as a way to remember the past while stepping toward the future.

In an Indigenous community in Peru, a girl’s first menstruation is accompanied by a “boot camp” during which she’s trained in how to be a woman—but that tradition is ebbing away.

In West Papua, Indonesia, both conventional and “green” palm oil projects dispossess and exclude Indigenous people from their lands.

A combination of factors, from geography to group identity, supported the endurance of this traditional body art—even as similar practices were lost in other cultures.

In Peru, the challenge of providing health care to the country’s citizens has spurred interest in alternative medicines that draw on cultural traditions.