Rethinking Easter Island’s Historic “Collapse”
Controversial new archaeological research casts doubt on a classic theory of this famous island's societal collapse.
Rethinking Easter Island’s Historic “Collapse”
Preservation
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How to Resurrect Dying Languages
Community activists are using creative methods to revive endangered languages and reawaken dormant ones.
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Witnessing an Endangered Puberty Ritual
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.
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Is Space a Human Place?
For millennia, Homo sapiens have looked up at the stars—but only recently have we started to consider what it will be like to live among them.
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Closer to Home
What can squatting—occupying otherwise unoccupied buildings without any title, right, or payment—teach us about how cities work?
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Surviving Climate Change in Italy
Chestnut trees provide a key insight into how people can prepare for the storms that are growing increasingly destructive as a result of climate change.