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.

An archaeologist who has studied the charred remains of historic people’s lives reflects on what the past can tell us about disasters and climate change.

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.

What can squatting—occupying otherwise unoccupied buildings without any title, right, or payment—teach us about how cities work?

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.

In the face of development pressure and climate change, researchers are toiling to find and preserve ancient sites in Peru that hold clues to how people first traversed a continent.

As high-elevation ice patches melt due to climate change, artifacts and stories long held in ice are being revealed. This fragile heritage needs to be acknowledged and protected.

Surging tides will submerge thousands of ancient and historic places along the east coast of the U.S.

Tree-ring dating helps answer questions about pre-Columbian life in the Mesa Verde region.

In the 20th century, Japanese anthropologists and officials tried to hide the existence of the Indigenous Ainu. Then the Ainu fought back like their cousins, the bears.