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The social sciences study cultural artifacts, innovations, language and behaviors to discover how humans relate to each other and to society
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Tongue Tied

Some 200 Native American languages are dying out and with them valuable history
October 31, 2007 | By Robin T. Reid

A lock of hair and wool leggings belonging to Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull's Legacy

The Lakota Sioux leader's relics return to his only living descendants
October 31, 2007 | By Jess Blumberg

Archaeologists assumed that the great temple had been stripped of all statues

Unearthing Egypt's Greatest Temple

Discovering the grandeur of the monument built 3,400 years ago
October 2007 | By Andrew Lawler

A chimpanzee named Frodo prepares to display aggression. In a recent study, Max Planck psychologist Keith Jensen and colleagues found that chimps sometimes exact revenge.

Animal Insight

Recent studies illustrate which traits humans and apes have in common—and which they don't
October 11, 2007 | By Anne Casselman

VanDerwarker (examining detritus at Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College, where she worked until June) asks “fundamental questions about how people lived in the past.”

Down to Earth

Anthropologist Amber VanDerwarker is unraveling the mysteries of the ancient Olmec by figuring out what they ate
October 2007 | By Andrew Lawler

There’s a misperception about prejudice, says Richeson, that “people do bad things because they’re bad people, and there are only a few of these bad apples around.” All of us have prejudices, she adds, but we also have the capacity to change.

The Bias Detective

How does prejudice affect people? Psychologist Jennifer Richeson is on the case
October 2007 | By David Berreby

Fred Spoor

The evolution scholar talks about a landmark new study challenging the classic view of human ancestry
October 2007 | By Sarah Zielinski

Young sat on a board that he

Art and Soul

Bluesman Robert Young wasn't just fooling around
October 2007 | By Owen Edwards

In Mexico, the molinillo stirs passions as well as chocolate.

Kitchen Aid

A 1930s utensil evokes our love affair with chocolate
September 2007 | By Owen Edwards

Richard Lerner

The Tufts University developmental scientist challenges the myth of the troubled adolescent in his new book, "The Good Teen"
September 2007 | By Eric Jaffe

Historians have generally agreed that some settlement referred to in ancient histories as Rhakotis existed centuries before Alexander the Great arrived.

Underwater World

New evidence reveals a city beneath ancient Alexandria
August 01, 2007 | By Megan Gambino

Earhart was equally at home in the air and on the pages of fashion magazines.Earhart was equally at home in the air and on the pages of fashion magazines.

The Flight Stuff

Amelia Earhart brought her own special style—even to her outerwear
July 2007 | By Owen Edwards

Large-scale excavations are scheduled to begin this summer on a $200-million project for a 150-acre Stabiae archeological park (an artist

Ancient Rome's Forgotten Paradise

Stabiae's seaside villas will soon be resurrected in one of the largest archaeological projects in Europe since World War II
July 01, 2007 | By Dina Modianot-Fox

Archaeologists have modeled Rome in three dimensions, and users can "fly" through the ancient city

Rome Reborn

Archaeologists unveil a 3-D model of the great city circa A.D. 400
July 01, 2007 | By Andrew Curry

Bruce Willis donates John McClane

Die Hard Donation

Bruce Willis gives John McClane's blood-smeared undershirt to the Smithsonian. Yippee-ki-yay...
July 01, 2007 | By Amy Crawford

A group of researchers gathered data on the energy expended by four people and five adult chimps as they walked on a treadmill; the chimps walked upright and on all fours. People used about 25 percent less energy than chimps did, regardless of which style the apes walked, they report.

Walk This Way

Humans' two-legged gait evolved to save energy, new research says
July 01, 2007 | By Eric Jaffe

Petra

Reconstructing Petra

Two thousand years ago, it was the capital of a powerful trading empire. Now archaeologists are piecing together a more complete picture of Jordan's compelling rock city
June 2007 | By Andrew Lawler

H.L. Hunley

Saving Our Shipwrecks

New technologies are aiding the search for one Civil War submarine, and the conservation of another
June 01, 2007 | By Eric Jaffe

One clue that the Buena Vista site was aligned with the seasons comes from a menacing statue (Ojeda is in the background) that faces the winter solstice sunset.

The New World's Oldest Calendar

Research at a 4,200-year-old temple in Peru yields clues to an ancient people who may have clocked the heavens
May 2007 | By Anne Bolen

Interview: Daniel Gilbert

What will make you happy? A social scientist explains why it's so hard to predict
May 2007 | By Eric Jaffe


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