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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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On the lookout for enemies

Out of Time

Less than a decade after their first contact with the outside world, the volatile Korubo of the Amazon still live in almost total isolation. Their fiercest champion, Indian tracker Sydney Possuelo, is trying to keep their world intact. But how long can he, and they, hold out?
April 2005 | By Paul Raffaele

Costume designer Charmaine Simmons conceived Jerry

The Shirt Off His Back

Jerry Seinfeld's silly, frilly prop takes its place in television history
March 2005 | By Owen Edwards

Thomas Jefferson lost courthouse

Digging for Jefferson's Lost Courthouse

Archaeologists in Virginia found the footprint of a red brick building lost in the mid-19th century
October 2004 | By Clay Risen

Salem Sets Sail

After the Revolutionary War, ships from a little Massachusetts seaport brought the new nation wares from China and the mysterious East
June 2004 | By Doug Stewart

Magical Mystery Tour

In 1964 a psychedelic placard heralded the arrival of counterculture guru Ken Kesey and his entourage to America's cities
June 2004 | By Owen Edwards

The (Scientific) Pursuit of Happiness

What does the Dalai Lama have to teach psychologists about joy and contentment?
May 2004 | By Chip Brown

a Titanic life vest

Titanic Sank This Morning

An artifact from the doomed ocean liner evokes that catastrophic night in April 1912
April 2004 | By Owen Edwards

Towering Mysteries

Who built them and why? An amateur archaeologist tries to get to the bottom of some astonishing structures in Tibet and Sichuan Province, China
April 2004 | By Richard Stone

Maine's Lost Colony

Archeologists uncover an early American settlement that history forgot
February 2004 | By Myron Beckenstein

Reading Faces

Is that a scowl or just disgust? Facial expressions can be harder to interpret than most of us realize, but help is on the way. Read on
January 2004 | By Richard Coniff

Man of the Hour

Master horologist John Metcalfe keeps on ticking
December 2003 | By Patrick Cooke

Mesopotamian Masterpieces

Exquisite art and artifacts from the world's earliest civilization are dazzling visitors to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
August 2003 | By Richard Covington

[ 1942 Harley-Davidson ] 
National Museum of American History

Wild Thing

For 100 years, Harleys have fueled our road-warrior fantasies
August 2003 | By Robert F. Howe

Uruk was the birthplace of the written word, about 3200 B.C. Its fame, one scribe wrote, "like the rainbow, reaches up to the sky as the new moon standing in the heavens." A ziggurat to the sky god Anu (in ruins) towered over the city.

Saving Iraq's Treasures

As archaeologists worldwide help recover looted artifacts, they worry for the safety of the great sites of early civilization.
June 2003 | By Andrew Lawler

Indicating that Neanderthals buried their dead, a stone-lined pit in southwest France held teh 70,000-year-old remains of a man wrapped in bearskin. The illustration is based on a diorama at Smithsonian

Rethinking Neanderthals

Research suggests the so-called brutes fashioned tools, buried their dead, maybe cared for the sick and even conversed. But why, if they were so smart, did they disappear?
June 2003 | By Joe Alper

Capitol Discovery

Senate staffers come across a historic treasure in a dusty storage room
June 2003 | By Philip Kopper

Keeping our valuable collections (Chinese ivory) from risk.

Curiosities and Wonders

Where do you put all those treasures?
June 2003 | By Lawrence M. Small

Coalition of the Differing

It took Margaret Mead to understand the two nations separated by a common language
June 2003 | By Patrick Cooke

Hazrat Ali, the most beautiful mosque in Afghanistan, dates to the seventh century and is open to Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

The Enduring Splendors of, Yes, Afghanistan

A writer and photographer crisscross a nation ravaged by a quarter century of warfare to inventory its most sacred treasures
February 2003 | By Rob Schultheis

Testimony from the Iceman

The 5,000-plus-year-old Neolithic man discovered a decade ago is telling scientists how he lived and died
February 2003 | By Bob Cullen


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