Scientists have long studied present-day hunter-gatherer societies in search of clues about how our distant ancestors lived and about our social, cultural and genetic origins. It appears now, ...

There was a time when the ancestors of the present day Untouchables were not Untouchables vis-a-vis the villagers but were merely Broken Men, no more and no less, and the only difference between them ...

Hoax or authenticity? The history of the Tasaday, a primitive tribe discovered in the Philippines during the Vietnam War, is explored in 'Invented Eden,' a novel that combines investigative journalism ...

IN THE 1890’s, when Siberia meant to most people only a place to which Tsarist Russia sent its political exiles, some of these more enterprising exiles lightened their boredom there by going native.