Cleisthenes was the statesman who laid the foundations of democracy in ancient Athens by dividing Attica into ten tribes by location.

You've probably heard that expression "you are what you eat." There's a lot more truth to it than you may think, due to the 100 trillion microbes that make up your microbiome: a combination of fungi, ...

The story of Sacagawea that most of us know is incomplete and not entirely correct. The Hidatsa tribe and other tribes have a ...

A researcher who has lived and worked with hunter-gatherer tribes said we can learn from premodern societies how to live ...

For millennia, couples have had to decide where to live. "For the vast majority of human history," says Lara Cassidy, a geneticist at Trinity College Dublin, "societies were centered around ties of ...

GUDUTA, India (AP) — The ritual began with a thunderous roll of leather drums, its clamor echoing through the entire village. Women dressed in colorful saris broke into an Indigenous folk dance, ...

Tribes that want the skeleton reburied say they are going to try again within a year to change federal law to repatriate ancient remains, including Kennewick Man's. And a book that details the ...