More than 650 acres of ancestral land will return to the stewardship of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians in the latest of several historic transfers to the tribe. In coordination with ...

Whether you want to authenticate well-loved family stories or are unaware of your family history and need a place to start, personal DNA testing has never been easier. At-home DNA tests are a popular ...

When fate presented Gayathri Padmam with a project that involved reviving—and carefully transplanting—elements from an ancestral home into a Bengaluru bungalow fit for a young family, it felt less ...

The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the company’s vast trove of records. By Corey Kilgannon Since online genealogy ...

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In the refrain of her song, “Woodstock,” Joni Mitchell urged us to get ourselves back to the garden, a metaphor for a retreat from modern life and a return to spiritual connection with the land. For ...

Modern humans inherited part of their ancestry from multiple, genetically distinct Denisovan groups through interbreeding events. However, the history of contact with Denisovans remains unclear. By ...

In the Mentawai Islands of Indonesia, Indigenous youths continue to practice Arat Sabulungan, a cosmology that sees nature as filled with spirits, while blending it with Islam and Christianity.

The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel recently reacquired more than 1,000 acres of its ancestral land in San Diego County, the tribe announced Tuesday. The historic deal returned 1,107 acres of land on the ...

Ancestry has acquired the home-movies-and-photos digitizer service iMemories, a bet by the genealogy company that subscribers who spend their money on DNA kits and pour their time into building family ...

As Clark L. Erickson explains in “Waru-waru: An Agricultural Technology of the Pre-Hispanic Highlands,” the elevation of the raised fields within the Lake Titicaca basin varies from 20 cm to 75 cm, ...