Two slightly burnt, fat-covered sticks discovered inside an Australian cave are evidence of a healing ritual that was passed down unchanged by more than 500 generations of Indigenous people over the ...

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Archaeologists documenting tens of thousands of rock art motifs in the Colombian Amazon have been consulting with Indigenous elders and ritual specialists to help interpret their meaning. Ochre ...

We’re great at talking molecules. We’re less honest about what holds a person together after the breakthrough. Ceremony is the container: elders, songs, prayers, land, kin, language. Strip the ...