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 ...

Aboriginal artifacts in Australia that were likely used for ritual spells may be evidence of the oldest culturally transmitted ritual on record. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Ritual sticks, between 11,000 and 12,000 years old, were discovered in Cloggs Cave. David et al., Nature Human Behavior, 2024 The remains of two wooden sticks, partially burned and smeared with fat, ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of an Indigenous ritual in Australia that appears to have been practiced continuously for 500 generations—from as far back as 12,000 years ago to the 19th ...

The practice of finger-cutting among the Dani tribe of Indonesia is indeed real, albeit increasingly rare. When grief strikes the Dani people of Papua, Indonesia, women express their sorrow through a ...

The inhabitants of the Xingu Indigenous Territory have had to adapt their Quarup funeral ceremony to avoid fires and guarantee enough food for all visitors. The climate crisis has left the forests ...