Where did people come from? Why do people have different skin colors? Why are some groups of people taller or shorter than others? These are some of the questions that scientists called physical...
Learning about people everywhere
The way that a group of people live is called its culture. Each group of people has some ways of life that make it different from all other groups of people. Scientists called cultural...
People Watchers
Would you like to dig up the skeleton of someone who lived thousands of years ago? Or explore the bottom of the ocean for treasure from sunken ships? Or do things to help people live better and be...
How do you wear your hair?
People usually wear their hair in ways they think make them look their best. They also like to be in style. But hair styles change. What looks fine at one time, may look funny at another time. Just...
Decorated skin—ouch!
It hurts to cut the skin or stick a pin in it. But some people don't care how much it hurts, if they think it makes them look beautiful! In Mozambique, on the eastern coast of Africa, there are...
Beads and bracelets
In the steamy forests of Brazil, the Indians wear hardly any clothes---or no clothes at all. But they love to dress up. How do they do it? They wear lots of jewelry. But their jewelry isn't the kind...
Beauty is how we think of it
Every culture has its own kind of art. A temple carving in Taiwan is different from a carving on a temple in India. A Japanese painting is different from a French painting. And a Danish statue...
Which do you like best?
Some people like decorated things. They fill their houses with carved and painted furniture. They hang fancy lights from decorated ceilings. They put lots of pictures on the walls. They cover the...
Can you “read” the pictures?
Look at the elephant! Do you see the soldiers on the prancing horse? No, it's not a parade. These are pictures painted on a house in India. Other pictures tell about the family in the house---if you...
Underground palaces
Imagine you are riding clown an escalator. Suddenly you are deep underground. Instead of a dark, damp place, you are in a magnificent room. It might be the inside of a palace. Where are you? You are...