Aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared July 2, 1937, somewhere in the South Pacific. After more than 70 years, high-tech evidence might finally yield a clue to their fates.

The practice of tatooing and smearing the face with colors have their origin in the distant past and had left their mark on certain cultures today.

An article surveying the cultural history of the Bumbita Arapesh people of the East Sepik province of Papua New Guinea. Based on the field research of anthropologist Stephen Leavitt, this article shows the adverse effects colonization can have on a culture.