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Ice Age Bison Kill { Bison Kill By Ice Age Hunters}
Bones and spearpoints found in Colorado reveal how Paleo- Indians slaughtered huge buffalo by the hundreds. Anthropologist Dennis Stanford visualizes the ritual, and actually butchers a dead zoo elephant using stone tools.
Brazil’s Ancient Shelter of the Sun { Stone Age Past and Present Meet in Brazil; Man in the Amazon: Stone Age Present Meets Stone Age Past}
Primitive Amazonian Indians help unearth a shelter where their forebears may have worshipped the sun at least 9, 000 years ago. W. Jesco von Puttkamer documents one of the oldest human sites yet found in South America.
Time of Testing for Sri Lanka { Sri Lanka: Time of Testing for an Ancient Land}
The Resplendent Land, long known as Ceylon, pushes ambitious plans for critically needed new jobs and farmlands. Story by Robert Paul Jordan, with photographs by Raghubir Singh.
Los Angeles: City in Search of Itself
The era of freewheeling sprawl, smog, and show biz runs into a space problem, and a flood of Spanish- speaking newcomers brings a new flavor. William S. Ellis and Jodi Cobb explore what’s happening in our third largest metropolis.
Humpback Whales { Humpbacks: The Gentle Whales; Humpbacks: The Gentle Giants}
Marine biologist Sylvia A. Earle and photographer Al Giddings swim confidently among those benign behemoths off Hawaii and Alaska.
Diamond, the Incredible Crystal { The Incredible World of Diamonds; The Incredible Crystal: Diamonds}
Why is the hardest of substances ever more precious to man? Fred Ward visits mines, cutting rooms, dealers, and buyers on four continents to assess that fabulous crystal.
Humpback Whales { Humpbacks: Their Mysterious Songs}
A unique recording brings the haunting sounds of the Humpback whale to life.

Life with the Pumphouse Gang : New Insights Into Baboon Behavior
Among wild baboons in Kenya, females hold the troop together, reports a young U. S. anthropologist, Shirley C. Strum. Photographs by Timothy W. Ransom.
Mystery of the Ancient Nazca Lines
What impelled ancient Peruvians to lay out huge figures on the desert, visible only from the sky? Loren McIntyre turns his camera on the strange designs.
Rhodesia, a House Divided
Allan C. Fisher, Jr. , and Thomas Nebbia look thoughtfully at that lovely but politically troubled African land.
Provence, Empire of the Sun
France’s south lures author William Davenport with its quiet, independent backcountry life. Pictures by James A. Sugar.
Project FAMOUS- -Man’s First Voyages Down to the Mid- Atlantic Ridge { Dive Into the Great Rift}
The French- American Mid- Ocean Undersea Study sends scientists two miles down to the Mid- Atlantic Ridge. U. S. leader James R. Heirtzler defines its fissured, lava- shaped central valley. Geologist Robert D. Ballard takes you into the rift. Photographs
Project FAMOUS- -Man’s First Voyages Down to the Mid- Atlantic Ridge { Where the Earth Turns Inside Out}
In the oceanographic equivalent of the space program, scientists launch a great adventure in exploration, the first manned probe of the awesome Mid- Atlantic Ridge.
My Backyard, the Adirondacks
Ecologist Anne LaBastille tells why she lives in a remote cabin in the largest chunk of wilderness left in the eastern United States. Pictures by David Alan Harvey.