Having persuaded the Tibet Academy to let them conduct fieldwork in all seasons, Goldstein and Beall were able to observe the nomads' entire annual cycle: sheep shearing in the late summer, ...

Denisovans survived and thrived on the high-altitude Tibetan plateau for more than 100,000 ... including woolly rhinos, blue sheep, wild yaks, marmots and birds. The team of archaeologists working ...

By age seven, Cidan Yuzhen was herding sheep and harvesting highland barley. On snow-draped grasslands over 3,800 meters above sea level, she traversed mountains, often scaling two peaks daily to ...

To help his father, Jiantan has to learn how to herd sheep. While trying to learn his new responsibility, he is saved by a stray gold-colored Tibetan Mastiff. Both Jiantan and the big dog help ...