Gruesome Ritual. The Fore people, estimated to number 10,000 and only now emerging from the Stone Age, live in a 240-square-mile area 90 miles west of the famed World War II battlefield of Lae ...

The Fore people, who until the mid-20 th century were relatively isolated from the rest of the world in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, had a tradition of mortuary feasts, during which ...

The indigenous Fore people were experiencing a horrific epidemic of rapid brain-wasting disease. The illness was claiming otherwise healthy people, often taking their lives within months of diagnosis.