|
|
| Welcome! |
Hello, Guest
Login if you have a Softpedia.com account.
Otherwise, register for one.
|
|
30
| STORIES ABOUT: America |
|
| Fossils to Shed Light on the Time When the Americas Connected |  | More than 500 fossils of teeth and bones belonging to species of rodents, horses, crocodiles and turtles found near the Panama Canal, dated to have lived as far as 20 million years ago could provide some information regarding the period when the North and South American continents became connected to each other, say geologists of the Smithsonian Institution. The fossils have been found during the digging phase in the Panama Canal, which is ... [read more >>] | | 18 July 2008, 05:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Pachter: Americans, as Fat a Few Months from Now |  | Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter is ready to talk as soon as a new high success game is released and could, sometimes, have some really controversial opinions. This time, he talked about the Wii Fit shortage all over the world (and especially in ... [read more >>] | | 03 June 2008, 12:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Oldest Americans, Found in Chile: They Lived 14,500 Years Ago |  | It is becoming increasingly clear now that people inhabited Americas earlier than what has been previously believed. A study published in April, based on human coprolites (fossilized feces) found in a cave in Oregon, came up with a date for the remains, of about 14,300 years, which is ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2008, 02:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Oldest People in North America: 14,300 Years Old |  | All the anthropologic manuals talk about the Clovis people as the first Native Americans. But South American fossils show that the continent was already inhabited by Asian Blacks (the type of the Papuans and Australian Aborigines) by the time Clovis entered North America. And a new research pub ... [read more >>] | | 04 April 2008, 03:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The First Siberian Language Connected to Native American Languages |  | We all know the theory that Native Americans came from Siberia. So far, we have had archaeological and genetic proofs for this. Now, we have the first linguistic link: a nearly extinct language of central Siberia has a common origin with one of the largest groups of Native American languages, Na Dene, spoken thousands of kilometers away, as showed by a new research presented in February at a meeting of linguists at the Alaska Native Lang ... [read more >>] | | 27 March 2008, 05:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Latin Americans: 50% White from the Ancestral Father, 50% Amerindian from the Ancestral Mother |  | What does Latino mean? A new genetic analysis published in the online journal PLoS Genetics explains: 50% White from the father's side and 50% Amerindian or Black from the mother's side.
The research investigated the ancestry across Latin America and even if a significant differentiation between regions was found, the DNA shows a "genetic continuity" between pre- and post-Columbian populations. The study a ... [read more >>] | | 25 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| DNA Says: Amerindians Originated from 6 "Founding Mothers" |  | Of course, it was not Gitche Manitou their creator. All the Red Skins, from those of North America to those of South America, came from Asia. A new DNA study published in the journal "PLoS One" shows that 6 women founded about 95% of the populations of the modern Native Americans, 20,000 years ago.
"The finding does not mean that only these six women gave rise to the migrants who crossed into North America from ... [read more >>] | | 14 March 2008, 03:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Enigma of the Natives of Tierra del Fuego |  | One of the most primitive human groups on Earth were the native inhabitants of the Tierra del Fuego ("Land of Fire") island, at the southern tip of South America, a stormy, cold and inhospitable area, discovered by Magellan in 1520. The weather is cloudy almost all year long and violent storms are accompanied by tremendous showers, preceded by powerful hurricanes. The harsh clime is due to the freezing humid current, coming from ... [read more >>] | | 11 March 2008, 16:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Native Americans Drank Beer Before the Arrival of the Europeans! |  | We know that beer was first testified 5,000 years ago in the Old World, in the ancient Sumer (now southern Iraq) and Egypt. But the ancient Native Americans did not stay dry till the arrival of the Europeans.
A new research, presented at the Materials Research Society meeting in Boston, revealed that Pueblo Indians brewed their own brand of corn beer before the contact with the Europeans.
800-year-old Pueblo potsherds from the US Sou ... [read more >>] | | 03 January 2008, 03:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo! and America Movil Team Up |  | Yahoo!, the Internet giant company, and one of America's top mobile phone company, America Movil, have shaken hands in order to bring more mobility to the world. The two companies have teamed up in a deal that would provide mobile Web services in 16 countries in ... [read more >>] | | 21 December 2007, 03:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Telus Was Sued Over Branding Service |  | This is what happens when the people hired to be creative are not efficient enough. Probably Telus didn't think about this possibility when it named one of its own services "My Faves".
Yes, not a big problem there, but T-Mobile named one ... [read more >>] | | 20 December 2007, 04:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| A Bear-Sized Armadillo! |  | You could not put this one into an armadillo race. In fact, you could not hold it. That's because ancient armadillos were really big. Now, an American team has described in the "Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology" a new large fossil species based on a partial skeleton discovered up in the Andes in northern Chile. The new species lived 18 million years ago, and the fossils were found in 2004.
"When we collected this ... [read more >>] | | 13 December 2007, 05:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| How Did the Chili Peppers Conquer the World? |  | They can send you to hell and maybe back (we don't know for sure…), but it's hard to imagine modern Latin American cuisine without chili peppers. But also the Hungarian or other cuisines for that matter. Chili peppers (Capsicum species) originated in South America. They were cultivated and traded in the Americas at least 6,000 years ago, before the emergence of pottery in some areas, as researchers found based on starch grains fr ... [read more >>] | | 06 December 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Clash of Two Cultures: Native Americans and White People |  | Their legends say they were created from earth, water and stars. DNA says they came in what is now Alaska, Canada, US coming from Siberia through a land bridge called Behringia. Older western movies depicted them as wild and cruel. But in fact they were victims of the entrance in their territory of the greediest predator they ever faced: the White Man.
The Indian man was hunter and warrior, while women took care of the children, cultiv ... [read more >>] | | 27 November 2007, 18:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Genes Explain How Native Americans Entered America |  | There is a vivid debate if Native Americans from both South America and North America entered the continent in a single wave 12,000 years ago coming from Siberia through the Bering Strait land bridge or whether ancient Americans also came from other Asian areas or Polynesia, coming by sea as well as by land, starting 30,000 years ago. Paleontologists have found Negroid remains in South America older than 12,000 years, resembling Black race ... [read more >>] | | 27 November 2007, 02:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Maya: The "Apocalypto" Civilization |  | There were three great civilizations in America before its discovery by the Europeans: Aztec, Inca and Maya; but Maya was by far the most advanced culturally and artistically. Maya civilization developed in the area where nowadays we have Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and southern Mexico, in a mountain area of tropical forests. The clime is rainy, the soil limy and not very proper for agriculture. During the rainy season, the area becom ... [read more >>] | | 10 November 2007, 03:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sexy Miss America Helps Cyber-Security! |  | This is really something I’ve never see before! You know those "Miss X" contests where, after showing all their talents and looks, the gorgeous women are asked what is it that they would like to change in this world? Well, I’m sure you’re quite familiar with all the possible answers to that question, still… what a contestant has answered to that question in the "Miss America" contest is certainly astonishing! ... [read more >>] | | 08 October 2007, 03:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mobile Phone Shortage to Hit America Soon |  | The land of all possibilities might just fail to meet the mobile phone demand that people in the US will make. The crisis is expected to come in the fourth quarter of this year, as a result of an ambiguous reason.
These results come from a study recently conducted by Matthew Hoffman, an analyst from Cowen research company. They stated that the problem that will lead to the handset shortage could be put on account of a dropping ... [read more >>] | | 22 September 2007, 03:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The First Americans Were Black! |  | It was long believed for a long time that the Amerindians met by the Europeans in the 15th century in the Americas were the first inhabitants of the New World and that 12,000 years ago, three waves of Proto-Mongoloid migratory people crossed the Behring area to the Americas.
But new and not so new discoveries revealed that the first inhabitants of America belonged to the Negroid type (Blacks).
Now, you do not have to think they wer ... [read more >>] | | 31 August 2007, 14:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Americans Catch Russian Hacker After 4 Years |  | I was just browsing the Internet in search of some material when I ended up on this guy's blog where I found a story about a Russian hacker. Then I went and read more on WJS' site. This guy was pretty smart while on the computer, but I'm sorry I cant say the same about real life. First, this Russian dude, ... [read more >>] | | 23 August 2007, 06:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Chicken Proves It: Polynesians Entered America Before Columbus |  | Chicken preceded Christopher Columbus when it comes to setting foot in America. We know Vikings stepped into the New World too, but they were not the first outsiders.
Recently dug chicken bones on the coast of Chile have been dated before Columbus’ "discovery" of America and their DNA matched fowls breeds of Polynesia.
"Chickens could not have gotten to South America on their own—they had to be taken by humans," ... [read more >>] | | 05 June 2007, 03:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Attack on Pearl Harbor – New Trailer and Aicraft Fact Sheet |  | Marking the beginning of a fierce struggle between the United States of America and Japan, on the morning of December 7, 1941 at 07:53, the Empire of Japan launched an air attack on America's military base at Pearl Harbor. This attack later fueled anti-Japanese senti ... [read more >>] | | 01 May 2007, 05:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Europe Getting Everything Last, or Not at All |  | It's true that Europe gets only a reduced amount of games or downloadable content, mostly launched on consoles, after America and Japan poked them and declared their opinions. If American or Japanese gamers say that a certain title sucks, Europe has litt ... [read more >>] | | 27 April 2007, 09:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Installing an America's Army Dedicated Server |  | America's Army is a tactical multiplayer first-person shooter owned by the U.S. Government and released as a global public relations initiative to help with U.S. Army recruitment. Its popularity increased due to the cross-platform availability and cost (it's free). Basically, you can run the server as well as the client on either Windows or Linux, free of charge. But unfortunately, the Linux version has been discontinued as of ve ... [read more >>] | | 13 April 2007, 09:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| How Did The Vikings Discover America? |  | Who discovered America? When Columbus returned from the Antilles in 1493, he was not the first European to have stepped on the New World.
It seems that 500 years before, a group of blond Scandinavians had done it. It happened during the Viking era, when these sailors and warriors were roaming northern Africa, eastern Europe and the Middle East.
In 986, Bjarni Herjolfsson, experimented navigator and adventurer, left Norway to reach ... [read more >>] | | 20 March 2007, 12:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
|
