Contact with 'Lost' Amazonian Indians May Be Inevitable
	Last week a team of anthropologists and uncontacted tribe experts revealed a series of images showing what is considered to be one of the one hundred or so uncontacted tribes currently living around the world. The pictures were taken during ... [read more >>]
	03 June 2008, 05:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

One of Earth's Last Uncontacted Tribes Photographed in the Peruvian Rainforest
	These unbelievable pictures taken from an airplane flying over the rainforest separating Brazil from Peru show the members of what is considered to be one of the last uncontacted tribes on Earth. Painted in red, two men with their heads partially shaved stand ready to attack with longbows the unknown object passing above their heads, while a woman painted in black stands behind the two. Unnecessary aggression? Hardly! This may in fact b ... [read more >>]
	30 May 2008, 06:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Jivaro: The Tribe of the Shrunken Heads
	The Jivaro are amongst the most famous tribes of the Amazon area, due to their habits of shrinking the heads of the enemies killed in war. The Jivaro tribes inhabit an area larger than Switzerland on the eastern slopes of the Andes, in Ecuador, Brazil and Peru, in one of the densest rain forests. The Jivaro villages are made of very large huts, up to 20 m (66 ft) in length, and oval. Around the walls the beds of the family members are ... [read more >>]
	29 February 2008, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Zulu, the Most Fearful Black Warriors
	In Austral Africa, there is a local branch of the Bantu people called Nguni. The most famous of the Nguni tribes was Zulu, famous for its fights against the White colonists. Even if located in tropics, the high altitude of the plateau inhabited by these tribes cools down the clime. Zulu tribes were warlike, and conflicts could start from everything: cattle stealing, border violations, pasture usurpation. The wars were violent and short ... [read more >>]
	28 February 2008, 12:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Maasai, The Lion Killers!
	The Maasai are semi-nomad people inhabiting southwestern Kenya and northwestern Tanzania. The Maasai people practice cattle herding based on transhumance. The settlements of the Maasai are usually placed near a source of water and close to woodland. During the night, the livestock are kept in an enclosure made in the center of the settlement. The enclosure is surrounded by a thorny fence, protecting the animals against the attack of the pr ... [read more >>]
	27 February 2008, 16:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Who Are the Fang People?
	One of the main Bantu tribes in central Africa is represented by the Fangs, who inhabit Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon and Gabon. The Fangs came from Nigeria recently, during the Bantu expansion. Fang legends speak about terrible battles their ancestors fought against warriors covered by long clothes and riding horses. The legends say that the Fang people were expelled from their former territories by red giants; fleeing from them, they reach ... [read more >>]
	26 February 2008, 15:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Who Are the Bidyogo?
	The Bissagos Islands, located off the shore of Guinea Bissau (western Africa), are made of 5 main islands: Orango, Formossa, Caravela, Roxa and Boloma. The islands have shallow, sandy beaches that impede the access of medium-sized or high ships. The islands have forests and swamps, and mangroves install on many coasts. The indigenous population of the archipelago is made of Bidyogo, a matriarchal society. Yellow fever and other disease ... [read more >>]
	25 February 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Who Are the Maori?
	The indigenous people of New Zealand are the Maori, belonging to the Polynesian group. Between 800 and 1,350 AD, a wave of Polynesians coming from Tonga and Samoa on their canoes settled in New Zealand. The Maori tradition says that a Polynesian chief of the island of Hawaiki, called Ngahua, knowing the abundance of jade in New Zealand, a shiny tough green stone used for making carvings, collars and adornments, headed an expedition made o ... [read more >>]
	23 February 2008, 07:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

3 Things About Germanic Tribes
	1. Starting with the 1st century AD, the pressure of the Germanic tribes on the border of the Roman Empire started to be felt. Many Germanic people had reached Rome as slaves; but later, during the decadence of the Roman Empire, some Germanic warriors were employed as mercenaries. By the 3rd-4th centuries BC, there was a general Germanic invasion in the Roman Empire, mainly non-violent. But, to the end of the 4th century, this in ... [read more >>]
	11 February 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What Does Anglo-Saxon Mean ?
	In the last period of the Roman occupation, Britain was often raided by the Picts (from modern Scotland) and by pirate expedition of the Germanic tribes. When Romans left at the beginning of the 5th century, Britain fragmented in small kingdom and rival domains, which employed Germanic mercenaries in their inner fights or against the Picts and the Irish. The legend says that a leader called Vortigen opened the way for the Ge ... [read more >>]
	26 January 2008, 03:31GMT | (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

How to Drink Sperm to Become a Strong Man
	Researches show that strict "homosexuality" and "heterosexuality" are very rare, making less than 9 % of the human population (thus, over 90 % of the people are bisexual!), yet many societies, including the western ones are traditionally harshly punishing homosexuality. And if researches made on humans, but also on animals, show that hundreds of species of mammals, birds, fish, insects, lizards, snakes, turtles, salaman ... [read more >>]
	06 October 2007, 11:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The First African World War: Main Menu, Pygmy Meat
	After finding Livingstone in 1871, Henry Morton Stanley continued his exploration of the Congo basin and tried to convince the British government to turn Congo into a British colony. This, however, proved not interested, and Belgian king was eventually faster. Leopold II turned the river's banks into a huge graveyard for 5 million victims. The genocide perpetrator with a white beard and looking like Santa Claus was a kind of precursor ... [read more >>]
	15 September 2007, 13:36GMT | (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

Google Earth Fights Against Brazilian Logging
	Google Earth is now helping a Brazilian tribe to fight against illegal logging in the Amazon reservations after numerous miners started to take down the trees and look for gold. The tribe turned to Google Earth because it is regarded as the best solution that can provide valuable satellite imagery for the fight against the deforestation of the jungle. According to the Australian IT, Chief Almir Narayamoga Surui said that Google&# ... [read more >>]
	02 July 2007, 05:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Tribal Dances Included in Google Earth
	Google Earth – the mapping tool that shows satellite imagery straight on your desktop – is about to receive another major update after the parent company Google signed an agreement with the Surui Indian tribe from the Brazilian Amazon. Using the partnership, the Mountain View company plans to include high-resolution photos with the Surui villages and show valuable information such as hunting areas, cultural zones and other detail ... [read more >>]
	19 June 2007, 02:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Where Do the Names of Some Peoples Come From?
	Anthropologists have noticed that most primitive tribes name themselves by the word that in their name means "people". But many others are known by the names other people gave to them. Sometimes, these names are not in conformity with the reality, in other situations they are. Let’s see the roots of some names. Bushmen, an ancestral African race (they are considered the oldest living human race) live today r ... [read more >>]
	02 March 2007, 09:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia