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Some smugglers from Philippine were trying to transport 22 bags of ancient pottery out of the country, in order to sell it abroad for a large sum of money. The local police captured them, together with the unearthed goods, but the antique pieces of pottery proved to be a big surprise for experts. The scientists at t... |
27 October 2008
03:09 GMT |
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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 a flight over the tropical jungle located near the border between Brazil and ... |
3 June 2008
05:20 GMT |
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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 a... |
30 May 2008
06:28 GMT |
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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 ... |
29 February 2008
16:31 GMT |
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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 confl... |
28 February 2008
12:13 GMT |
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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... |
27 February 2008
16:51 GMT |
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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. ... |
26 February 2008
15:21 GMT |
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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 coast... |
25 February 2008
16:06 GMT |
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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... |
23 February 2008
07:56 GMT |
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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 w... |
11 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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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 figh... |
26 January 2008
03:31 GMT |
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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 pred... |
27 November 2007
18:18 GMT |
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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 a... |
6 October 2007
11:38 GMT |
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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 grav... |
15 September 2007
13:36 GMT |
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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 reveale... |
31 August 2007
14:46 GMT |
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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 again... |
2 July 2007
05:39 GMT |
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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 ... |
19 June 2007
02:54 GMT |
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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. ... |
2 March 2007
09:49 GMT |
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