By SIMON ROMERO ( Read more... )

A while ago I had posted an article on a 'lost' tribe being found in the Amazon.
Looks like it was indeed a publicity stunt.
This article might answer some questions!

By staff writers June 24, 2008 12:23pm
THE man behind photos of warriors from an "undiscovered" Amazon tribe that were beamed around ( Read more... )

SMH May 30, 2008 - 10:54AM

One of Brazil's last uncontacted Indian tribes has been spotted in the far western Amazon jungle near the Peruvian border, the National Indian Foundation said yesterday.

The Indians were sighted in an Ethno-Environmental Protected Area along the Envira River in flights over remote Acre state, said the government foundation ( Read more... )

A Huge Amazon Monster Is Only a Myth. Or Is It?“The only way you can kill a mapinguary is by shooting at its head,” said Domingos Parintintin, a tribal leader in Amazonas State. “But that is hard to do because it has the power to make you dizzy and turn day into night. So the best thing to do if you see one is climb a tree and hide ( Read more... )

Uncontacted Indian tribe found in Brazil's Amazon
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- An Indian tribe that has had very limited contact with the outside world has been located in a remote Amazon region, federal authorities said Friday.

The tribe is a subgroup of the Kayapo tribe, and lives on its 12.1 million-acre Menkregnoti Indian reservation ( Read more... )

SAO PAULO, Brazil - A grouping of granite blocks along a grassy Amazon hilltop may be the vestiges of a centuries-old astronomical observatory - a find that archaeologists say shows early rainforest inhabitants were more sophisticated than previously believed.

Centuries-old granite grouping may have served as observatory:

The 127 blocks, some ( Read more... )

SAN JOSÉ DEL GUAVIARE, Colombia - Since time immemorial the Nukak-Makú have lived a Stone Age life, roaming across hundreds of miles of isolated and pristine Amazon jungle, killing monkeys with blowguns and scouring the forest floor for berries ( Read more... )

Davide Castelvecchi, for National Geographic News, January 19, 2006

Children of an isolated Indian group in the Amazon jungle have a seemingly natural understanding of geometry concepts, even though their language doesn't have words for them, according to a new study.This doesn't necessarily make the children unique, the study authors say. Instead ( Read more... )