Hot water, light, TV, computer - all these items are familiar to modern man. But there are places on the planet where these things can cause shock and awe like magic. We are talking about the settlements of wild tribes that have preserved their way of life and habits since ancient times. And these are not the wild tribes of Africa, who now walk in comfortable clothes and know how to communicate with other peoples. We are talking about Aboriginal settlements that were discovered relatively recently. They do not seek to meet modern people, rather the opposite. If you try to visit them, you may be met with spears or arrows.

The development of digital technology and the development of new territories leads a person to a meeting with unknown inhabitants of our planet. Their habitat is hidden from prying eyes. Settlements can be located in dense forests or on uninhabited islands.

Tribes of the Nicobar and Andaman Islands

On the group of islands located in the Indian Ocean basin, to this day there are 5 tribes, the development of which stopped in the Stone Age. They are unique in their culture and way of life. The official authorities of the islands look after the natives and try not to interfere in their life and way of life. The total population of all tribes is about 1000 people. The settlers are engaged in hunting, fishing, farming and almost no contact with the outside world. One of the most vicious tribes is the inhabitants of Sentinel Island. The number of all settlers of the tribe does not exceed 250 people. But, despite the small number, these natives are ready to repulse anyone who sets foot on their lands.

Tribes of North Sentinel Island

The inhabitants of Sentinel Island belong to a group of so-called non-contact tribes. They are distinguished by a high level of aggression and lack of sociability towards a stranger. Interestingly, the emergence and development of the tribe is still not fully known. Scientists cannot understand how black people could begin to live in such a limited space on an island washed by the ocean. There is an assumption that these lands were inhabited by inhabitants more than 30,000 years ago. People remained within their lands and housing and did not move to other territories. Time passed, and the water separated them from other lands. Since the tribe did not develop in terms of technology, they did not have contacts with the outside world, so any guest for these people is a stranger or enemy. Moreover, communication with civilized people is simply contraindicated for the Sentinel Island tribe. Viruses and bacteria, to which modern man has immunity, can easily kill any member of the tribe. The only positive contact with the settlers of the island was made in the mid-90s of the last century.

Wild tribes in the Amazon forests

Are there wild tribes today that modern people have never communicated with? Yes, there are such tribes, and one of them was recently discovered in the dense forests of the Amazon. This was due to active deforestation. Scientists have long said that these places can be inhabited by wild tribes. This conjecture has been confirmed. The only video filming of the tribe was made from a light aircraft by one of the largest television channels in the United States. The footage shows that the settlers' huts are made in the form of tents covered with leaves. The inhabitants themselves are armed with primitive spears and bows.

Piraha

The Piraha tribe is about 200 people. They live in the Brazilian jungle and differ from other natives in a very poor development of the language and the absence of a number system. In other words, they can't count. They can also be called the most illiterate inhabitants of the planet. Members of the tribe are forbidden to speak about what they have not learned from their own experience or to adopt words from other languages. In the speech of the Piraha there is no designation of animals, fish, plants, color shades and weather. Despite this, the natives are not malicious in relation to others. Moreover, they often act as guides through the thickets of the jungle.

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This tribe lives in the forests of Papua New Guinea. They were discovered only in the mid-90s of the last century. They found a home in the thickets of forests between two mountain ranges. Despite their funny name, the natives cannot be called good-natured. The cult of the warrior is widespread among the settlers. They are so hardy and strong in spirit that they can eat larvae and pasture food for weeks until they find suitable prey on the hunt.

Karavai live mainly on trees. Making their huts from branches and twigs like huts, they protect themselves from evil spirits and witchcraft. Pigs are revered in the tribe. These animals are used as donkeys or horses. They can only be slaughtered and eaten when the pig becomes old and can no longer carry a load or a person.

In addition to the natives living on the islands or in the tropical forests, one can meet people leading a life according to old customs in our country. So in Siberia for a long time the Lykov family lived. Fleeing from persecution in the 30s of the last century, they went to the remote taiga of Siberia. For 40 years they survived by adapting to the harsh conditions of the forest. During this time, the family managed to almost completely lose the entire crop of plants and recreate it anew from a few surviving seeds. The Old Believers were engaged in hunting and fishing. The Lykovs' clothes were made from the skins of dead animals and coarse self-woven hemp threads.

The family retained the old customs, the chronology and the original Russian language. In 1978, they were accidentally discovered by geologists. The meeting was a fatal discovery for the Old Believers. Contact with civilization led to diseases of individual family members. Two of them died suddenly from kidney problems. A little later, the youngest son died of pneumonia. This once again proved that the contact of modern man with representatives of more ancient peoples can be deadly for the latter.

In our age of high technology, a variety of gadgets and broadband Internet, there are still people who have not seen all this. Time seems to have stopped for them, they do not really make contact with the outside world, and their way of life has not changed for thousands of years.

In the forgotten and undeveloped corners of our planet, such uncivilized tribes live that you are simply amazed how time has not touched them with its modernizing hand. Living, like their ancestors, among palm trees and eating hunting and grazing, these guys feel great and are not in a hurry to the "concrete jungle" of big cities.

OfficePlankton decided to highlight the wildest tribes of modern times that actually exist.

1 Sentinelese

Having chosen the island of North Sentinel, between India and Thailand, the Sentinelese have occupied almost the entire coast and meet with arrows anyone who tries to establish contact with them. Being engaged in hunting, gathering and catching fish, entering into family marriages, the tribe maintains a number of approximately 300 people.

An attempt to contact these people ended with the shelling of the National Geographic group, however, after they left gifts on the shore, among which red buckets were especially popular. They shot the left pigs from afar and buried them, not even thinking to eat them, everything else was thrown into the ocean in a heap.

An interesting fact is that they predict natural disasters and massively hide deeper into the jungle when storms approach. The tribe survived the 2004 Indian earthquake and the numerous devastating tsunamis.

2 Masai

These born pastoralists are the largest and most warlike tribe in Africa. They live only by cattle breeding, not neglecting the theft of cattle from other, “lower”, as they consider, tribes, because, in their opinion, their supreme god gave them all the animals on the planet. It is in their photographs with drawn earlobes and disks the size of a good tea saucer inserted into the lower lip that you stumble across the Internet.

Maintaining good morale, considering as a man only all those who killed a lion with a spear, the Massai fought back both European colonialists and invaders from other tribes, owning the ancestral territories of the famous Serengeti Valley and the Ngorongoro volcano. However, under the influence of the 20th century, the number of people in the tribe is declining.

Polygamy, which used to be considered honorable, has now become simply necessary, as there are fewer and fewer men. Children have been grazing cattle almost from the age of 3, and the rest of the household is in charge of women, while men doze with a spear in their hand inside the hut in peacetime or run with guttural sounds on military campaigns against neighboring tribes.

3 Nicobar and Andaman tribes

An aggressive company of cannibal tribes lives, you guessed it, by raiding and eating each other. The superiority among all these savages is held by the Korubo tribe. Men, neglecting hunting and gathering, are very skilled in making poisoned darts, catching snakes with their bare hands for this, and stone axes, grinding the edge of the stone for days to such an extent that it becomes a very doable task to cut off their heads.

Constantly fighting among themselves, the tribes, however, do not raid endlessly, as they understand that the supply of "humans" is very slowly renewable. Some tribes generally set aside only special holidays for this - the holidays of the goddess of Death. Women of the Nicobar and Andaman tribes also do not disdain to eat their children or old people in case of unsuccessful raids on neighboring tribes.

4 Piraha

A rather small tribe also lives in the Brazilian jungle - about two hundred people. They are notable for the most primitive language on the planet and the absence of at least some system of calculus. Holding primacy among the most undeveloped tribes, if it can certainly be called primacy, the feasts have no mythology, history of the creation of the world and gods.

They are forbidden to speak about what they did not know from their own experience, to adopt the words of other people and introduce new designations into their language. There are also no shades of flowers, designations of weather, animals and plants. They live mainly in huts made of branches, refusing to accept as a gift all kinds of objects of civilization. Piraha, however, are quite often called out as guides to the jungle, and, despite their ineptness and underdevelopment, have not yet been seen in aggression.

5 Karavai

The most brutal tribe lives in the forests of Papua New Guinea, between two mountain ranges, they were discovered very late, only in the 90s of the last century. There is a tribe with a funny Russian-sounding name, as if in the Stone Age. Dwellings - children's huts from twigs on trees that we built in childhood - protection from sorcerers, they will find them on the ground.

Stone axes and knives made from animal bones, noses and ears are pierced with the teeth of dead predators. Loaves hold wild pigs in high esteem, which they do not eat, but tame, especially those taken from their mother at a young age, and used as riding ponies. Only when the pig is old and can no longer carry cargo and little ape-like men, which loaves are, can the pig be slaughtered and eaten.
The entire tribe is extremely warlike and hardy, the warrior cult flourishes there, the tribe can sit on larvae and worms for weeks, and despite the fact that all the women of the tribe are “common”, the love festival occurs only once a year, the rest of the time men should not pester to women.

Cayapo Indians

The Cayapo are a Brazilian tribe that live along the Xingu River in 44 separate villages linked by barely visible paths. They call themselves mebengokre, which means "people of the big water". Unfortunately, their "big water" will change drastically as the huge Belo Monte Dam is being built on the Xingu River. The 668 square kilometer reservoir will flood 388 square kilometers of forest, partially destroying the habitat of the Kayapo tribe. The Indians fought against the penetration of modern man for many centuries, fighting everyone from hunters and animal trappers to lumberjacks and rubber miners. They even successfully prevented the construction of the largest dam in 1989. Their population was once only 1,300, but has since grown to almost 8,000. The question today is how people will survive if their culture is threatened. Members of the Kayapo tribe are famous for their body painting, agriculture, and colorful headdresses. Modern technology is already infiltrating their lives - Kayapos drive motor boats, watch TV, or even harvest wood on Facebook.

Kalash

Nestled in the Pakistani mountains, on the border with the Taliban-controlled region of Afghanistan, is the most unusual tribe of white, European-looking people known as the Kalash. Many Kalash have blond hair and blue eyes, a stark contrast to their darker-skinned neighbors. Not only do the Kalash tribe differ in physical characteristics, they have a very different culture from Muslims. They are polytheistic, have a unique folklore, produce wine (which is forbidden in Muslim culture), wear brightly colored clothes, and give a lot more freedom to women. They are a decidedly happy, peaceful people who love to dance and host numerous annual festivals. No one knows for sure how this light-skinned tribe came to be in remote Pakistan, but the Kalash claim they are the long-lost descendants of Alexander the Great's army. DNA test evidence shows that they had an infusion of European blood during the time of Alexander's conquests, so there is a possibility that their stories are true. For many years, the surrounding Muslims persecuted the Kalash and forced many to convert to Islam. Today, approximately 4,000-6,000 members of the tribe remain, mainly engaged in agriculture.

Cahuilla tribe

While southern California is most often associated with Hollywood, surfers and actors, the area is home to 9 Indian reservations inhabited by the ancient Cahuilla people. They have lived in the Coachella Valley for over 3,000 years and settled there when the prehistoric Lake Cahuilla still existed. Despite problems with disease, gold rushes, and persecution, this tribe managed to survive, although it dwindled to 3,000 people. They have lost much of their heritage, and the unique Cahuilla language is on the brink of extinction. This dialect is a mixture of Ute and Aztec languages, in which only 35 elderly people can speak. At present, the elders are trying hard to pass on their language, “bird songs” and other cultural characteristics to the younger generation. Like most of the indigenous peoples of North America, they faced the problem of assimilation into the wider community in an attempt to maintain their old traditions.

Tribe Spinifex

The Spinifex tribe, or Pila Nguru, are indigenous people living in the Great Desert of Victoria. They have lived in one of the harshest climates for life for at least 15,000 years. Even after the Europeans settled in Australia, this tribe was not affected, as they occupied a too dry, inhospitable environment. Everything changed in the 1950s when Spinifex's Earth, unsuitable for Agriculture, Chosen For Nuclear Tests. In 1953, the British and Australian governments detonated nuclear bombs in the homeland of the Spinifex, without any consent and after a short warning. Most Aboriginal people were displaced and did not return to their homeland until the late 1980s. Upon their return, they faced heavy opposition in their attempt to legally claim the area as their own. Interestingly, their beautiful artwork helped prove the Spinifex's deep connection to this land, after which they were recognized as indigenous in 1997. Their artwork has received massive recognition and has appeared in art exhibitions around the world. It is difficult to count how many members of the tribe exist at the moment, but one of their largest communities, known as Tjuntyuntyara, has approximately 180-220 people.

Bataki

The Philippine island of Palawan is home to the Batak people, the most genetically diverse tribe on the planet. They are believed to be of a Negroid-Australoid race, distantly related to the people from whom we are all descended. This means that they are the descendants of one of the first groups that left Africa about 70,000 years ago and traveled from the Asian mainland to the Philippines about 20,000 years later. Typical of Negroids, Bataks are small in stature and have strange, unusual hair. Traditionally, women wear sarongs while men only cover their bodies with a loincloth and feathers or jewels. The whole commune works together to hunt and harvest, after which they have celebrations. In general, Bataks are a shy, peaceful people who prefer to hide deep in the jungle without confrontation with outsiders. Like other local tribes, disease, land grabs, and other modern invasions have devastated the Batak population. Currently, there are approximately 300-500 people. Ironically, among the biggest dangers to the tribe has been environmental protection. The Philippine government has banned logging in certain protected areas, and the Batak traditionally practice tree cutting. Without the ability to grow food efficiently, many suffer from malnutrition.

Andamanese

Andamanese are also classified as Negroid, but due to their extremely short stature (adult males are below 150 centimeters) they are commonly referred to as Pygmies. They inhabit the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. Like the Batak, the Andamanese are one of the first groups to migrate out of Africa, and developed in isolation until the 18th century. Up until the 19th century, they didn't even know how to make a fire. The Andamanese are divided into separate tribes, each with their own culture and language. One group disappeared when its last member died at the age of 85 in 2010. Another group, the Sentinelese, resists outside contact so fiercely that even in today's technological world, very little is known about them. Those who have not integrated into the larger Indian culture still live like their ancestors. For example, they use a single type of weapon, a bow and arrow, to hunt pig, turtle, and fish. Men and women collect roots, tubers and honey together. Obviously, their lifestyle is working for them, as doctors rate the health and nutritional status of the Andamanese as "optimal". The biggest problems they have is the impact of Indian settlers and tourists who force them to leave the land, bring diseases and treat these people like animals in a safari park. Although the exact size of the tribe is not known, as some still live in isolation, there are approximately 400-500 Andamanese in existence.

Piraha Tribe

Although there are many small primitive tribes throughout Brazil and the Amazon, the Pirahã stands out because they have their own culture and language, unlike many other people on the planet. This tribe has some bizarre features. They do not have colors, numbers, past tenses, or subordinate clauses. While some might call this language simplistic, these features are the result of Pirahã values ​​that live only in the present moment. Also, because they live fully together, they have no need to ration and share property. A lot of unnecessary words are weeded out when you don't have any history, don't have to track anything, and only trust what you see. In general, Pirahã differ from Westerners in almost every way. They sincerely rejected all kinds of missionaries, like everyone modern technologies. They have no leader and do not need to exchange resources with other people or tribes. Even after hundreds of years of external contact, this group of 300 has remained largely unchanged since ancient times.

People of Takuu Atoll

The people of Takuu Atoll are Polynesian in origin, but are considered one of the isolated cultures, as they live in the Melanesia region instead of the Polynesian triangle. Takuu Atoll has a particularly distinct culture that some call the most traditionally Polynesian. This is because the Takuu tribe is extremely protective of their way of life and protected from suspicious strangers. They even enforced the ban on missionaries for 40 years. They still live in traditional thatched buildings. Unlike most of us, who spend most of our time at work, the Takuu dedicate 20-30 hours a week to singing and dancing. Surprisingly, they have over 1,000 songs that they repeat from memory. 400 members of the tribe are connected in one way or another, and they are controlled by one leader. Unfortunately, climate change could destroy the Takuu's way of life as the ocean will soon swallow their island. Rising sea levels have already polluted freshwater sources and flooded crops, and although the community has created dams, they are proving to be ineffective.

Spirit Tribe

The Dukha are the last group of nomadic herders of Mongolia with a history dating back to the Tang Dynasty. There are about 300 members of the tribe left, carefully guarding their cold homeland and believing in the sacred forest, where the ghosts of their ancestors live. Resources are scarce in this cold, mountainous region, so the Spirits rely on reindeer for milk, cheese, transportation, hunting, and tourism. However, due to the small size of the tribe, the Spirit's way of life is in jeopardy as the reindeer population is rapidly declining. There are many factors contributing to this decline, but the most important are over-hunting and predation. Making matters worse, the discovery of gold in northern Mongolia has brought a mining industry here that is ruining the local wildlife. With so many challenges, many young people are leaving their ancient roots behind and choosing to live in the city.

El Molo

The ancient El Molo tribe in Kenya is the smallest tribe in the country and also faces many threats. Due to the near-constant harassment of other groups, they have already isolated themselves on the remote shoreline of Lake Terkana, but still can't breathe easy. The tribe depends solely on fish and aquatic animals for survival and trade. Unfortunately, their lake evaporates 30 centimeters every year. This contributes to water pollution and a decrease in fish populations. Now it takes them a week to catch the same amount of fish they previously caught in a day. El Molo has to take risks and dive into crocodile-infested waters for the sake of the catch. There is fierce competition for fish and the El Molos are under threat of being invaded by warring neighboring tribes. On top of these environmental hazards, the tribe suffers cholera outbreaks every few years that wipe out most of the people. The average life expectancy of El Molo is only 30-45 years. There are approximately 200 of them, and anthropologists estimate that only 40 of them are "pure" El Molo.

Despite the fact that today almost every person has the opportunity to purchase the attributes of modern life, such as a mobile phone, with the money earned, there are still places on our planet where people live close to the primitive level in terms of development.

Africa is the place on Earth where today in the impenetrable jungle or desert you can meet creatures that are very reminiscent of us in the distant past. Scientists agree that it was from the African continent that Homo sapiens originated.

Africa is unique in itself. Not only common species of animals are concentrated here, but also endangered species. Due to its direct location on the equator, the mainland has a very hot climate, which is why the nature there is the most diverse. That is why there were conditions for the preservation of life in the form in which the wild tribes remained.

A striking example of such a tribe is the wild Himba tribe. They live in Namibia. Everything that civilization has achieved has passed by the Himba. There is no hint of modern life here. The tribe is engaged in cattle breeding. All the huts where the members of the tribe live are located around the pasture.

The beauty of the women of the tribe is determined by the presence of a large number of jewelry and the amount of clay applied to the skin. But the presence of clay is not only a ritual, but also fulfills a hygienic purpose. The scorching sun, the constant lack of water - these are just a few list of difficulties. The presence of clay allows the skin not to be subjected to thermal burns and the skin gives less water.

Women in the tribe are involved in all household affairs. They take care of livestock, build huts, raise children, and make ornaments. This is the main entertainment in the tribe.

Men in the tribe are given the role of husbands. Polygamy is accepted in the tribe if the husband is able to feed the family. Marriage is expensive. The cost of a wife reaches 45 cows. Fidelity of the wife is not a mandatory thing. A child born from another father will remain in the family.

Tourist guides often turn to the tribe for tours. For this, savages receive souvenirs and money, which are then exchanged for things.

In the northwest of Mexico, there is another tribe that civilization has bypassed. It is called Tarahyumara. They are also called "beer people". The name stuck to them due to their ritual of drinking maize beer. Beating the drums, they drink beer, which is mixed with narcotic herbs. True, there is another translation option: “running soles” or “those with light legs.” And he is also well deserved, but more on that later.

They paint their bodies in bright colors. You can imagine how it looks when you realize that the tribe has 60 thousand people.

From the 17th century, savages learned to cultivate the land and began to grow cereals. Prior to this, the tribe ate roots and herbs.

Video: The Tarahumara - A Hidden Tribe of Superathletes Born to Run. The Indians of this tribe are considered the best runners, but not in speed, but in endurance. They can run 170 km without any problems. do not stop. There is a recorded case of an Indian running about 600 miles in five days.

Palawan is an island in the Philippine archipelago. The Taut Batu tribe lives in the mountains there. These are the people of the mountain caves. They live in caves and grottoes. The tribe has existed since the 11th century and human achievements are not known to them. By the way, here is the underground river Puerto Princesa.

When the monsoon rains do not come, and they can go on for half a year, the tribe is engaged in growing potatoes and rice. This is the only time when members of the tribe get out of the caves. When it starts to rain again, the whole tribe climbs into their grottoes and just sleeps, waking up only to eat.

Video: Philippines, Palawan, Tau't Batu or "People of the Rocks".

The list of tribes could go on and on. But it doesn't matter anymore. You just have to remember that somewhere on Earth there are places where life has stopped in its development, allowing others to develop further. Looking at the wild tribes, at their customs, dances, rituals, you understand that they do not want to change anything. They lived like this for thousands of years before they were discovered and, apparently, plan to continue to exist for as long.

Movies, a small selection.

Hunting for survival (Kill to survive) / Kill To Survive. (From the series: In Search of the Hunter Tribes)

There are also series: Keepers of Traditions; Sharp-toothed nomads; Hunting in the Kalahari;

An even more interesting series about the life of people in harmony with nature is Human Planet.

Also, there is such an interesting program as the Magic of Adventure. Moderator: Sergey Yastrzhembsky.

For example, one of the series. Adventure Magic: The Man in the Tree.

They don't know what a car, electricity, a hamburger and the United Nations are. They get their food by hunting and fishing, they believe that the gods send rain, they do not know how to write and read. They may die from catching a cold or the flu. They are a godsend for anthropologists and evolutionists, but they are dying out. They are wild tribes that have preserved the way of life of their ancestors and avoid contact with the modern world.

Sometimes the meeting happens by chance, and sometimes scientists are specifically looking for them. For example, on Thursday, May 29, in the Amazon jungle near the Brazilian-Peruvian border, several huts were found surrounded by people with bows who tried to shoot at the plane with the expedition. In this case, specialists from the Peruvian Center for Indian Tribes flew around the jungle in search of savage settlements.

Although recently, scientists rarely describe new tribes: most of them have already been discovered, and there are almost no unexplored places on Earth where they could exist.

Wild tribes live in South America, Africa, Australia and Asia. According to rough estimates, there are about a hundred tribes on Earth that do not or rarely come into contact with the outside world. Many of them prefer to avoid interaction with civilization by any means, so it is quite difficult to keep an accurate record of the number of such tribes. On the other hand, tribes that willingly communicate with modern people gradually disappear or lose their identity. Their representatives gradually assimilate our way of life or even go to live "in the big world."

Another obstacle that prevents the full study of tribes is their immune system. "Modern savages" have long developed in isolation from the rest of the world. The most common diseases for most people, such as a runny nose or flu, can be fatal for them. In the body of savages there are no antibodies against many common infections. When the flu virus strikes a person from Paris or Mexico City, his immune system immediately recognizes the "attacker" because it has already met him before. Even if a person has never had the flu, immune cells "trained" for this virus enter his body from his mother. The savage is practically defenseless against the virus. As long as his body can develop an adequate "response", the virus may well kill him.

But recently the tribes have been forced to change their habitual habitats. The development of new territories by modern man and the deforestation where savages live, force them to found new settlements. In the event that they are close to the settlements of other tribes, conflicts may arise between their representatives. And again, cross-contamination with diseases typical of each tribe cannot be ruled out. Not all tribes were able to survive when faced with civilization. But some manage to maintain their numbers at a constant level and not succumb to the temptations of the "big world".

Be that as it may, anthropologists have managed to study the way of life of some tribes. Knowledge about their social structure, language, tools, creativity and beliefs helps scientists to better understand how human development went. In fact, each such tribe is a model ancient world, representing possible options for the evolution of culture and thinking of people.

Piraha

In the Brazilian jungle, in the valley of the Meiki River, a tribe of firah lives. There are about two hundred people in the tribe, they exist thanks to hunting and gathering and actively resist the introduction into the "society". Pirahã is distinguished by unique features of the language. First, there are no words for color shades. Secondly, the Pirahã language lacks the grammatical constructions necessary for the formation of indirect speech. Thirdly, Pirahã people do not know the numerals and the words "more", "several", "all" and "each".

One word, but pronounced with different intonation, serves to denote the numbers "one" and "two". It can also mean "about one" and "not very many". Due to the lack of words for numbers, Pirahãs cannot count and cannot solve simple mathematical problems. They are unable to estimate the number of objects if there are more than three. At the same time, there are no signs of a decrease in intelligence in the Piraha. According to linguists and psychologists, their thinking is artificially limited by the peculiarities of the language.

Pirahãs have no creation myths, and a strict taboo forbids them from talking about things that are not part of their own experience. Despite this, Pirahas are quite sociable and capable of organized activities in small groups.

Sinta larga

The Sinta Larga tribe also lives in Brazil. Once the number of the tribe exceeded five thousand people, but now it has decreased to one and a half thousand. The minimum social unit of the Sinta Larga is the family: a man, several of his wives and their children. They can move freely from one settlement to another, but more often establish their own home. Sinta larga are engaged in hunting, fishing and farming. When the land where their house stands becomes less fertile or game leaves the forests, the Sinta spotted seals move out and look for a new site for the house.

Each Sinta Larga has several names. One - "real name" - each member of the tribe keeps a secret, only the closest relatives know it. During the life of the Sinta Larga, they receive several more names, depending on their individual characteristics or important events that happened to them. The Sinta Larga society is patriarchal, male polygamy is widespread in it.

Sinta larga have suffered greatly due to contact with the outside world. In the jungle where the tribe lives, many rubber trees grow. Rubber collectors systematically exterminated the Indians, claiming that they interfere with their work. Later, diamond deposits were discovered in the territory where the tribe lived, and several thousand miners from all over the world rushed to develop the land of Sinta Larga, which is illegal. The members of the tribe themselves also tried to mine diamonds. Conflicts often arose between savages and diamond lovers. In 2004, 29 miners were killed by Sinta Larga people. After that, the government allocated $810,000 to the tribe in exchange for a promise to close the mines, allow them to set up police cordons near them, and not engage in stone mining on their own.

Tribes of the Nicobar and Andaman Islands

The group of Nicobar and Andaman Islands is located 1400 kilometers from the coast of India. Six primitive tribes lived in complete isolation on the outlying islands: the great Andamanese, the Onge, the Jarawa, the Shompens, the Sentinelese, and the Negrito. After the devastating 2004 tsunami, many feared that the tribes had disappeared forever. However, later it turned out that most of them, to the great joy of anthropologists, escaped.

The tribes of the Nicobar and Andaman Islands are in the Stone Age in their development. Representatives of one of them - Negrito - are considered the most ancient inhabitants of the planet, preserved to this day. The average height of a Negrito is about 150 centimeters, and even Marco Polo wrote about them as "cannibals with dog muzzles."

Korubo

Cannibalism is a fairly common practice among primitive tribes. And although most of them prefer to find other sources of food, some have retained this tradition. For example, Korubo living in the western part of the Amazon Valley. The Korubo are an extremely aggressive tribe. Hunting and raiding neighboring settlements are their main means of subsistence. The korubo's weapons are heavy clubs and poison darts. Korubo do not practice religious rites, but they have a widespread practice of killing their own children. Korubo women have equal rights with men.

Cannibals from Papua New Guinea

The most famous cannibals are perhaps the tribes of Papua New Guinea and Borneo. Cannibals of Borneo are cruel and promiscuous: they eat both their enemies and tourists or old people from their tribe. The last surge of cannibalism was noted in Borneo at the end of the past - the beginning of this century. This happened when the Indonesian government tried to colonize some areas of the island.

In New Guinea, especially in its eastern part, cases of cannibalism are observed much less frequently. Of the primitive tribes living there, only three - the Yali, the Vanuatu and the Carafai - still practice cannibalism. The most cruel is the Carafai tribe, while the Yali and Vanuatu eat someone on rare solemn occasions or out of necessity. The Yalis are also famous for their festival of death, when the men and women of the tribe paint themselves in the form of skeletons and try to appease Death. Previously, for fidelity, they killed the shaman, whose brain was eaten by the leader of the tribe.

Emergency ration

The dilemma of primitive tribes is that attempts to study them often lead to their destruction. Anthropologists and travelers alike find it hard to give up the prospect of going back to the Stone Age. In addition, the habitat modern people is constantly expanding. Primitive tribes managed to carry their way of life through many millennia, however, it seems that in the end, savages will join the list of those who could not stand the meeting with modern man.