Modern society cannot exist in an isolated world. Trade, awareness, scientific innovation and other factors require establishing contacts with the outside world. But there were such people who live in their own world, isolated from the environment. They not only refused the benefits and conveniences of modern civilization, but also avoid contact with people in every possible way.
A tribe that lives on North Sentinel Island. Formally, the island belongs to the Hindu territories. By the name of the island, it is customary to call savages, because no one knows what they call themselves. Well, this is actually almost all the information that is known about the Sentinels themselves. Even the exact population size is not known.
But why is there so little information about them and how did they manage to hide for so long? It's all about the aggressive behavior of the natives. They meet approaching helicopters and boats with bows and arrows, the bloodthirsty tribe immediately kills random guests. The local authorities are afraid of the Sentinelese like fire, so they try not to poke their nose into their possessions.
The people were discovered in 1970 by archaeologists in southeastern Papua. Like thousands of years ago, they use stone tools, eat almost everything that moves and live in trees.
How did they manage to stay isolated for so long?
Korowai live in the most impenetrable forests. The census service in 2010 tried to count the number of Korowais, so they got to the settlements through the jungle and thickets for more than two weeks. It is believed that the Korowai tribe are cannibals. It is possible that they simply ate their discoverers.
The loneliest man in the world lives in the dense forests of Brazil. He builds huts out of palm trees and digs rectangular pits one and a half meters deep. No one knows why he needs these holes. With any attempt to make contact with him, he leaves the hut in which he lived, looks for a new place and rebuilds a new hut with a rectangular pit. He has been leading this lifestyle for at least 15 years. Scientists believe that he is the only representative of a certain extinct tribe.
Brazil once passed a law on the forced relocation of tribes. Those who did not want to obey the new law were simply exterminated. Perhaps such a fate befell the tribe of this lonely man.
Old Believers- The Lykov family. This is how the family called themselves, found in 1978 on the territory of harsh and inhospitable Siberia. The first meeting with a man horrified them, because they had no idea about the existence of other people. The Lykovs lived in a log hut, in everyday life they used everything home-made: both dishes and clothes.
As it turned out, this is not the only hermit family. In 1990, a family was discovered in Siberia that led an isolated lifestyle.
Back in the 17th century, when the church split, several Old Believer families left their homes and settled in the remote lands of Siberia in order to avoid reprisals.
Mashko-Piro- an isolated tribe that aggressively resisted making contact. Any attempt at dialogue was met with a barrage of arrows and stones. To protect tourists, the Peruvian authorities forbade approaching the Mashko-Piro area.
However, the inhabitants of the tribe themselves decided to reveal their existence and began to appear in open areas. Why would this wild tribe decide to make contact? As it turned out, they were interested in pots and machetes, so necessary in the economy.
Pintubi. In 1984, in the Australian desert, the Pintubi people met for the first time a white man. Seeing white people, the Pintubi decided that they were evil spirits - and the first meeting was, to put it mildly, not friendly. But later, having decided that the "pink man" does not pose a threat and can even be useful, they relented. The concealment of the Pintubi tribe from the outside world is due to the nomadic way of life.
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I wonder if our lives would be much calmer and less nervous and hectic without all the modern technological advances? Probably yes, but more comfortable - hardly. Now imagine that on our planet in the 21st century, tribes live calmly, which easily do without all this.
1. Yarava
This tribe lives in the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean. It is believed that the age of Yarava is from 50 to 55 thousand years. They migrated there from Africa and now there are about 400 of them left. The Yarawa live in nomadic groups of 50 people, hunt with bows and arrows, fish in coral reefs and collect fruits and honey. In the 1990s, the Indian government wanted to provide them with more modern living conditions, but the Yarawa refused.
2. Yanomami
The Yanomami lead their usual ancient way of life on the border between Brazil and Venezuela: 22,000 live on the Brazilian side and 16,000 on the Venezuelan side. Some of them have mastered metalworking and weaving, but the rest prefer not to contact the outside world, which threatens to disrupt their centuries-old life. They are excellent healers and even know how to fish with plant poisons.
3. Nomole
About 600-800 representatives of this tribe live in the tropical forests of Peru, and only since about 2015 did they begin to show up and carefully contact civilization, not always successfully, I must say. They call themselves "nomole", which means "brothers and sisters". It is believed that the people of Nomole do not have the concept of good and evil in our understanding, and if they want something, they will not hesitate to kill an opponent in order to take possession of his thing.
4. Ava Guaya
The first contact with Ava Guaya occurred in 1989, but it is unlikely that civilization has made them happier, since deforestation actually means the disappearance of this semi-nomadic Brazilian tribe, of which there are no more than 350-450 people. They survive by hunting, live in small family groups, have many pets (parrots, monkeys, owls, agouti hares) and have their own names, naming themselves after their favorite forest animal.
5. Sentinelese
If other tribes somehow make contact with the outside world, then the inhabitants of the North Sentinel Island (Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal) are not particularly friendly. Firstly, they are supposedly cannibals, and secondly, they simply kill everyone who comes into their territory. In 2004, after the tsunami, many people suffered on neighboring islands. When anthropologists flew over North Sentinel Island to check on its strange inhabitants, a group of natives came out of the forest and threateningly waved stones and bows and arrows in their direction.
6. Huaorani, Tagaeri and Taromenane
All three tribes live in Ecuador. The Huaorani had the misfortune of living in an oil-rich area, so most of them were resettled in the 1950s, while the Tagaeri and Taromenane broke away from the main Huaorani group in the 1970s and moved into the rainforest to continue their nomadic, ancient lifestyle. . These tribes are rather unfriendly and vengeful, therefore, special contacts were not established with them.
7. Kawahiva
The remaining representatives of the Brazilian tribe Kawahiwa are mostly nomads. They do not like to interact with humans and simply try to survive by hunting, fishing and occasional farming. The Kawahivas are endangered due to illegal logging. In addition, many of them died after communicating with civilization, picking up measles from people. According to conservative estimates, there are now no more than 25-50 people left.
8. Hadza
The Hadza are one of the last tribes of hunter-gatherers (about 1300 people) living in Africa near the equator near Lake Eyasi in Tanzania. They still live in the same place for the last 1.9 million years. Only 300-400 Hadza continue to live the old fashioned way and even officially reclaimed part of their land in 2011. Their way of life is based on the fact that everything is shared, and property and food should always be shared.
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 retained 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 who lead a life according to old customs in our country. So the Lykov family lived in Siberia for a long time. 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 the modern world on Earth, every year there are fewer and fewer secluded places where the foot of civilization has not set foot. She comes everywhere. And wild tribes are often forced to change the places of their settlements. Those of them that make contact with the civilized world are gradually disappearing. They, either dissolve in modern society, or simply die out.
The thing is, centuries of life in complete isolation did not allow the immune system of these people to develop properly. Their body has not learned to produce antibodies that can resist the most common infections. A common cold can be fatal for them.
Nevertheless, anthropological scientists continue to study, as far as possible, wild tribes. After all, each of them is nothing but a model of the ancient world. A kind of possible version of human evolution.
Piahu Indians
The way of life of wild tribes, in general, fits into the framework of our understanding of primitive people. They live mostly in polygamous families. They are engaged in hunting and gathering. But the way of thinking and the language of some of them is able to amaze any civilized imagination.
Once, the famous anthropologist, linguist and preacher Daniel Everett went to the Amazonian tribe of Piraha for scientific and missionary purposes. First of all, he was struck by the language of the Indians. It had only three vowels and seven consonants. They had no idea about singular and plural. In their language there were no numerals at all. And why would they need them, if the Piraha did not even have a clue about more and less. It also turned out that the people of this tribe live outside of all time. He was alien to such concepts as the present, past and future. In general, the polyglot Everett had a very difficult time learning the language of Pirahu.
Everett's missionary mission was in for a big embarrassment. First, the savages asked the preacher if he personally knew Jesus. And when they found out that they had not been, they immediately lost all interest in the Gospel. And when Everett told them that God himself created man, they completely fell into complete bewilderment. This bewilderment could be translated something like this: “What are you? Such a fool is not how people are made?
As a result, after visiting this tribe, the unfortunate Everett, according to him, almost turned from a convinced Christian into a complete one.
Cannibalism still exists
Some wild tribes also have cannibalism. Now cannibalism among savages is not as common as about a hundred years ago, but still cases of eating their own kind are not rare. The most successful in this business are the savages of the island of Borneo, they are famous for their cruelty and promiscuity. These cannibals eat with pleasure, and tourists. Although the last outbreak of kakkibalizma dates back to the beginning of the last century. now this phenomenon among savage tribes is episodic.
But in general, according to scientists, the fate of wild tribes on Earth has already been decided. In just a few decades, they will finally disappear.
Surprisingly, in our age of atomic energy, laser guns and the exploration of Pluto, there are still primitive people who are almost unaware of the outside world. Throughout the earth, except for Europe, a huge number of such tribes are scattered. Some live in complete isolation, perhaps not even knowing about the existence of other "bipeds". Others know and see more, but are in no hurry to make contact. And still others are ready to kill any stranger.
What about us civilized people? Trying to "make friends" with them? Should you watch them carefully? Completely ignore?
Just in these days, disputes resumed when the authorities of Peru decided to make contact with one of the lost tribes. Aboriginal defenders are strongly against it, because after contact they can die from diseases to which they have no immunity: it is not known whether they will agree to medical care.
Let's see who we are talking about, and what other tribes, infinitely far from civilization, are found in the modern world.
1. Brazil
It is in this country that most non-contact tribes live. In just 2 years, from 2005 to 2007, their confirmed number increased by 70% at once (from 40 to 67), and today more than 80 are already on the lists of the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI).
There are extremely small tribes, only 20-30 people each, others can number as many as 1.5 thousand. At the same time, all together they make up less than 1% of the population of Brazil, but the "original lands" assigned to them are 13% of the country's territory (green spots on the map). 
To search for and account for isolated tribes, authorities periodically fly around the dense forests of the Amazon. So in 2008, hitherto unknown savages were seen near the border with Peru. First, anthropologists noticed from the plane their huts, similar to elongated tents, as well as half-naked women and children. 
But during a repeated flight a few hours later, men with spears and bows, painted red from head to toe, and the same warlike woman, all black, appeared at the same place. They probably mistook the plane for an evil bird spirit. 
Since then, the tribe has remained unexplored. Scientists only guess that it is very numerous and prosperous. The photo shows that people are generally healthy and well-fed, their baskets are full of roots and fruits, from the plane they even noticed something like orchards. It is possible that this people has existed for 10,000 years and since then has kept primitive. 
2. Peru
But the very tribe with which the Peruvian authorities want to make contact is the Mashko-Piro Indians, who also live in the wilderness of the Amazonian forests in the territory of the Manu National Park in the southeast of the country. Previously, they always rejected strangers, but in recent years they have often come out of the thicket into the "outside world." In 2014 alone, they were spotted more than 100 times in populated areas, especially along the banks of the river, from where they pointed to passers-by. 
“It seems that they themselves are making contact, and we cannot pretend that we do not notice this. They also have the right to do so,” the government says. They emphasize that in no case will the tribe be forced either to contact or to change their lifestyle. 
Officially, Peruvian law forbids contact with lost tribes, of which there are at least a dozen in the country. But many have already managed to “talk” with Mashko-Piro, from ordinary tourists to Christian missionaries, who shared clothes and food with them. Maybe also because there is no punishment for violating the ban. 
True, not all contacts were peaceful. In May 2015, mashko-piros came to one of the local villages and, having met the inhabitants, attacked them. One guy was killed on the spot, pierced by an arrow. In 2011, members of the tribe killed another local and wounded a national park ranger with arrows. Authorities hope the contact will help prevent future deaths.
This is probably the only civilized Indian Mashko-Piro. As a child, local hunters stumbled upon him in the jungle and took him with them. Since then, he has been named Alberto Flores. 
3. Andaman Islands (India)
A tiny island of this archipelago in the Bay of Bengal between India and Myanmar is inhabited by extremely hostile to the outside world, the Sentinelese. Most likely, these are the direct descendants of the first Africans who ventured to leave the black continent about 60,000 years ago. Since then, this small tribe has been engaged in hunting, fishing and gathering. How they make fire is unknown. 
Their language is not identified, but judging by its striking difference from all other Andamanese dialects, these people did not come into contact with anyone for thousands of years. The size of their community (or scattered groups) is also not established: presumably, from 40 to 500 people. 
The Sentinelese are typical Negritos, as ethnologists call them: rather short people with very dark, almost black skin and short, fine curls of hair. Their main weapons are spears and bows with different types of arrows. Observations have shown that they accurately hit the target of human growth from a distance of 10 meters. Any outsiders are considered enemies by the tribe. In 2006, they killed two fishermen who were sleeping peacefully in a boat that accidentally washed up on their shore, and then met a search helicopter with a hail of arrows. 
There were only a few "peaceful" contacts with the Sentinelese in the 1960s. Once, coconuts were left on the shore for them to see if they would plant them or eat them. - Ate. Another time they "gave" live pigs - the savages immediately killed them and ... buried them. The only thing that seemed useful to them was red buckets, as they were hurried to carry them deep into the island. And exactly the same green buckets were not touched. 
But you know what is the strangest and most inexplicable thing? Despite their primitiveness and extremely primitive shelters, the Sentinelese generally survived the terrible earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004. But along the entire coast of Asia, almost 300 thousand people died then, which made this natural disaster the deadliest in modern history! 
4. Papua New Guinea
The vast island of New Guinea in Oceania holds many unexplored secrets. Its hard-to-reach mountainous regions, covered with dense forests, only seem uninhabited - in fact, this is the home of many non-contact tribes. Due to the peculiarities of the landscape, they are hidden not only from civilization, but also from each other: it happens that there are only a few kilometers between two villages, but they are unaware of the neighborhood. 
The tribes live in such isolation that each has its own customs and its own language. Just think - linguists distinguish about 650 Papuan languages, and in total more than 800 languages are spoken in this country! 
The same differences may be in their culture and way of life. Some tribes turn out to be relatively peaceful and generally friendly, like a nation funny to our ears. the fuck, which Europeans learned about only in 1935. 
But the most sinister rumors circulate about others. There were cases when members of expeditions specially equipped to search for Papuan savages disappeared without a trace. This is how one of the richest American family members, Michael Rockefeller, disappeared in 1961. He separated from the group and is suspected to have been caught and eaten. 
5. Africa
At the junction of the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan, several nationalities live, numbering about 200 thousand people, who are collectively called Surma. They raise cattle, but do not roam and share a common culture with very cruel and strange traditions. 
Young men, for example, for the sake of winning brides, arrange stick fights, which can result in serious injuries and even death. And the girls, decorating themselves for a future wedding, remove their lower teeth, pierce their lip and stretch it so that a special plate fits there. The larger it is, the more cattle will be given for the bride, so that the most desperate beauties manage to squeeze in a 40-centimeter dish! 
True, in recent years, the youth of these tribes have begun to learn something about the outside world, and more and more Surma girls are now refusing such a “beauty” ritual. However, women and men continue to adorn themselves with curly scars, which they are very proud of. 
In general, the acquaintance of these peoples with civilization is very uneven: for example, they remain illiterate, but quickly mastered the AK-47 assault rifles that came to them during the civil war in Sudan. 
And one more interesting detail. The first people from the outside world to come into contact with Surma in the 1980s were not Africans, but a group of Russian doctors. The natives then got scared, mistaking them for the walking dead - after all, they had never seen white skin before!
