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 employed 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.
It is believed that there are no less than a hundred "isolated tribes" in the world, still living in the farthest corners of the world. The members of these tribes, who have preserved traditions long left behind by the rest of the world, provide anthropologists with an excellent opportunity to study in detail the development of various cultures over many centuries.
10. The Surma People
The Ethiopian Surma tribe avoided contact with the Western world for many years. However, they are quite known to the world for their huge plates that they put on their lips. However, they did not want to hear about any government. While colonization, world wars and the struggle for independence were in full swing around them, the people of Surma lived in groups of several hundred people each, and continued to engage in their modest cattle ranching.
The first people who managed to establish contact with the people of Surma were several Russian doctors. They met the tribe in 1980. Due to the fact that the doctors were white-skinned, the members of the tribe at first thought they were the living dead. One of the few pieces of equipment that members of the Surma people have adapted into their lives is the AK-47, which they use to protect their livestock.
Source 9Peruvian tribe discovered by tourists
Wandering in the jungles of Peru, a group of tourists suddenly encountered members of an unknown tribe. The whole incident was filmed: the tribe tried to communicate with the tourists, but because the members of the tribe did not know either Spanish or English, they soon despaired of making contact and left the puzzled tourists where they found them.
After studying the footage recorded by the tourists, the Peruvian authorities soon realized that the group of tourists had encountered one of the few tribes that had not yet been discovered by anthropologists. Scientists knew about their existence and unsuccessfully searched for them for many years, and tourists found them without even looking.
8. Single Brazilian
Slate magazine called him "the most isolated person on the planet." Somewhere in the thickets of the Amazon there is a tribe consisting of only one person. Like Bigfoot, this mysterious man disappears just as scientists are about to discover him.
Why is he so popular, and why won't he be left alone? It turns out that according to scientists, he is the last representative of an isolated Amazon tribe. He is the only person in the world who has preserved the customs and language of his people. Communication with him will be tantamount to finding a treasure trove of information, part of which is the answer to the question of how he managed to live alone for so many decades.
7. Tribe Ramapo (Ramapough Mountain Indians or The Jackson Whites)
During the 1700s, European settlers completed their colonization of the east coast of North America. By this point, every tribe between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River has been added to the catalog of known peoples. As it turned out, all but one were listed in the catalogue.
In the 1790s, a previously unknown tribe of Indians emerged from the forest just 56 kilometers from New York. They somehow managed to avoid contact with the settlers, despite some of the biggest battles such as the Seven Years' War and the Revolutionary War actually taking place in their backyards. They became known as "Jackson Whites" because of their fair skin color and because they were thought to be descended from "Jacks" (slang for the British).
6. Vietnamese Ruk tribe (Vietnamese Ruc)
During the Vietnam War, unprecedented bombardments of regions isolated at that time took place. After one particularly heavy American bombing raid, North Vietnamese soldiers were shocked to see a group of tribal members emerge from the jungle.
This was the first contact of the Ruk tribe with people with advanced technology. Because their jungle home was so badly damaged, they decided to stay in present-day Vietnam and not return to their traditional homes. However, the values and traditions of the tribe, passed down from generation to generation for many centuries, did not please the Vietnamese government, which led to mutual hostility.
5. The Last of the Native Americans
In 1911, the last Native American untouched by civilization calmly walked out of the forest in California, in full tribal attire - and was promptly arrested by the shocked police. His name was Ishi and he was a member of the Yahia tribe.
After interrogation by the police, who were able to locate a local college interpreter, it was revealed that Ishi was the only survivor of his tribe after his tribe had been massacred by settlers three years earlier. After he tried to survive alone, using only the gifts of nature, he finally decided to turn to other people for help.
Ishi was taken in by a researcher at Berkeley University. There, Ishi told the teaching staff all the secrets of his tribal life, and showed them many survival techniques, using only what nature gave. Many of these techniques were either long forgotten or unknown to scientists at all.
4 Brazilian Tribes
The Brazilian government has been trying to figure out how many people live in isolated areas of the Amazonian lowland in order to put them on the population register. Therefore, a government aircraft equipped with photographic equipment regularly flew over the jungle, trying to detect and count the people below it. Tireless flights really gave a result, albeit a very unexpected one.
In 2007, an aircraft on a routine low flight to take photographs was unexpectedly hit by a rain of arrows from a previously unknown tribe firing bows at the aircraft. Then, in 2011, satellite scans picked up a few specks in a corner of the jungle that wasn't even expected to contain humans: as it turns out, the specks were humans after all.
3. Tribes of New Guinea
Somewhere in New Guinea, there are likely to be dozens of languages, cultures and tribal customs that are still unknown to modern man. However, due to the fact that this area is almost unexplored, and also because the nature and intentions of these tribes are uncertain, with often slipping reports of cannibalism, the wild part of New Guinea is very rarely explored. Despite the fact that new tribes are often discovered, many expeditions aimed at tracking down such tribes never reach them, or sometimes simply disappear.
For example, in 1961, Michael Rockefeller set out to find some of the lost tribes. Rockefeller, the American heir to one of the greatest fortunes in the world, was separated from his group and apparently captured and eaten by members of the flame.
2. The Pintupi Nine
In 1984, an unknown group of Aboriginal people was discovered near a settlement in Western Australia. After they fled, the Pinupi Nine, as they were later called, were hunted down by those who spoke their language and told them that there was a place where water ran from pipes and there was always an ample supply of food. Most of them decided to stay in the modern city, a few of them became artists working in the style of traditional art. However, one out of nine, named Yari Yari, returned to the Gibson Desert, where he lives to this day.
1 The Sentinelese
The Sentinelese are a tribe of about 250 people who live on North Sentinel Island, between India and Thailand. Almost nothing is known about this tribe, because as soon as the Sentinelese see that someone has sailed to them, they meet the visitor with a hail of arrows.
A few peaceful encounters with this tribe in 1960 have given us practically everything we know about their culture. The coconuts brought to the island as gifts were eaten, not planted. Live pigs were shot with arrows and buried without being eaten. The most popular items among the Sentinelese were red buckets, which were quickly taken apart by members of the tribe - however, exactly the same green buckets remained in place.
Anyone who wanted to land on their island had to write their will first. The National Geographic team was forced to turn around after the team leader was shot in the thigh and two local guides were killed.
The Sentinelese have earned a reputation for their ability to survive natural disasters - unlike many modern people who live in similar conditions. For example, this coastal tribe successfully escaped the effects of the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which wreaked havoc and terror in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
On the banks of the Meikhi River lives a wild tribe of Pirahu, numbering about three hundred people. The natives survive by hunting and gathering. A feature of this tribe is their unique language: it does not have words denoting shades of colors, there is no indirect speech, and another interesting fact is that it does not have numeral words (the Indians count - one, two and many). They have no legends about the creation of the world, no calendar, but for all this, the Pirahu people did not have the qualities of reduced intelligence.
Video: Amazon code. In the dense jungle of the Amazon River lives a wild tribe of firah. Christian missionary Daniel Everett came to them to carry the word of God, but as a result of acquaintance with their culture he became an atheist. But much more interesting than this discovery is related to the language of the Pirah tribe.
Another wild tribe of Brazil is also known - Sinta Larga, numbering about one and a half thousand people. Previously, this tribe lived in the rubber jungle, however, due to their cutting down, the Sinta Larga became a nomadic tribe. The Indians are engaged in fishing, hunting and farming. There is a patriarchy in the tribe, i.e. A man can have multiple wives. Also, throughout his life, a Sinta larga man receives several names, depending on individual characteristics or certain events in his life, but there is one special name that is kept secret and only the closest know it.
And in the western part of the Amazon River Valley lives a very aggressive Korubo tribe. The main occupation of the Indians of this tribe is hunting and raids on neighboring settlements. Moreover, both men and women, armed with poisoned darts and clubs, participate in the raids. There is evidence that cases of cannibalism occur in the Korubo tribe.
Video: Leonid Kruglov: GEO: Unknown World: Earth. Secrets of the new world. "Great Amazon River". "The Korubo Incident".
All these tribes are a unique find for anthropologists and evolutionists. By studying their way of life and culture, language, beliefs, one can better understand all the stages of human development. And it is very important to preserve this heritage of history in its original form. In Brazil, a special government organization (National Indian Fund) has been created to deal with the affairs of such tribes. The main task of this organization is to protect these tribes from any interference of modern civilization.
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Film: Amazonia / IMAX - Amazon HD.
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The main part of the peoples of Africa includes groups consisting of several thousand, and sometimes hundreds of people, but at the same time - does not exceed 10% of the total population of this continent. As a rule, such small ethnic groups are the wildest tribes.
It is to this group that, for example, the Mursi tribe belongs.
Ethiopian tribe Mursi - the most aggressive ethnic group
Ethiopia is the oldest country in the world. It is Ethiopia that is considered the progenitor of mankind, it is here that the remains of our ancestor, modestly named Lucy, were found.
More than 80 ethnic groups live in the country.
Living in southwestern Ethiopia, on the border with Kenya and Sudan, settled in the Mago Park, the Mursi tribe is distinguished by unusually harsh customs. They, by right, can be nominated for the title of the most aggressive ethnic group.
Prone to frequent alcohol consumption and uncontrolled use of weapons. In everyday life, the main weapon of the men of the tribe is the Kalashnikov assault rifle, which they buy in Sudan.
In fights, they can often beat each other almost to death, trying to prove their dominance in the tribe.
Scientists attribute this tribe to a mutated Negroid race, with distinctive features in the form of short stature, wide bones and crooked legs, low and strongly compressed foreheads, flattened noses and pumped up short necks.
Mursi female bodies often look flabby and sickly, bellies and breasts drooping, and backs stooped. There is practically no hair, which was often hidden under intricate headdresses of a very fantasy appearance, using as a material everything that can be picked up or caught nearby: rough skins, branches, dried fruits, marsh clams, someone's tails, dead insects, and even an incomprehensible smelly fall.
The most famous feature of the Mursi tribe is the tradition of inserting plates into the lips of girls.
In the more public, in contact with civilization, Mursi, you can not always see all these characteristic attributes, but the exotic look of their lower lip is the calling card of the tribe.
Plates are made of wood or clay in different sizes, the shape can be round or trapezoidal, sometimes with a hole in the middle. For beauty, the plates are covered with a pattern.
The lower lip is cut in childhood, pieces of wood are inserted there, gradually increasing their diameter.
Mursi girls start wearing plates at the age of 20, six months before marriage. The lower lip is pierced and a small disk is inserted into it, after the lip is stretched, the disk is replaced with a larger one and so on until the desired diameter is reached (up to 30 centimeters !!).
The size of the plate matters: the larger the diameter, the more the girl is valued and the more cattle the groom will pay for her. Girls must wear these plates at all times except during bedtime and meals, and they can also take them out if there are no males of the tribe nearby.
When the plate is pulled out, the lip droops like a long round cord. Almost all Mursi have no front teeth, the tongue is cracked to the point of blood.
The second strange and frightening adornment of Mursi women is the monista, which are recruited from human finger phalanges (nek). One person has only 28 of these bones in their hands. Each necklace usually consists of phalanxes of five or six tassels, some lovers of "jewelry" monist wrap their neck in several rows
It glistens with fat and emits a sweetish rotting smell of melted human fat, every bone is rubbed daily. The source for the beads never runs out: the priestess of the tribe is ready to deprive the hands of a man who has violated the laws for almost every offense.
It is customary for this tribe to do scarification (scarring).
Men can afford to be scarred only after the first murder of one of their enemies or ill-wishers. If they kill a man, they adorn the right hand, if a woman, then the left.
Their religion, animism, deserves a longer and more shocking story.
Short: women are priestesses of death so they daily give their husbands drugs and poisons.
Antidotes are distributed by the High Priestess, but sometimes salvation does not come to everyone. In such cases, a white cross is drawn on the widow's plate, and she becomes a very respected member of the tribe, who is not eaten after death, but buried in the trunks of special ritual trees. Honor is given to such priestesses because of the fulfillment of the main mission - the will of the God of Death Yamda, which they were able to fulfill by destroying the physical body and freeing the highest spiritual Essence from their man.
The rest of the dead are waiting for the collective eating of the whole tribe. Soft fabrics are boiled in a cauldron, bones are used for jewelry-amulets and thrown on swamps to mark dangerous places.
What seems very wild for a European, for Mursi is commonplace and tradition.
Bushmen tribe
The African Bushmen are the most ancient representatives of the human race. And this is not an assumption at all, but a scientifically proven fact. Who are these ancient people?
The Bushmen are a group of hunting tribes in South Africa. Now these are the remains of a large ancient African population. Bushmen are notable for their short stature, wide cheekbones, narrow slit eyes and much swollen eyelids. It is difficult to determine the true color of their skin, because in the Kalahari they are not allowed to waste water on washing. But you can see that they are much lighter than their neighbors. Their skin tone is slightly yellowish, which is more typical for South Asians.
Young bushwomen are considered the most beautiful among the female population of Africa.
But as soon as they reach puberty and become mothers, these beauties are simply unrecognizable. Bushmen women have overdeveloped hips and buttocks, and their belly is constantly swollen. This is a consequence of malnutrition.
To distinguish a pregnant Bushwoman from other women of the tribe, she is coated with ash or ocher, since this is very difficult to do in appearance. Bushmen men already by the age of 35 become like octogenarians, due to the fact that their skin sags and the body is covered with deep wrinkles.
Life in the Kalahari is very harsh, but even here there are laws and regulations. The most important wealth in the desert is water. There are old people in the tribe who know how to find water. In the place that they indicate, the representatives of the tribe either dig wells or bring water out with the help of plant stems.
Each Bushman tribe has a secret well, which is carefully filled with stones or covered with sand. During the dry season, the Bushmen dig a hole at the bottom of a dried-up well, take a stem of a plant, suck water through it, taking it into their mouths, and then spit it out into the shell of an ostrich egg.
The South African Bushmen tribe is the only people on Earth whose men have permanent erections. This phenomenon does not cause any discomfort or inconvenience, except for the fact that during foot hunting men have to attach the penis to the belt so as not to cling to it. branches.
Bushmen don't know what private property is. All animals and plants growing on their territory are considered common. Therefore, they hunt both wild animals and farm cows. For this they were very often punished and destroyed by entire tribes. Nobody wants such neighbors.
Among the Bushmen tribes, shamanism is very popular. They do not have leaders, but there are elders and healers who not only cure diseases, but also communicate with spirits. Bushmen are very afraid of the dead, and firmly believe in the afterlife. They pray to the sun, moon, stars. But they do not ask for health or happiness, but for success in hunting.
Bushman tribes speak Khoisan languages which are very difficult for Europeans to pronounce. A characteristic feature of these languages is clicking consonants. The representatives of the tribe speak among themselves very quietly. This is a long-standing habit of hunters - so as not to scare the game.
There is confirmed evidence that a hundred years ago they were engaged in drawing. Rock paintings depicting people and various animals are still found in the caves: buffaloes, gazelles, birds, ostriches, antelopes, crocodiles.
In their drawings there are also unusual fairy-tale characters: monkey people, eared snakes, people with a crocodile face. There is an entire open-air gallery in the desert that presents these amazing drawings by unknown artists.
But now the Bushmen do not paint, they are great in dance, music, pantomime and legends.
VIDEO: Shamanic ritual rite of healing of the Bushmen tribe. Part 1
Shamanic ritual rite of healing of the Bushmen tribe. Part 2
Every year there are fewer and fewer places on Earth where primitive tribes can live. There they get food by hunting and fishing, they believe that the gods send rain, they do not know how to write and read. They can die from a common cold or flu. Wild tribes are a godsend for anthropologists and evolutionists. Sometimes the meeting happens by chance, and sometimes scientists are specifically looking for them. According to scientists, about a hundred wild tribes currently live in South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia.
Every year it becomes more and more difficult for these peoples, but they do not give up and do not leave the territories of their ancestors, continuing to live the same way as they lived.
Amondawa Indian Tribe
The Amondawa Indians live in the Amazon jungle. The tribe has no concept of time - the corresponding words (month, year) are simply absent in the language of the Amondawa Indians. The language of the Amondawa Indians can describe events occurring in time, but is powerless to describe time itself as a separate concept. Civilization first came to the Amondava Indians in 1986.
The Amondava people do not mention their ages. It's just that, passing from one period of his life to another or changing his status in the tribe, the Amondawa Indian changes his name. But the most intriguing thing is the absence in the Amondawa language of displaying the passage of time by spatial means. Simply put, speakers of many languages of the world use expressions such as “this event is left behind” or “before this” (precisely in the temporal sense, that is, in the meaning of “before this”). But there are no such constructions in the Amondava language.
Piraha tribe
The Piraha tribe lives in the area of the Maysi River, a tributary of the Amazon. The tribe became known through Christian missionary Daniel Everett, who met with them in 1977. First of all, Everett was struck by the language of the Indians. It had only three vowels and seven consonants, and no numerals.
The past doesn't really matter to them. Piraha do not stockpile: caught fish, hunting prey, or harvested fruits are always eaten immediately. No storage and no plans for the future. The culture of this tribe is essentially limited to the present day and the usefulness that they have. Pirahas are practically unfamiliar with the worries and fears that torment the majority of the population of our planet.
Himba tribe
The Himba tribe lives in Namibia. Himba are engaged in cattle breeding. All the huts where people 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. The presence of clay on the body performs a hygienic purpose - clay allows the skin not to be exposed to sunburn and the skin gives less water.
Women in the tribe are employed in all household affairs. They take care of livestock, build huts, raise children, and make ornaments. 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. 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.
Huli tribe
The Huli tribe lives in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It is believed that the first Papuans of New Guinea migrated to the island over 45,000 years ago. This indigenous people fight for land, pigs and women. They also put a lot of effort into impressing the enemy. Huli paint their faces with yellow, red and white paint, and are also famous for the tradition of making elegant wigs from their own hair.
Sentinelese tribe
The tribe lives on an island in the Indian Ocean. The Sentinelese have absolutely no contact with other tribes, preferring to enter into intra-tribal marriages and maintain their population in the region of 400 people. Once, National Geographic employees tried to get to know them better, having previously laid out various offerings on the coast. Of all the gifts, the Sentinelese left only red buckets for themselves, everything else was thrown into the sea.
According to scientists, the islanders are the descendants of the first people who left Africa, the period of complete isolation of the Sentinelese can reach 50-60 thousand years, this tribe is stuck in the Stone Age.
The study of the tribe is carried out from the air or from ships, the islanders were left alone. Their piece of land surrounded by water became a kind of reserve, and the Sentinelese were allowed to live by their own laws.
Tribe Karavai
The tribe was discovered in the late 90s of the XX century. The number is estimated at about 3,000 people. Small monkey-like loaves live in huts in trees, otherwise the "sorcerers" will get them. Members of the alien tribe are reluctant to let in and behave aggressively.
Women in the tribe are considered common, but they make love only once a year, at other times women cannot be touched. Only a few of the loaves can write and read. Wild pigs are tamed as pets.
Tribes of the Nicobar and Andaman Islands
To this day, 5 tribes live on the islands located in the Indian Ocean basin, 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 life.
Andamanese are the indigenous people of the Andaman Islands. Now there are 200-300 people of the Jarawa tribe and about 100 people of the Onge tribe, as well as about 50 large Andamanese. This tribe has survived far from civilization, where an untouched corner of primitive nature continues to exist in an amazing way. Studies have shown that the Andaman Islands were inhabited by direct descendants of primitive people about 70 thousand years ago, who arrived from Africa.
The famous explorer and oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau visited the Andamans, but he was not allowed to get to the local tribes due to the law protecting this endangered tribe.
