8 tribes that still live in the Stone Age

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

I wonder if our life would be much calmer and less nervous and hectic without all the modern technological advances? Probably yes, but it's hardly more comfortable. Now imagine that tribes live calmly on our planet in the 21st century, which can easily do without all this.

Some videos have not been translated into Russian, but they illustrate the life and appearance of the tribes.

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. Yarava 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 Yarava refused.

Human Safari: Observing the Jarawa

2. Yanomami

Yanomami lead their usual ancient way of life on the border between Brazil and Venezuela: 22 thousand live on the Brazilian side and 16 thousand on the Venezuelan side. Some of them have mastered the processing of metals 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 the help of plant poisons.

Yanomami: Vitaly Sundakov

3. Nomole

About 600-800 representatives of this tribe live in the rainforests of Peru, and only from about 2015 they began to appear 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, I don’t hesitate to kill an opponent in order to take possession of his thing.

Uncontacted tribe: new footage of Peru's Mashco Piro tribe

4. Ava-Guaya

The first contact with Ava Guaya occurred in 1989, but it is unlikely that civilization 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 beloved forest animal.

ep 2 Tribal Journeys The Awa Guaja

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 to their territory. In 2004, after the tsunami, many people were affected on the neighboring islands. When anthropologists flew over the North Sentinel Island to check how its strange inhabitants were there, a group of aborigines came out of the forest and waved menacingly in their direction with stones and bows and arrows.

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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, but the Tagaeri and Taromenane split from the main group of Huaorani in the 1970s and went into the rainforest to continue their nomadic, ancient lifestyle. … These tribes are rather unfriendly and vindictive, therefore there were no special contacts with them.

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7. Kawahiva

The remaining representatives of the Brazilian Kawahiva tribe are mostly nomads. They do not like to contact people and just try to survive by hunting, fishing and occasionally farming. The Kawahiva 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 of them.

Rare video of non-contact Kawahiva Indians from Brazil published

8. Hadza

Hadza is one of the last tribes of hunter-gatherers (about 1300 people) living in Africa near the equator near Lake Eyasi in Tanzania. They have been living in the same place for the past 1.9 million years. Only 300-400 Hadza continue to live the old fashioned way and even officially recaptured part of their land in 2011. Their lifestyle is based on the fact that everything is shared, and property and food should always be shared.