http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23782262-5011761,00.html Wow, how strange to think there's a part of the world that is still untouched like this. I wonder what those poor tribesmen were thinking when a giant metal bird few over...
I doubt they're truly 'untouched'. I'm sure they or their ancestors have experienced waves of disease from other Brazilian or Peruvian communities and I would bet they know something about the loggers downstream (and vice versa, the loggers know something about them). Wouldn't be surprised for someone to eventually go there and find metal machetes and axe heads here and there, maybe a Patriots 19-0 t-shirt on top of it The linguist at the end of your article even suggested the possibility that the once lived somewhere else, only to move to the bush to escape the various booms in the Amazon, rubber, logging, cattle, soy etc
It wouldn't surprise me that they are really "uncontacted". Furthermore, I think there still are many species and some human groups which are completely unknown to us.
Hey Rev, i think Dark Mistress has this posted in the science forum brotha! http://forums.thephins.com/showthread.php?t=9475
regardless, I don't think there has been a completely 'pristine' society on this planet for a very long time. But it makes for a better headline
They might not be completely virgin, but the fact that they're firing arrows at a helicopter would suggest that they have little/no comprehension of what exactly it is.
why? because an arrow can't take it down? I can tell you that, after looking at those pictures, I wouldn't want to try to walk up to that village. Not in a million years. If I'm a logger or miner, I just got convinced it's not worth the trouble. Only missionaries would be crazy enough one could make the case they're looking fierce for a reason, heck, the pilots may have buzzed the village a few times to get them angry. Makes for better pictures, you know National Geographic or Discovery Channel is scrambling to do a show now. Someone is getting rich. Who knows? Even Napoleon Chagnon staged axe fights with the Yanomamo, passing them off as legit of course, to sell more anthro books. I'm a little suspicious that every indigenous person we see in the pictures is all painted up. I've read a lot of Amazonian anthropology and archaeology, know several professional researchers that work in the area (there's a vibrant little group at UF). People's bodies aren't painted up all the time, especially not all the men. I'm not saying it's staged, but it looks odd. also looks like they just chopped down a tree (to the right of the archers). Normally with stone axes that's done by alternating between burning and hacking away the char. Stone axes take hours and hours for a tree that size (though who knows how hard it is) and produce lots of tiny wood chips and broken axe flakes. Hard to see, but there look like some pretty big wood chips lying around it, suggesting the possibility of machete work
Anyone see 'End of the Spear'? Great movie about missionaries making contact with the Ecuadorian Indian tribes, back in the 60s.
Love reading about indians. Good read . I agree with Mucks post, it seems like they are not familiar with technology at all since they were attacking the helicopter with arrows. I found this interesting: It states that they need to ensure that their territory is protected in accordance with international law, what do they exactly mean by that? Do they mean that the world needs to obey the restricted rules set up for tribes or the tribes will eventually die out over time?
pretty good movie. I understand the 'Ecuadorians', or at least several of them, were really played by Cuna from the Caribbean coasts of Panama and Colombia
Huh, didn't know that. My wife is from Ecuador, and I still demand for her to 'bring me my drink'. She speared me.
well even if this particular picture is fake, the idea of uncontacted tribes has still got to be true, and thats pretty cool if you think about it
touchdown poco! In all seriousness, they tried to make them look both scary and exotic to warn off the loggers and get everyone else's sympathy at the same time. Not a bad strategy, but one unlikely to work forever.
Actually if you read the article closely it dosen't say it's fake at all. The picture is real, the situation is real and it really is a tribe void of contact with the outside world. The difference here is simply that they did know about this tribe rather than it being a brand new find. Regardless, the tribe is real and they clearly fall under the requirements that give such groups protection. Was stupid for the guy to have to try and hype the situation when he didn't need to as the truth already supported his cause.
I think we should go manifest destiny on their asses. You know show the savages that the white men are superrior, rape, pilage and spread disease. What? Dont look at me like that, they're Hell-bound anyway.
