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American killed by tribe in India
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Here's a friendly encounter back in the 90's
Since then no official contact has been allowed. What is known of their culture is minimal. They're likely similar to others in the region. One odd thing they do when approached by boats is as well as hurling spears and arrows the men and women shag each other vigorously on the beach in full view. Showing off in fact. What that's about who knows.
It's not social sciences we're talking here. Archaeological evidence and the various tribes own words. The domestication of the wolf/dog appears to have happened a couple of times in a couple of places, but the earliest definitive example of a "dog" is about 15,000 years ago. There are tantalising glimpses that may show earlier domestication events at 20,000 plus years ago, but they're rare. Genetic evidence in modern dogs and wolves gives a figure around the 10,000 mark.Deleted User wrote: »How do we know they never domesticated dogs? I'm always extremely sceptical when it come to the *ahem* soft sciences.
The upshot of all that being that the Andaman islanders had long left Africa and the Asian mainland before the dog came along. That added to the archaeological evidence strongly suggests they didn't have dogs until outsiders showed up. And even then when they did, the islanders showed no interest in keeping dogs themselves.
Their cultures have degraded over the millennia. They once had pottery, but for some reason knocked that on the head about a thousand years ago. That tech may well have been brought in from outside.Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.
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Since then no official contact has been allowed. What is known of their culture is minimal. They're likely similar to others in the region. One odd thing they do when approached by boats is as well as hurling spears and arrows the men and women shag each other vigorously on the beach in full view. Showing off in fact. What that's about who knows.
And THIS is the video you show us?!?!0 -
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Wut nonsense is this? They have made it abundantly clear for many decades they want to be left alone. The government of the region respects that wish and makes it illegal to contact them. Once or twice they have been friendly to passing fishermen so long as they didn't step onto their land. Moron goes to convert them into a culture nor religion they want to have anything to do with, a moron that could kill them with a sneeze and they kill him. Sounds like a pretty good basis for self defence to me.
Are these morons like the mormons ?Here's a friendly encounter back in the 90's
Since then no official contact has been allowed. What is known of their culture is minimal. They're likely similar to others in the region. One odd thing they do when approached by boats is as well as hurling spears and arrows the men and women shag each other vigorously on the beach in full view. Showing off in fact. What that's about who knows.
And where is that video ?It's not social sciences we're talking here. Archaeological evidence and the various tribes own words. The domestication of the wolf/dog appears to have happened a couple of times in a couple of places, but the earliest definitive example of a "dog" is about 15,000 years ago. There are tantalising glimpses that may show earlier domestication events at 20,000 plus years ago, but they're rare. Genetic evidence in modern dogs and wolves gives a figure around the 10,000 mark.
The upshot of all that being that the Andaman islanders had long left Africa and the Asian mainland before the dog came along. That added to the archaeological evidence strongly suggests they didn't have dogs until outsiders showed up. And even then when they did, the islanders showed no interest in keeping dogs themselves.
Their cultures have degraded over the millennia. They once had pottery, but for some reason knocked that on the head about a thousand years ago. That tech may well have been brought in from outside.
But they do like cats, right ?
Any chance this is a possible location for I'm a celebrity ....Ignorance it is so. FCO advice is Tajikistan is grand barring general precautions. Other Stans are fantastic tourist destinations. The attack you reference was the first of its kind in Tajikistan. Not comparable with a group of people it's illegal to contact because they are actively hostile to outsiders.
But hey, close your mind to the Stans because of one incident if you want. But it's the definition of ignorance really
(This has gone way off topic; apologies)
Does that include Afghanistan and Pakistan ?I am not allowed discuss …
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Galwayguy35 wrote: »If there is only around 150 of them they must be very inbred by now, I'm not saying that trying to be smart or anything but you would think it would mean they have health problems when they are all so closely related.
It would remind me of a few places, one being in Galway.
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Galwayguy35 wrote: »We like to cross the border to breed with Mayo women occasionally just to mix things up a bit
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