First Time Tribe Encounter with Civilized Man [Real or Fake?]

Cool vid and have always liked the song at the start

Their reaction makes me think of how ancient man would have reacted if they'd met aliens or time travellers or something, and it's always nice to know that there's some folk in the world who don't spend their days worrying about the crap we have to

These tribes do exist

here is one from a few months ago
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12360013

If it is real I think the mirror bit was pretty interesting. To them it must have just seemed like a portal or something as they've no understanding of light or reflection.

The handshaking was weird. Although it's possible they developed it on their own it's typically a western thing. And the fact that the white guy started to greet them by shaking their hand shows pure ignorance on his part, not something you'd expect from an anthropologist (assuming this guy is one).

Could be real. There's parts of the Papua New Guinea highlands that have yet to be explored by westerners.

The first time aerial photography was taken the surveyors were amazed to find large scale agriculture taking place.

New tribes have been encountered in PNG and have confirmed that things like laughing and counting for example are universal in humans.

Millicent wrote: »

If that is real, is it not highly likely the tribe has now been exposed to illnesses it has no immunity to? I call shenanigans but if it is real, that guy is an idiot.

Chances are that the tribe would have been exposed to illnesses by contact with other tribes who in turn had contact with westerners. The native north americans and meso/south americans were decimated across the whole of both continents in the space of a few years. By the time Pizarro, Cortez and any of the other conquistadors made it as far as the emperors their civilizations were on the point of collapse due to the plagues that had followed the initial contact a few years previously and had spread through inter tribal contact.
On the other hand , white man has been in PNG for 200 years. Its highly unlikely that the tribe would not have had some contact with other tribes who themselves would have been exposed either directly or indirectly to our pathogens.

Daroxtar wrote: »

Chances are that the tribe would have been exposed to illnesses by contact with other tribes who in turn had contact with westerners. The native north americans and meso/south americans were decimated across the whole of both continents in the space of a few years. By the time Pizarro, Cortez and any of the other conquistadors made it as far as the emperors their civilizations were on the point of collapse due to the plagues that had followed the initial contact a few years previously and had spread through inter tribal contact.
On the other hand , white man has been in PNG for 200 years. Its highly unlikely that the tribe would not have had some contact with other tribes who themselves would have been exposed either directly or indirectly to our pathogens.

Cheers for that. I had thought that was one of the reasons that other tribes had been aerially observed rather than interacted with.