Posted on 11/21/2018 7:34:22 AM PST by Red Badger
Edited on 11/21/2018 8:11:27 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
An American tourist was killed by arrows shot by protected tribesmen living in one of the world's most isolated regions tucked in India's Andaman islands, police said Wednesday.
John Chau, 27, had taken a boat ride with local fishermen before venturing alone in a canoe to the remote North Sentinel Island where the indigenous people live cut off completely from the outside world.
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I think it’s just Darwin in action again. He gets around quite a bit these days. Common sense and Darwin awards are inversely related.
Don’t forget the internet and Amazon drone delivery.
Poor Tonga was from the Andamans, so, that’s close enough.
Those people will Keelll you!
“Chinese for dinner?”
I once read about an island where anyone who landed there disappeared. Boat wrecks, downed planes whatever. There was some speculation the island’s inhabitants were cannibals.
I always wondered if they used fingers and toes for hors d’oeuvres?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Stupid is supposed to hurt.
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There aren't any groups that have been isolated for 20,000 years. The only conceivable way to support a claim of such isolation would be documentary evidence, and there's not only no known evidence that the islanders themselves have indigenous written records that old, there aren't any 20K written records anywhere on Earth (that are known about and/or can be read; there is writing here and there among the cave paintings, but nothing intelligible).
The ancestors of the current group got there perhaps during the diaspora which also resulted in the colonization of Madagascar by Austronesian people. Generally the date for that settlement of Madagascar ranges from 5th c BC to 4th c AD; recently there has been claims of higher antiquity. Spotty evidence of some kind of human presence (hunting/foraging?) has been known for a while.
Most of the other Sentinelese languages are either extinct, or teetering on the brink, and the 14000 acre N Sentinel island probably doesn't support a large population. Census figures by the Indian gov't are not based on door-to-door contact because of the pathological xenophobia of the tribe. There may be fewer than 50 in the entire group.
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I would say that is an accurate assessment.
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Quick, hire those guys to guard our Southern Border.
Because nothing brings the message of Christ’s salvation from the penalty of sin like the brand of “kill all the unbelieving heathen” missionary work you are personally championing.
I don’t believe that God desires his word be spread the way you do, lonestar67.
Nuke it from orbit. Only way to be sure.
This is the UN zoo of people
I’m
Sorry
This is actually hella funny
You win the Internet today!
I got the collected works of Doyle on my Kindle for $2.95 a few years ago. He wrote a lot of good stuff besides Sherlock Holmes.
BtW, that comment was not serious. Just an Aliens reference.
Good for you! you have a treasure awaiting you. Enjoy.
“The Lost World” has spawned how many movies?...............
Have to respectfully disagree with you. Considering the death rate among aboriginal people when they’re first exposed to diseases for which they have inherited no immunity, as well as alcohol, tobacco, drugs and other “features” of modern living, the filth and squalor of life on the edges of the “civilized” world, and that how these people live now may be rough but is also how humanity made it through most of the last 100 thousand years, I personally can’t blame them for wanting to remain isolated. From that perspective (and assuming they’re not imprisoned like animals in an anthropological zoo) the nincompoops may be doing them a favor.
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