Posted on 12/28/2004 6:34:30 PM PST by blam
What happened to the rare tribes?
SANJAY DUTTA & CHANDRIKA MAGO
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2004 11:19:06 PM
NEW DELHI: An enormous anthropological disaster is in the making. The killer tsunami is feared to have wiped out entire tribes — already threatened by their precariously small numbers — perhaps rendering them extinct and snapping the slender tie with a lost generation.
Officials involved in rescue operations are pessimistic, but still keeping their fingers crossed for the Sentinelese and Nicobarese, the two tribes seen as bearing the brunt of the killer wave.
The bigger fear is for the Sentinelese, anthropologically the most important tribe, living on the flat North Sentinel Island. Putting their population at about 100, officials say no body count is possible as the tribe had remained isolated. The Nicobarese, numbering about 25,000, are also feared to have suffered major losses, if not near -extinction. Clustered in 12 villages along the coast of Car Nicobar, the worst affected, it is feared nearly half of them could have been engulfed by the giant wave.
Then there are the Chowra and Teresa islands, mostly inhabited by the Nicobarese. Chowra has reported 38 deaths from a total population of 1,500. Here, too, the picture is hazy. The Onges, living on the Little Andaman island, are expected to fare a little better. So far, 14 deaths have been reported from the island. Some of these would be Onges. To begin with, they just number a 100.
The Shompens, Great Andamanese and Jarawas are expected to have fared better as they live on comparatively higher grounds. But their small number could be working against them.
Indonesia is also home to the famous Toba supervolcano, one that last erupted about 75,000 years ago. Some anthropologists who have studied mitochondrial DNA passing through human generations note that there was a drastic drop in the number of mitocondrial strains in humans around 75,000 to 74,000 years ago, closely matching the last major eruption of Toba. This meant that the Toba eruption may have come very close to wiping out the human race because of Toba's eruption effects worldwide.
Ahhhh. Not toooo surprised though I thought it had been successfully repressed.
I have very similar strong feelings.
Though I realize that there's bad apples in every culture.
And in this case, especially in the KJV
divers places.
Sadly.
When, in the last 6000 years, has an animal species ever been wiped out by "natural" phenomenon?
I hope you keep watching those stats.
I hope you have a huge capacity to be honest with yourself when they dramatically change.
Wellllllllllll, the cannibals
would be quite happy to
lay him on for dinner!
Sounds great to me.
Still a huge problem throughout the region.
The Caribbeans is another dangerous place to go.
On my vacations I always go back to our Mother continent - the mother of civilizations - Europe.
Unfortunate, but true.
dangerous? in the winter? perhaps during hurricane season, but how is the carribean dangerous?
"I'm not gonna weep for the inhabitants of the Nicobar islands - there have been some sad stories about Western tourists going there and not coming back. Some areas have always been sealed off."
They're cannibals and so they eat them. That's why they never return.
Not to mention volcanos, tropical storms, ice ages etc, that were all more devestation than this quake. The one in Alaska in 1964 for instance was 9.2 just to name one. Not the end of the world. As much as I believe in a creator I do not believe the world is up for destruction, it will die a natural death 4 billion years from now when the sun fails.
"Just my taste, I guess."
No, it's because as the old saaying goes: Birds of a feather flock together.
When in Rome do as the Romans do. Also don't forget to dress, act and be polite to Europeans and they may accept you for your temporary stay, despite not being one of them.
"I love them all."
Good! I hope you marry one of them and move there.
Oh please.
And by the way, Thailand is owned by Thai people, not supercilious, fat, unsmiling eurotrash. I like Thais and pity them for all the unpleasable, unhappy, unsmiling, highly demanding, self-centered, obnoxious, uncultured German package tourists travelling in big groups they must put up with.
In the news, fault is tossed around politically while ignoring a fault in the Earth's crust.
"Once again, we are a very changed world."
Changed world? In what ways?
I haven't changed a bit because of this tragedy.
This is not the first nor will it be the last tragedy.
I don't need to be married to someone in order to love them. This is a basic fact that many eurotrash cannot undertand. That is why they are so unpleasant to anyone they don't happen to be married to. No wonder they go Nazi, worry about lebesraum and blow each other up every century or so.
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