Living in a civilized society today, it is difficult for us to imagine the life of primitive people, and the wild people who feed on the same kind in Robinson Crusoe only stay at the level of literary description, and most people can only rely on these words to conceive of their appearance and habits.
So when we hear that there are actually such people living in the same era as us, we may have a hard time believing that these so-called Tajima people are isolated from the world, and there is almost no sign of civilization in the place, and even directly compete with animals for food.
The place where Tasmanians live is called Tasmania, an island located in the south of Australia, because it is further south than Oceania, so there is a very romantic name, called "The End of the World".
Administratively, Tasmania is part of Australia, and although it is an island state, it is not actually an isolated island, and the entire Tasmanian island contains more than 300 scattered islets, and this form is also the result of acquired structure.
If it is an animal living in the Ice Age, it can enter the Australian interior directly along the connection from here, but because of the change of the Earth's climate and environment, the sea level rises, and the only passage between the two lands is submerged in the sea, and Tasmania has become a lonely place overseas.
It is for this reason that it has almost lost contact with the Australian mainland, retaining a relatively primitive appearance in both natural and social terms.
Looking down from mid-air in the southern hemisphere, Tasmania resembles a heart. For such a paradise-like place, the meaning of the heart also brings people a lot of imagination associated with the original life force, but if you really walk here, you may feel a little disappointed.
First of all, Tasmania is really small, and if you arrive here this morning and hike around the island, you might be able to get around tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
And the landscape here is relatively single, the most is the mountain, and the scattered plateaus, hills combined together, but really let people feel some of the original atmosphere.
The indigenous people of Tasmania first entered the historical landscape in the mid-17th century.
The Age of Discovery allowed many worlds unknown to Europeans to be discovered little by little, and when they reached Tasmania, the 100% primitiveness displayed by the people here surprised everyone.
Compared with the modern industrial world that is slowly connecting outside, it is still stuck in the Stone Age, and the clothes worn by people are still animal skins, but there is no trace of processing, because they have not even learned the sewing technology, and the tools used are only some simple selected stones.
Obviously, they don't know how to make better use of this tool, which means that they are most likely in the transition from apes to humans, or strictly speaking, the first step in the evolution of the species.
But these are not the most shocking things about tasmania's indigenous people, anthropologists' research tells us that the primitive state of the mid-17th century was actually the result of a regression in civilization.
That is to say, before that, the humans here have actually evolved very maturely, at least 10,000 years ago, the Tadao people have fully mastered the technology of making and using tools, and activities such as sewing, hunting, and building are very common.
Because there is a large area of sea around, so the people here are still very good at fishing, archaeology found that there were already fishing nets, harpoons and other things at that time, in that era was already a relatively advanced achievement of civilization, so what is the reason that everything can return to the original point, so that civilization is so exhausted?
Research experts believe that such a phenomenon is a typical degradation of civilization, and generally speaking, there may be some reasons for this, such as the occurrence of major natural disasters in the local area, such as tsunamis.
Large natural disasters can swallow up most of this ethnic group in a very short period of time, leaving only a very small number. These people have almost no mature tool-making experts, and over time, these technologies have gradually lost their inheritance, but in order to survive, these people must continue to operate on the island, and without food, they can only compete with animals.
It is also possible that Tasmania, although it has entered the stage of civilization, but because it is far from the world where civilizations are prosperous and has no connection with Australia, there is no suitable opportunity for them to continue to move forward.
For example, from this state of field collection to a stable agricultural life, after a long time, the original survival technology gradually lost its vitality, and it was directly abandoned later, because compared with the barbaric way of behavior, there was not much advantage.
Of course, this degradation of Tasmania changed quickly after contact with the civilization of the New World, but it is sad that the history of colonization, killing and bacterial invasion caused by alien species that these groups that have not been able to break away from the primitive state have completely disappeared from history.
Barbaric or civilized, if these people were given another chance, how would they choose?