Accustomed to the charm of civilization (and its drawbacks), it's hard to imagine how people could live without the internet, phones, cars, medicines, and so on. Involuntarily, one gets the impression that all people on earth live in a similar way.
However, there are still some tribes on Earth whose development after the Stone Age has not yet progressed. Moreover, these people are happy with their lives and will not change for anything. Where are these peoples and why are they isolated from the world?
Yama Sea
In northern Brazil and southern Venezuela, there is a group of about 35,000 Indian tribes, collectively known as Yanomami. Some tribes were familiar with metal casting and weaving techniques, but most got along well with stone tools, plus animal skins.
The original Yanomami referred to foreigners. All those who did not belong to the local tribe were considered their distant relatives, it was just that the language of these relatives was distorted over time.
They were content with a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. The aborigines mastered the art of fishing with poison and curing diseases with herbs.
Most Yanomami tribes have extremely limited contact with the outside world, because the Indians do not want to change the way they have established for centuries. However, the pandemic has even changed the way they live, with local villages forced to seek help and medication.
Normor
There are 600 to 800 tribal members in the Amazon jungle of Peru. They hunted for food and lived a very unpretentious way of life.
Familiarity with European civilization led to the death of most tribes in 1894 at the hands of soldiers of Carlos Fitzcarrald's private army. The surviving aborigines fled into the impenetrable jungle, where they managed to survive.
In Nomole, contact with the outside world is restricted because the Peruvian government bans communication with locals, fearing they are going extinct due to a lack of immunity to many diseases. It was believed that tribal members had no concept of good or evil, that it was normal to kill for the sake of possessing anything, and that they would not be condemned by their fellow tribesmen.
Jalawa
The Andaman Islands are located in the Indian Ocean and provide shelter for various tribes. About 50,000 years ago, the Jarawa tribe, where they still live.
The tribe now has about 400 people, its members hunt with bows and arrows, coral atolls provide fishing opportunities, and Yarawa also collects honey and fruit. In the 1990s, the Indian government provided assistance to Yarava by gaining the benefits of civilization, but the locals refused.
Sulma
The Ethiopian tribe Surma until recently almost completely avoided contact with civilization. In recent decades, however, it has unknowingly become famous.
It is known for the shape of the lips, which is obtained thanks to the plate inserted. At the same time as the world's wars, divisions and redivisions, these people continue to live in isolated groups and engage in cattle breeding.
The first contact with the locals in the 80s was a success for Soviet doctors. In addition, initially, because of their skin color, the locals thought they were dealing with the resurrected dead.
Surm's representatives have little interest in technological innovation for humans, except for a few things, including the Kalashnikov assault rifle. They need to protect the herd.
sentry
The Sentinelese tribe lives on the same Andaman Islands. Scientists believe these people don't even know how to make a fire — the food is cooked on smoldering coal, taken from trees lit by lightning. But studying the life of the tribe was impossible: Sentinelese kept strangers out, trying to get close to their helicopters and boats exposed to a rain of arrows.
Those who successfully landed should not be jealous because they rested on the island. Now the Indian government bans visits to the island to avoid contracting diseases unknown to the locals while not endangering researchers.
There are enough places on Earth that civilizations have touched them weakly or not at all. And the tribes themselves, which lived not far from the Stone Age, did not need these benefits at all.