"Love you alone in the dark alley, love the way you don't kneel, love you face each other and despair..." This is a recently popular song, titled "Lonely Brave", whose song background is about a 29-year-old girl, who faces a sudden illness alone, and after 2 rounds of chemotherapy and 33 times of radiation therapy, successfully "escapes from death". And today's xiaobian, to tell you about a person who is known as the loneliest person in the world.
Mysterious man "appears"
According to some sources, he is a person in an isolated tribe who lives in the most dangerous area of the Brazilian rainforest, because he is better at digging holes, so everyone named him "Cave Man". His last "encounter" with humans was four years ago, in 2018, and he has not been seen since.
Today, he has "appeared" again, but he has passed away, leaving only his body. No one knows about him, does not know what his surname is, does not know what language he uses, and does not know the information about the tribe in which he belongs.
According to British and other media reports, on August 23 last week, the staff in charge of the National Indian Foundation found the body of the man during a routine inspection, when he was lying in a hammock outside the grass hut, covered with macaw feathers. And there are no signs of outsiders invading or fighting at the scene. After examination, the relevant staff concluded that he died of natural causes, at the age of about 60 years old, and had been dead for 40 to 50 days.
Good at punching holes
After the discovery of his body, the relevant personnel began to investigate the surrounding environment and found dozens of deep holes near his residence. In the cave, bamboo thorns were found, large and small. We speculate that it may be a cave man who uses these holes to trap birds of prey, sometimes to defend against foreign intruders, and some holes are used by himself to hide.
First discovery
In 1996, the Cave Man was first discovered by indigenous Brazilian things, when he also found humans, although not dressed, but with a bow and arrow, they flashed through the rainforest quickly, and then they could not be found. There are people who trace his footprints, discovering his circle of life. But to everyone's surprise, he likes to dig a hole in the middle of the floor, the hole is very narrow, and its depth is 1.8 meters. The staff had also seen other indigenous people living in the hut, but had not seen his way, and in the relevant records, had not seen it, so so far, the local staff did not know how the hole was used and what its function was. However, some scholars believe that this kind of cave has a totemic meaning.
In 2018, his staff met him in the jungle when he was cutting down trees with axe-like tools, half-naked and wearing only a loincloth-like strip of cloth.
Reject outsiders
According to people from the local indigenous office, the area where the man is located is the border between Brazil and Bolivia, and because of the abundant natural resources here, many foreign ranchers or some prospectors come here to search for treasure. Back in the 1970s, some ranchers killed most of their people in order to expand their land.
According to the 2010 census, Brazil has about 900,000 indigenous people, less than 0.5% of the total population, and in 2020, the Ministry of Social Welfare data, Brazil has 72,861 indigenous people legally employed, 1,080 fewer than in 2019.
Others in the man's tribe, probably killed by illegal ranchers who moved into the area in the 1970s, were attacked by illegal miners in 1995, and the man was the only survivor. After his managers discovered him in 1996, in 1997, the Tanalu Aboriginal Sanctuary was created here, and it has been speculated that the man had lived alone in the area for at least 26 years, perhaps because he had seen many relatives and friends of the tribe killed before that, and the measures he took to protect himself turned into a refusal to contact the outside world. To us outsiders, we may want to give him more help, and in his eyes, there is no difference between us and the humans who killed his people. After a long period of massacres and land invasions, he believed that denying contact with the outside world was the best way for him to survive.
The management staff had to check his physical condition, deliberately leaving some food or some supplies, but each time he was refused, he had a strong resistance to outsiders, and once someone approached, he would set a trap or take up a weapon to prepare for resistance. Once, when the local manager was approaching his thatched hut, he shot an arrow that resulted in a piercing of the worker's lung, so their vigilance was very high.
His life
During these 26 years of loneliness, local staff carried out protective follow-up and discovered some of his habits. In his living area, the staff found nearly 53 thatched houses, all of which he had built alone, because they found that all of these rooms had a common place, that is, in the middle of the floor of the house, there was a hole up to 1.8 deep. So some scholars believe that this may be related to his beliefs. And he himself never slept in the cave, and he never stored anything in the cave. Whenever he went to a new territory, he often did the first thing to dig a hole and then build a house.
He would set up some trap holes in the jungle or outside the thatched huts, which were mainly used for hunting. In addition to these, he would grow some crops like corn, papaya, bananas, etc. outside the thatched hut.
Relevant institutional protection
After the discovery of the "cave people", the local government in 1997 carried out protective measures and restricted the entry of outsiders on the 8,000 hectares of land in which they lived, but in 2009, it was found that foreign armed personnel had entered and left a large amount of ammunition, as if it were a demonstration. The British newspaper The Guardian reported that there were about 235-300 indigenous tribes in Brazil now, because they have little contact with society, and the specific number of tribes has yet to be examined. But there are at least 30 tribes that live deep in the Amazon rainforest. The outside world knows nothing about their language, culture, etc.
macaw
On the carcass of the "Cave Man" we find the feathers of a macaw. According to some Baidu websites, it is the parrot with the most beautiful feathers living in the tropical rainforest of the Americas. It is a social bird that likes to move in pairs. Small groups of more than 40 can generally be seen. They are a relatively intelligent bird that cries out for help when in danger, and its sound can pass through the branches of the forest to reach its own kind or its own small community.
They are also known as Hercules birds because of their strong pecking power. In the Amazon forest, there are many huge fruits, even if humans use tools, it is difficult to open, and they can easily eat the fruits with their own beaks and through ingenuity. It feeds mainly on figs, palm tree fruits, berries, and stone fruit.
They are not afraid of humans, are easily domesticated by humans, and can coexist peacefully with other parrots, often learning human languages. But sometimes it bites other animals, or strangers, and scientists have confirmed that some parrots can live to be 80 years old.
Some sources also mention that it also has a function, that is, it is not invaded by poisons. The food derived from it is mainly fruits and flowers, which contain many poisonous substances, and parrots will not be poisoned after eating, they also eat the soil on the rock wall, which may be that these soil blocks contain minerals, so they are generally not poisoned.
Cave people may know that their lives are not long, so they cover themselves with macaw feathers and wait for death.
Facing extinction
With regard to the protection of indigenous peoples, the Bureau of Indigenous Affairs has set aside special protected areas with more than 8,000 hectares of land to ensure that these residents can live a peaceful life here. According to the clerk's staff, there are probably hundreds of surviving tribes in this Amazon region, but each tribe is only a few and is facing extinction. They are isolated from the outside world, and any disease depends only on their own resistance, and sometimes these small diseases such as colds can lead to their death.
There are other factors that lead to it, such as a tribe in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso where staff found that its tribe had three survivors, an infertile woman and two men, and such a tribe was already a tribe doomed to disappear.
This cave man was a tribe that the staff had already discovered, and when the cave man died, we realized that there might already be other, unknown, unconnected tribes that had disappeared into the forest.
There is also an external reason, that is, the very mining, or land occupiers, when they want to occupy their territory, they are unable to resist, because their weapons are too simple, the prey is OK, and it is far worse to deal with intruders.
They are contemporaries
The people of the Indigenous Management Office say that they are not primitive people, they can be called contemporary, they are a very important part of representing the diversity of human beings. According to statistics, there are about 300 million indigenous people in the world, and they have also been discriminated against and the land has been encroached upon like the cave people, however, many indigenous people are no longer conservative, and they have followed the changes of the times, using some high-tech products, such as cameras, mobile phones and so on.