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The main part of the peoples of Africa includes groups consisting of several thousand and sometimes hundreds of people, but at the same time - does not exceed 10% of total number population of this continent. As a rule, such small ethnic groups are the most savage tribes.
The Mursi tribe, for example, belongs to this group.
The Ethiopian Mursi tribe is the most aggressive ethnic group
Ethiopia is the oldest country in the world. It is Ethiopia that is considered the ancestor of humanity; it was here that the remains of our ancestor, modestly named Lucy, were found.
More than 80 ethnic groups live in the country.
Living in southwestern Ethiopia, on the border with Kenya and Sudan, settled in Mago Park, the Mursi tribe is distinguished by unusually strict customs. They can rightfully be nominated for the title of the most aggressive ethnic group.
Prone to frequent alcohol consumption and uncontrolled use of weapons. IN everyday life The main weapon of the tribe's men is the Kalashnikov assault rifle, which they buy in Sudan.
In fights, they can often beat each other almost to death, trying to prove their dominance in the tribe.
Scientists attribute this tribe to a mutated Negroid race, with distinctive features such as short stature, wide bones and crooked legs, low and tightly compressed foreheads, flattened noses and pumped-up short necks.
Mursi women's bodies often look flabby and sickly, with sagging bellies and breasts, and hunched backs. There is practically no hair, which was often hidden under intricate headdresses of a very fancy type, using as material everything that could be picked up or caught nearby: rough skins, branches, dried fruits, swamp shellfish, someone's tails, dead insects and even incomprehensible stinking carrion.
Most famous feature The Mursi tribe has a tradition of inserting plates into the lips of girls.
The more public Mursi who come into contact with civilization may not always have all these characteristic attributes, but the exotic appearance of their lower lip is business card tribe.
Plates are made different sizes made of wood or clay, the shape can be round or trapezoidal, sometimes with a hole in the middle. For beauty, the plates are covered with a pattern.
The lower lip is cut in childhood, and pieces of wood are inserted there, gradually increasing their diameter.
Mursi girls begin wearing plates at the age of 20, six months before marriage. The lower lip is pierced and a small disc is inserted into it; after the lip is stretched, the disc is replaced with a larger one and so on until required diameter(up to 30 centimeters!!).
The size of the plate matters: the larger the diameter, the more valued the girl is and the more cattle the groom will pay for her. Girls must wear these plates at all times except when sleeping and eating, and they can also take them out if there are no males of the tribe nearby.
When the plate is pulled out, the lip hangs down in a long, round rope. Almost all Mursi have no front teeth, and their tongue is cracked and bleeding.
The second strange and terrifying decoration of Mursi women is the monista, which is made from human phalanges of fingers (nek). One person has only 28 of these bones in his hands. Each necklace usually consists of phalanges of five or six tassels; for some lovers of “costume jewelry,” the monista is wrapped around the neck in several rows
It glistens greasyly and emits a sweetish rotting smell of melted human fat; every bone is rubbed daily. The source for beads never runs low: the priestess of the tribe is ready to deprive the hands of a man who has broken the laws for almost every offense.
It is customary for this tribe to do scarification (scarring).
Men can afford scarring only after the first murder of one of their enemies or ill-wishers. If they kill a man, they decorate right hand, if a woman, then the left one.
Their religion, animism, deserves a longer and more shocking story.
Short: women are priestesses of death, so they give their husbands drugs and poisons every day.
The High Priestess distributes antidotes, but sometimes salvation does not come to everyone. In such cases, a white cross is drawn on the widow's plate, and she becomes a very respected member of the tribe, who is not eaten after death, but is buried in the trunks of special ritual trees. Honor is due to such priestesses due to the fulfillment of the main mission - the will of the God of Death Yamda, which they were able to fulfill by destroying physical body and releasing the highest spiritual Essence from his man.
The rest of the dead will be collectively eaten by the entire tribe. Soft tissues are boiled in a cauldron, bones are used for amulets and thrown in swamps to mark dangerous places.
What seems very wild for a European is commonplace and tradition for the Mursi.
Bushmen tribe
African Bushmen are the most ancient representatives human race. And this is not speculation at all, but a scientifically proven fact. Who are these ancient people?
Bushmen are a group of hunting tribes South Africa. Now these are the remains of numerous ancient African population. Bushmen are distinguished by their short stature, wide cheekbones, narrow eyes and much swollen eyelids. True Color It is difficult to determine their skin, because in the Kalahari they are not allowed to waste water on washing. But you can notice that they are much lighter than their neighbors. Their skin tone is slightly yellowish, which is more common among South Asians.
Young Bushmen are considered the most beautiful among the female population of Africa.
But once they reach puberty and become mothers, these beauties are simply unrecognizable. Bushmen women have overdeveloped hips and buttocks, and their stomachs are constantly swollen. This is a consequence of poor nutrition.
To distinguish a pregnant Bushwoman from other women of the tribe, she is coated with ash or ocher, since appearance this is very difficult to do. By the age of 35, Bushman men begin to look like octogenarians, due to the fact that their skin sagging and their bodies become covered with deep wrinkles.
Life in Kalahari is very harsh, but even here there are laws and rules. The most important resource in the desert is water. There are old people in the tribe who know how to find water. At the place that they indicate, the representatives of the tribe either dig wells or drain water using plant stems.
Each Bushman tribe has a secret well, which is carefully blocked with stones or covered with sand. During the dry season, the Bushmen dig a hole at the bottom of a dry well, take a plant stem, suck water through it, take it into their mouths, and then spit it into the shell of an ostrich egg.
South African Bushman tribe the only people on Earth, where men have a constant erection, This phenomenon does not cause any unpleasant sensations or inconveniences, except for the fact that while hunting on foot, men have to attach the penis to the belt so as not to cling to branches.
Bushmen do not know what private property is. All animals and plants growing in their territory are considered common. Therefore, they hunt both wild animals and farm cows. For this they were very often punished and destroyed by entire tribes. Nobody wants neighbors like this.
Shamanism is very popular among the Bushmen tribes. They do not have leaders, but there are elders and healers who not only treat diseases, but also communicate with spirits. Bushmen are very afraid of the dead, and firmly believe in an afterlife. They pray to the sun, moon, stars. But they are not asking for health or happiness, but for success in hunting.
The Bushman tribes speak Khoisan languages, which are very difficult for Europeans to pronounce. Characteristic feature these languages have click consonants. Representatives of the tribe speak very quietly among themselves. This is a long-standing habit of hunters - so as not to spook the game.
There is confirmed evidence that a hundred years ago they were engaged in drawing. They are still found in caves rock paintings, depicting people and various animals: buffaloes, gazelles, birds, ostriches, antelopes, crocodiles.
Their drawings also contain unusual fairy tale characters: monkey people, eared snakes, crocodile-faced people. In the desert there is a whole gallery under open air, which presents these amazing drawings by unknown artists.
But now the Bushmen do not paint; they are excellent in dance, music, pantomime and stories.
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These people do not know what electricity is or how to drive cars, they live as their ancestors lived for centuries, getting food by hunting and fishing. They cannot read or write, and can die from a common cold or a scratch. All this is about the wild tribes that still exist on our planet.
There are not many such communities closed from civilization; they live mainly in warm countries, in Africa, South America, Asia and Australia. Today it is believed that no more than 100 such tribes have survived on the entire planet. Sometimes it is almost impossible to study their life and culture, since they live too isolated and do not want to have contact with the outside world, or their immune system is not ready to “meet” modern bacteria, and any disease, the course of which a modern person may not even notice , for a savage will be fatal. Unfortunately, civilization is still “advancing”, uncontrolled cutting of trees is taking place almost everywhere, people are still developing new lands, and wild tribes are forced to leave their lands, and sometimes even go to the “big” world.
Papuans
This people lives in New Guinea and is found in Melanesia, on the islands of Halmahera, Timor and Alor.
In terms of anthropogenic appearance, the Papuans are closest to the Melanesians, but with a completely different language and culture. Some tribes speak completely different languages, which are not even related. Today their national language is Tok Pisin Creole.
In total there are approximately 3.7 million Papuans, with some wild tribes numbering no more than 100 people. Among them there are many nationalities: Bonkins, Gimbu, Ekari, Chimbu and others. It is believed that these people inhabited Oceania 20-25 thousand years ago.
Every community has a community house called buambramba. This is a kind of cultural and spiritual center the entire village. In some villages you can see a huge house in which everyone lives together; its length can reach 200 meters.
Papuans are farmers, the main crops grown are taro, banana, yam and coconut. The harvest must be stored standing, that is, collected only for eating. Savages also raise pigs and hunt.
Pygmies
These are the wild tribes of Africa. Even the ancient Egyptians knew about their existence. They are mentioned by Homer and Herodotus. However, the existence of pygmies was confirmed for the first time only in the 19th century, when they were discovered in the Uzle and Ituri river basin. Today, the existence of these people is known in Rwanda, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, Zaire and in the forests of Gabon. You can even meet pygmies in South Asia, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia.
Distinctive feature Pygmies are short in stature, from 144 to 150 centimeters. Their hair is curly and their skin is light brown. The body is usually quite large, and the legs and arms are short. Pygmies are classified as a separate race. No special language has been identified among these peoples; they communicate in those dialects whose peoples live nearby: Asua, Kimbuti and others.
Another feature of this people is the short life path. In some settlements, people only live until they are 16 years old. Girls give birth while they are still very small. In other settlements, women were found to be going through menopause as early as 28 years old. A meager diet threatens their health; pygmies even die from chickenpox and measles.
To date, the total number of this people has not been established; according to some estimates, there are about 40 thousand, according to others - 200.
For a long time, the pygmies did not even know how to make fire; they carried the hearth with them. They engage in gathering and hunting.
Bushmen
These wild tribes live in Namibia and are also found in Angola, South Africa, Botswana, and Tanzania.
These people are classified as the capoid race, with more fair skin than the blacks. The tongue has many clicking sounds.
The Bushmen lead an almost vagabond lifestyle, constantly half-starved. The system of building a society does not presuppose the presence of leaders, but there are elders who are chosen from among the most intelligent and authoritative individuals in the community. This people does not have a cult of ancestors, but they are very afraid of the dead, so they conduct a unique burial ritual. The diet contains ant larvae, the so-called “Bushman rice”.
Today, most Bushmen work on farms and little adhere to their former way of life.
Zulu
These are the wild tribes of Africa ( southern part). There are believed to be about 10 million Zulus. They speak Zulu, the most common language in South Africa.
Many representatives of this nationality have become adherents of Christianity, but many observe own faith. According to the canons of the Zulu religion, death is the result of witchcraft, and all life on the planet was created by a creator. This people has preserved many traditions; in particular, believers can perform the ritual of ablution about 3 times a day.
The Zulus are quite organized, they even have a king, today it is Goodwill Zwelantini. Each tribe consists of clans, which include even smaller communities. Each of them has its own leader, and in the family this role is played by the husband.
The most expensive rite of wild tribes is marriage. To take a wife, a man will have to give her parents 100 kilograms of sugar, corn and 11 cows. For such gifts you can rent an apartment in the suburbs of Durban, with a gorgeous view of the ocean. That's why there are a lot of bachelors in tribes.
Korowai
Perhaps this is the most brutal tribe in the whole world. These people were discovered only in the 90s of the last century.
The life of the wild tribe is very harsh, they still use the teeth and tusks of animals as weapons and tools. These people pierce their ears and noses with the teeth of predators and live in the impenetrable forests of Papua - New Guinea. They sleep in trees, in huts, very similar to those that many built in childhood. And the forests here are so dense and impenetrable that neighboring villages They don’t even know about another settlement located a few kilometers away.
The pig is considered a holy animal, the meat of which the Korowai eat only after the boar is old. The animal is used as a riding pony. Often a piglet is taken from its mother and raised from childhood.
The women of the wild tribe are common, but sexual intercourse occurs only once a year; on the remaining 364 days it is not allowed to touch them.
The cult of the warrior flourishes among the Korowai. This is very hardy people, for several days in a row they can feed only on larvae and worms. It is believed that they are cannibals, and the first travelers who managed to reach the settlement were simply eaten.
Now that the Korowai have learned about the existence of another society, they do not seek to leave the forests, and everyone who comes here tells a legend that if they deviate from their traditions, there will be a terrible earthquake and the entire planet will perish. Korowai scare away uninvited guests with stories about their bloodthirstiness, although so far there has been no evidence of this.
Maasai
These are real noble warriors African continent. They are engaged in cattle breeding, but never steal livestock from neighbors and lower tribes. These people are able to protect themselves from lions and European conquerors, although in the 21st century the too much pressure of civilization, which is increasingly advancing, has led to the fact that the tribes are rapidly decreasing in number. Now children herd livestock almost from the age of 3, women are responsible for the entire household, and the remaining men mostly relax or fight back against uninvited guests.
It is among these people that they have a tradition of pulling back their earlobes and inserting round objects the size of a good saucer into the lower lip.
Maori
The most bloodthirsty tribes of New Zealand and the Cook Islands. In these places, Maori are the indigenous population.
These people are cannibals who terrified more than one traveler. The path of development of Maori society went in a different direction - from man to animal. The tribes were always located in areas protected by nature itself, additionally carrying out fortification work, creating multi-meter ditches and installing a palisade, on which the dried heads of enemies were always displayed. They are prepared carefully, cleaned of the brain, strengthened the nasal and eye sockets and bulges with special boards and smoked over low heat for about 30 hours.
Wild tribes of Australia
In this country, a fairly large number of tribes have survived, living far from civilization and having interesting customs. For example, the men of the Arunta tribe in an interesting way show respect for each other by giving their wife to a comrade for short term. If the gifted man refuses, then enmity begins between families.
And in one of the tribes of Australia in childhood For boys, the foreskin is cut and the urinary canal is pulled out, thus creating two genital organs.
Amazon Indians
IN tropical forests, according to the most conservative estimates, there are about 50 different wild tribes of Indians.
Pirahu. This is one of the most undeveloped peoples on the planet. There are about 200 people in the settlement, they live in the Brazilian jungle. The Aborigines use the most primitive language on the planet, they have no history or myths, they don’t even have a number system.
Pirahu do not have the right to tell stories that did not happen to them. You cannot enter new words or words heard from other people. The language does not designate animals, vegetation, or flowers.
These people have never been seen to be aggressive; they live in trees and huts. They often act as guides, but do not accept any objects of civilization.
Kayapo tribe. This is one of the wild tribes of the world, which lives in the eastern part of the river basin. Their number is about 3 thousand people. They firmly believe that they are controlled by a man who descended from heaven. Some Kayapo household items really resemble astronaut spacesuits. Despite the fact that the entire village walks around naked, God still appears in clothing and even with a headdress.
Korubo. This people is perhaps the most unstudied of all the tribes in the world that live remote from civilization. All residents are quite aggressive towards any guests. They engage in gathering and hunting, often attacking neighboring tribes. Even women take part in the battles. A distinctive feature of this tribe is that they do not paint themselves or get tattoos, unlike most aborigines.
The life of wild tribes is quite harsh. If a child is born with a cleft palate, he is immediately killed, and this happens quite often. A child is often killed even after he has grown up, if he suddenly falls ill.
The tribe lives in long rooms with several entrances, typical for Indians. Several families live in such houses. Men of this tribe can have several wives.
The most basic problem of all savage tribes is the inexorable expansion of the habitats of civilized man. It is a huge risk that these are practically primitive people will soon disappear, unable to withstand the onslaught of the modern world.
It is believed that there are no less than a hundred “isolated tribes” in the world that still live in the farthest corners of the world. Members of these tribes, who have preserved traditions long left behind by the rest of the world, provide anthropologists with an excellent opportunity to study in detail the paths of development different cultures for many centuries.
10. The Surma People
The Ethiopian Surma tribe avoided contact with Western world for many years. However, they are quite famous in the world due to the huge plates they put on their lips. However, they did not want to hear about any government. While colonization, world wars and the struggle for independence were in full swing around them, the Surma people lived in groups of several hundred people each, and continued to engage in their modest cattle breeding.
The first people who managed to establish contact with the people of Surma were several Russian doctors. They met the tribe in 1980. Because the doctors were white-skinned, the tribe members initially thought they were the living dead. One of the few pieces of equipment that members of the Surma people have adopted into their lives is the AK-47, which they use to protect their livestock.
9. Peruvian tribe discovered by tourists
While wandering in the jungles of Peru, a group of tourists suddenly encountered members of an unknown tribe. The entire incident was captured on film: the tribe tried to communicate with the tourists, but due to the fact that the tribe members did not speak either Spanish or English, they soon despaired of making contact and left the puzzled tourists where they found them.
After studying the tape recorded by the tourists, Peruvian authorities soon realized that the group of tourists had encountered one of the few tribes that had not yet been discovered by anthropologists. Scientists knew about their existence and searched for them without success. for many years, and tourists found them without even looking.
8. Lonely Brazilian
Slate magazine called him "the most isolated person on the planet." Somewhere in the Amazon there is a tribe consisting of only one person. Just like Bigfoot, this one mysterious man disappears just when scientists are about to discover it.
Why is he so popular, and why won’t they leave him alone? It turns out that according to scientists, he is last representative isolated tribe in the Amazon. He the only person in a world that has preserved the customs and language of its people. Communication with him will be tantamount to finding a precious treasure trove of information, part of which is the answer to the question of how he managed to live alone for so many decades.
7. Ramapo Tribe (Ramapough Mountain Indians or The Jackson Whites)
During the 1700s, European settlers completed their colonization of the east coast North America. By this point, every tribe between Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River was added to the catalog famous peoples. As it turned out, all but one were included in the catalogue.
In the 1790s, a previously unknown tribe of Indians emerged from the forest just 56 kilometers from New York. They somehow managed to avoid contact with the settlers, despite some largest battles, such as the Seven Years' War and the War of Independence, which actually took place in their backyards. They became known as the "Jackson Whites" because they had light color skin, and also due to the fact that they were believed to have originated from "Jacks" (a slang word for British).
6. Vietnamese tribe Ruc (Vietnamese Ruc)
During vietnam war There were unprecedented bombings of regions isolated at that time. After one particularly heavy American bombing raid, North Vietnamese soldiers were shocked to see a group of tribesmen emerging from the jungle.
This was the first contact of the Rook tribe with people with advanced technology. Because their jungle home was badly damaged, they decided to stay in modern Vietnam and not return to their home countries. traditional dwellings. However, the values and traditions of the tribe, passed down from generation to generation for many centuries, did not please the Vietnamese government, which led to mutual hostility.
5. The Last of the Native Americans
In 1911, the last Native American untouched by civilization walked calmly out of the woods in California, in full tribal garb - and was promptly arrested by shocked police. His name was Ishi and he was a member of the Yahia tribe.
After questioning by the police, who were able to find a translator from a local college, it was revealed that Ishi was the only survivor of his tribe after his tribe was wiped out by settlers three years earlier. After trying to survive alone using only the gifts of nature, he finally decided to turn to other people for help.
Ishi was taken under the wing of a researcher from Berkeley University. There, Ishi told teaching staff all the secrets of his tribal life, and showed them many survival techniques, using only what nature gave. Many of these techniques were either long forgotten or completely unknown to scientists.
4. Brazilian tribes
The Brazilian government was trying to find out how many people lived in isolated areas of the Amazon lowland in order to add them to the population register. Therefore, government aircraft equipped with photographic equipment regularly flew over the jungle, trying to locate and count the people below it. Tireless flights did indeed produce results, albeit very unexpected ones.
In 2007, an airplane performing a routine low flight in order to obtain photographs was unexpectedly hit by a rain of arrows, which a previously unknown tribe fired at the airplane with bows. Then, in 2011, satellite scanning detected several specks in a corner of the jungle where people were not even expected to be present: as it turned out, the specks were people after all.
3. Tribes of New Guinea
Somewhere in New Guinea there likely remain dozens of languages, cultures and tribal customs that are still unknown. to modern man. However, because the area is largely unexplored, and because the character and intentions of these tribes are uncertain, with frequent reports of cannibalism, the wild part of New Guinea is very rarely explored. Despite the fact that new tribes are often discovered, many expeditions that set out to track down such tribes never reach them, or sometimes simply disappear.
For example, in 1961, Michael Rockefeller set out to find some of the lost tribes. Rockefeller, the American heir to one of the world's largest fortunes, was separated from his group and apparently captured and eaten by members of the flames.
2. The Pintupi Nine
In 1984, an unknown group of Aboriginal people was discovered near a settlement in Western Australia. After they fled, the Pinupian Nine, as they were eventually called, were tracked down by those who spoke their language and told them that there was a place where water flowed from pipes and there was always an ample supply of food. Most of them decided to stay in modern city, several of them became artists working in the style of traditional art. However, one of the nine, named Yari Yari, returned to the Gibson Desert, where he lives to this day.
1. The Sentinelese
The Sentinelese are a tribe of approximately 250 people who live on North Sentinel Island, located between India and Thailand. Almost nothing is known about this tribe, because as soon as the Sentinelese see that someone has sailed to them, they greet the visitor with a hail of arrows.
Several peaceful encounters with this tribe in 1960 have given us almost everything we know about their culture. The coconuts brought to the island as a gift were eaten rather than planted. Live pigs were shot with arrows and buried without being eaten. The most popular items among the Sentinelese were red buckets, which were quickly dismantled by members of the tribe - however, exactly the same green buckets remained in place.
Anyone who wanted to land on their island had to first write their will. The National Geographic team was forced to turn around after the team leader took an arrow to the thigh and two local guides were killed.
The Sentinelese have earned a reputation for their ability to experience natural disasters- unlike many modern people living in similar conditions. For example, this coastal tribe successfully escaped the effects of a tsunami caused by an earthquake that occurred in Indian Ocean in 2004, which wreaked havoc and terror in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
Lives on the banks of the Meikhi River wild tribe Pirahu, numbering about three hundred people. The natives survive by hunting and gathering. The peculiarity of this tribe is their unique language: it contains no words denoting shades of colors, no indirect speech, and also interesting fact, it does not contain numerals (Indians count - one, two and many). They have no legends about the creation of the world, no calendar, but despite all this, the Pirahu people have not been found to have the qualities of reduced intelligence.
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Another known wild tribe of Brazil is the Sinta Larga, numbering about one and a half thousand people. Previously, this tribe lived in the rubber jungle, however, due to their deforestation, the Sinta Larga became a nomadic tribe. The Indians engage in fishing, hunting and farming. There is patriarchy in the tribe, i.e. a man can have several wives. Also, throughout his life, a Cinta Larga man receives several names, depending on individual characteristics or certain events in his life, but there is one special name that is kept secret and only those closest to him know it.
And in the western part of the Amazon River valley lives a very aggressive Korubo tribe. The main occupation of the Indians of this tribe is hunting and raids on neighboring settlements. Moreover, both men and women, armed with poisoned darts and clubs, take part in the raids. There is evidence that cases of cannibalism occur in the Korubo tribe.
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All these tribes are unique find for anthropologists and evolutionists. By studying their life and culture, language, and beliefs, one can better understand all stages of human development. And it is very important to preserve this heritage of history in your in its original form. In Brazil, a special government organization (National Indian Foundation) has been created to deal with the affairs of such tribes. The main task of this organization is to protect these tribes from any interference of modern civilization.
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The people who will be discussed in this article manage to ignore the civilized world and live as if there had never been anyone else in the whole world besides them...
The Sentinelese tribe settled on North Sentinel Island, which is nominally part of India. These people are usually called the same as the island, because no one has any idea what these people call themselves.
In truth, nothing else is really known about them either. After a terrible tsunami hit the island in 2004, several helicopters were sent there to take photographs and make sure that the island was still inhabited. 
How did they manage to avoid contact with modern civilization for so long?
This is explained very simply. Take a look at this photo taken from a helicopter:
The rest of the tribe members are also aggressive. They don’t make contact, and as soon as they do, they immediately grab their bow and arrows.
In 2006, a boat with two fishermen was carried by the current into shallow waters near the island. The Sentinelese killed them and buried them on the shore. The helicopters identified the burial place of the unfortunates, but were unable to land, because at the sight of the helicopter, the local population, as you may have already noticed, immediately “opened fire.” Despite the fact that the natives obviously have no idea what a helicopter is, they persistently tried to reach the strange giant iron bird with their arrows. Well, they don’t like guests and that’s all.
The police, who in theory should go and pick up the bodies of the unfortunate fishermen, flatly refuse to do this, declaring that as soon as they approach the island, they will immediately be bombarded with poisoned darts and arrows - which, in general, can be considered a good reason.
Even our ancestors, who were more courageous than you and me, believed that getting involved with these unsociable people would cost themselves more: Marco Polo described them as “the most cruel and bloodthirsty people, always ready to grab and eat anyone who falls into their hands.”
In other words, for hundreds of years, when the whole world was busy conquering each other's lands, these guys earned such a bad reputation that they discouraged all sorts of conquerors from going there. In the end, all of “progressive humanity” decided to leave these crazy cannibals alone.
2. Korowai
This tribe lives in southeastern Papua. They first learned about the existence of other people in the 1970s, when they were discovered by a group of archaeologists and missionaries. At this time, they still used stone tools and built their dwellings in trees. However, since then, nothing has changed for them, one might say. 
All guests from the civilized world of the Korowai are told that if ever one of them changes their traditions, then the entire Earth will inevitably perish from a monstrous earthquake. It’s not clear whether this is such devotion to tradition, or just a way to get rid of the smart guys from the “mainland” who are always trying to teach them about life.
Be that as it may, they manage to remain in their previous state simply excellent. The missionaries came around a couple of times with their enlightenment, but then decided to leave them alone. What if, who knows, the earthquake isn’t completely nonsense after all?
The Korowai live in such an impenetrable area, literally beyond high mountains and dark forests, that even their own villages have practically no contact with each other, let alone the outside world. When the census service decided to visit the tribe in 2010, they had to travel for two weeks on foot and then by boat from the nearest (and in fact very remote) villages.
The Korowai do not particularly show that they do not like outside visits. And in order for the uninvited guests to get away as quickly as possible, they come up with all sorts of tricks. In addition to scaring people with a terrible, terrible earthquake, which will definitely happen as soon as the first Korowai puts on his pants, they like to scare people by talking about their bloodthirsty traditions.
But the Australian newsmakers who approached the Korowais in 2006 were fooled in the most elegant way. The tribe sent a boy to the annoying strangers, who told reporters a heartbreaking story about how cannibals were chasing him, and that at the next meal he should become the main dish of the tribe.
After the story was recorded on film and the film crew hastily retreated, the next journalists arrived, for whom exactly the same performance was staged with the rescue of the “poor boy.”
Scientists who have studied the tribe assure that these people simply have a good sense of humor and that there is no smell of cannibalism here. Just funny people who live in trees and love pranks.
3. The loneliest man in the world
This man has been living in complete isolation in the Brazilian forest for at least fifteen years.
He builds himself palm huts and digs rectangular holes one and a half meters deep in the ground. Why he needs these holes can only be guessed, because with any attempt to establish contact, he abandons his familiar place and finds a new one in order to build exactly the same hut and dig exactly the same hole.
No one in the area is building anything like this, from which scientists have concluded that this is the last surviving representative of some disappeared tribe.
How has he managed to ignore the modern world for so long?
In 1988, the new Brazilian Constitution granted local Indians rights to their ancestral lands. In theory, the idea seemed simply wonderful. But in practice... When, according to the law, it became prohibited for tribes to be “forced to relocate” to other places, they began to simply be exterminated.
Apparently, this is precisely the fate that befell our hero’s fellow tribesmen: his first meeting with the modern world ended for him with the death of everyone he knew. Who wants to make contact with monsters who have come up with the perfect tools to destroy your family and friends?
4. Old Believers
In 1978, Soviet geologists searching for iron ore deposits in remote parts of Siberia stumbled upon a log cabin. The family that lived there had no idea about the existence of civilization; they dressed in matting and ate from homemade dishes. When they saw the members of the expedition, they were horrified and began shouting something like “This is all for our sins!”
Later it turned out that the Lykov family (as they called themselves) were not the only Siberian hermits. A similar group of people lived in complete isolation in the taiga, at least until 1990.
All these people turned out to be Old Believers. In the 17th century, during the schism of the Russian Church, they fled from the massacre and settled away from the outside world. And they lived like this for several centuries. Siberia is too vast and inhospitable - no one would think of combing it to find a couple of dozen fugitives.
Agafya Lykova, 2009
5. Tribe Mashko-Piro
People from the Mashco-Piro tribe, half naked and generally looking like settlers from the prehistoric era, recently began to appear in the area of one of the Peruvian rivers popular with Western tourists.
Previously, any attempts to approach them were stopped by a hail of burning arrows. No one knows why they suddenly decided to discover their existence on their own. According to the assurances of specialists who have been in contact with them, for now their keenest interest is mainly in metal pots for cooking and machete knives.
How did they manage to stay away from civilization for so long?
The Peruvian government itself tried to limit contacts with the tribe and prohibited tourists from going ashore near the habitats of savages. The idea was to protect these people from annoying anthropologists and greedy businessmen who are ready to make money on anything.
Unfortunately, there were and are still cunning private travel companies offering clients “human safari”.
6. Pintubi Aborigines
In 1984, a small group of people from the Pintubi tribe met a white man in the desert. There would be nothing unusual in this, except for the fact that not a single person from this tribe had ever seen one before white man, and that the first white settlers arrived in Australia in 1788. Later, one of the Pintubi explained that at first he mistook the “pink man” for an evil spirit. The first meeting did not go very smoothly, but then the natives softened and decided that the “pink ones” might even be useful.
Needless to say, they were very lucky to be found so late. They wandered through the deserts all those years when it was easy to fall into slavery or straight to the next world, and met with Western culture exactly when she was already ready to take them for a ride in a jeep and treat them to Coca-Cola.
How did they manage to avoid civilization for so long?
There are two reasons for this: 1) they are nomads and 2) they roam the deserts of Australia, where it is generally quite difficult to meet people.
This group might never have been discovered. Shortly before their first meeting with the white man, the Pintubi accidentally met with the “civilized” aborigines. Unfortunately, the appearance of the nomads with loincloths made of human hair and two-meter spears was too exotic even for indigenous Australians. One of the “civilized” ones fired into the air and the Pintubi ran away.
