Topic: North Sentinel Island
Anonymous A started this discussion 1 year ago #120,428
There are two villages on the island. They do not farm and barely raise animals. They are basically hunters and gatherers. They do not even make fire. They wait until lightening strikes a tree, then collect that fire and use it as long as they can. Even so, they have been there for 60,000 years and are still there doing fine.
boof joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 9 minutes later[^] [v] #1,318,391
they might be free of cock germs. do they fuck at will over there? or is it chimpy where one fucker beats back the others and gets fuck dibs
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 1 year ago, 34 seconds later, 9 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,318,392
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,318,407
I had a drunken not-so-deep dive into low contact tribes and it seems like it always goes to shit once we give them internet or jesus. My favorite was the computer install in town and now there's endemic 'cranking it' problem.
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 20 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,318,408
Funny as fuck when they killed that Yank who was trying to convert them to Christianity.
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 5 hours later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,318,422
@previous (D)
Has family was very religious but then he had joined a church so religious that it made his family very worried
They set up a mock village where they pretended to be Natives with spears and he fought them off. In his diary he wrote that the tribal island was one of Satans last strongholds in the world
Has family was very religious but then he had joined a church so religious that it made his family very worried
They set up a mock village where they pretended to be Natives with spears and he fought them off. In his diary he wrote that the tribal island was one of Satans last strongholds in the world
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boof replied with this 1 year ago, 2 hours later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,318,440
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 10 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,318,441
@1,318,408 (D)
> Funny as fuck when they killed that Yank who was trying to convert them to Christianity.
They probably had him for dinner.
Shooting arrows at helicopters made me laff.
> Funny as fuck when they killed that Yank who was trying to convert them to Christianity.
They probably had him for dinner.
Shooting arrows at helicopters made me laff.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 1 year ago, 21 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,318,443
@previous (F)
They buried him in the beach sand. They have been contacted twice. The second time, some people took some of their people to "the mainland" and they contracted deadly diseases and died.
They buried him in the beach sand. They have been contacted twice. The second time, some people took some of their people to "the mainland" and they contracted deadly diseases and died.
tteh !MemesToDNA joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 5 hours later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,318,556
> They do not even make fire. They wait until lightening strikes a tree, then collect that fire and use it as long as they can.
Even though every documentary and article repeats this, it's just speculation. The claim "they can't make fire; they wait for lightning and tend to the embers" is attributed to one anthropologist, Triloknath Pandit, who visited in 1967 and again in 1991. In '67 he didn't interact with any islanders (they hid) and in '91 he didn't even leave his boat/dinghy. His claim is only speculative, based on an earlier report from a British explorer in the 1880s which described unrelated Andaman islanders using this method.
The 1771 sighting of North Sentinel by an East India Company ship saw fires on the beach, and the 1967 expedition reported fires in huts and signs of cooking. Hard to imagine they were utterly dependent on lightning. It was once thought that Tasmanian Aborigines couldn't start fires either and relied on spontaneous bushfires, but that was also wrong.
Even though every documentary and article repeats this, it's just speculation. The claim "they can't make fire; they wait for lightning and tend to the embers" is attributed to one anthropologist, Triloknath Pandit, who visited in 1967 and again in 1991. In '67 he didn't interact with any islanders (they hid) and in '91 he didn't even leave his boat/dinghy. His claim is only speculative, based on an earlier report from a British explorer in the 1880s which described unrelated Andaman islanders using this method.
The 1771 sighting of North Sentinel by an East India Company ship saw fires on the beach, and the 1967 expedition reported fires in huts and signs of cooking. Hard to imagine they were utterly dependent on lightning. It was once thought that Tasmanian Aborigines couldn't start fires either and relied on spontaneous bushfires, but that was also wrong.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 1 year ago, 5 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,318,560
Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 5 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,318,565
@1,318,556 (tteh !MemesToDNA)
What do you think of my amazing idea to send a sturdy robot dog into the island, and use drones to zip through the villages and get decent footage?
What do you think of my amazing idea to send a sturdy robot dog into the island, and use drones to zip through the villages and get decent footage?
tteh !MemesToDNA replied with this 1 year ago, 22 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,318,576
@1,318,560 (A)
Their language is what fascinates me. Nothing is known about it at all. It's presumed to be related to neighbouring languages, but when tribespeople were kidnapped in the 1800s they couldn't understand Jarawa (the closest language geographically) nor could the tribespeople be understood. Later visits to the island's shores included speakers of Onge (spoken on an island to the south of North Sentinel) but the same issue apparently arose.
It's bizarre to think their language might have diverged beyond any level of mutual intelligibility (assuming it belongs to the same language family; maybe it doesn't, but that would be even weirder).
Their language is what fascinates me. Nothing is known about it at all. It's presumed to be related to neighbouring languages, but when tribespeople were kidnapped in the 1800s they couldn't understand Jarawa (the closest language geographically) nor could the tribespeople be understood. Later visits to the island's shores included speakers of Onge (spoken on an island to the south of North Sentinel) but the same issue apparently arose.
It's bizarre to think their language might have diverged beyond any level of mutual intelligibility (assuming it belongs to the same language family; maybe it doesn't, but that would be even weirder).
tteh !MemesToDNA double-posted this 1 year ago, 3 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,318,577
@1,318,565 (H)
lol, I've often wondered why no YouTuber has sent a drone or two yet. Sure it's illegal but it'd make grate content.
lol, I've often wondered why no YouTuber has sent a drone or two yet. Sure it's illegal but it'd make grate content.
Anonymous H replied with this 1 year ago, 4 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,318,579
@previous (tteh !MemesToDNA)
I bet that some clever person could fly a number of them in at night and record people talking, and use it to document and decipher the language. Just park them on trees or something.
I bet that some clever person could fly a number of them in at night and record people talking, and use it to document and decipher the language. Just park them on trees or something.
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Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 1 year ago, 3 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,318,584
@1,318,576 (tteh !MemesToDNA)
It’s likely just evolved after so long. Even today, South Koreans and North are finding it increasingly difficult to understand one another. It happens.
It’s likely just evolved after so long. Even today, South Koreans and North are finding it increasingly difficult to understand one another. It happens.
Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 1 hour later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,318,596
The Sentinalese are known to practice prolific incest.
The Indian government has a police of unconstitutional electoral disenfranchisement of the people there.
Two facts that are oft overlooked, but surely shape the culture.
The Indian government has a police of unconstitutional electoral disenfranchisement of the people there.
Two facts that are oft overlooked, but surely shape the culture.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 1 year ago, 44 seconds later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,318,597
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Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 1 year ago, 22 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,318,601
@previous (I)
Two villages could mean two distinct families that mate with the other instead of in their own.
Two villages could mean two distinct families that mate with the other instead of in their own.
Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 1 hour later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,318,633
@1,318,599 (I)
That's it? Let's just drop them in San Francisco and be done with it. We can build condos or something on the island with our new score.
That's it? Let's just drop them in San Francisco and be done with it. We can build condos or something on the island with our new score.
Anonymous I replied with this 1 year ago, 38 minutes later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,318,636
@1,318,601 (A)
That would still mean marrying a cousin or closer.
@previous (J)
Beaurocrats would drag it out, invest in indonesia or eastern poland instead
That would still mean marrying a cousin or closer.
@previous (J)
Beaurocrats would drag it out, invest in indonesia or eastern poland instead
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boof replied with this 1 year ago, 1 hour later, 23 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,318,668
I have no desire to involve my cock over there