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Saturday, September 20, 2014

Tanzania's Hadza people who have lived a life unchanged for 10,000 years

 In the morning the boys and men gather in a circle to sharpen their homemade spears and smoke tobacco through a pipe - this is the most social part of their day
Africa's Hadza tribe is world's last hunter-gathering community living in the wilds of Tanzania
The Hadza are hugely skilled with their handmade bow and arrow - we have a go and barely get the arrow to go three feet in front of us
The tribe hunts baboons, birds, antelope and buffalo with hand-made bows and arrows
Hunters head out for the day wearing baboon skin wraps - they must earn the right to wear these by proving themselves to be a capable hunter
There are about 1,000 Hadza living in caves around Lake Eyasi in Africa's Great Rift Valley

The tribe has lived the same way, unencumbered by the outside world, for 10,000 years

Their language, rhythmic and punctuated by clicks, is believed to be the oldest still spoken

On the banks of Tanzania's Lake Eyasi, in the north of the country, lives the world's last hunter-gatherer tribe

They don't grow food, raise livestock or build permanent shelter. Instead they live a life unchanged for more than 10-thousand years

Their world is one of ultimate freedom - something modern society can barely imagine and is unlikely to ever experience

 Let alone have the skills in which to stay alive

Text messages and phone calls don't exist. Nor cars and electricity

 No jobs, bosses, timetables, social or religious structures

No laws, taxes and incredibly, no money - the closest thing to currency is the occasional trade for a pair of shorts or sandals with a neighbouring tribe.

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