Some Knowledge

Yahoo News reported this morning that a new tribe has been found near the border of Peru and Brazil in the Amazon jungle.  This tribe has not been previously contacted and appears to be a new find.  It is estimated that there may be as many as 100 such tribes scattered around the world, most of them in the Amazon region.

The Yahoo site has pictures taken from the air of the tribe.  As yet, no expeditions to the region have been reported.  I imagine anthropologists will want to make contact with this tribe to study their culture.  It is feared that the first modern people to make contact with these tribes will be loggers, and there is the possibility that the new tribe will be wiped out before they can be contacted.

In this day and age with so many modern conveniences it is pretty amazing that there are still people living a stone age lifestyle.  I find it interesting that these people haven’t been found before this, even with all the satellites in orbit taking detailed pictures of the earth.  Perhaps people will learn from the mistakes of the past and treat these survivors from a different age with respect and learn from them.  It would be cool if somebody made a TV show about contacting these peoples.  It would also be cool if this tribe got a website and posted stories of their day to day lives.