hadzabe'e hunter, tanzania

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hadzabe'e hunter, tanzania

A portrait of one of the Hadzabe Tribe that took us hunting. It really was like coming face to face with stone age man, the tribe had very little possessions, skins, bows/arrows, axes, the odd piece of western clothing and that was it.

We arrived in the dark at there camp at 5.30 am, the women were in small dome sized huts made from vegetation and the boys were living in a cave in the rocks above camp. They live a hand to mouth existence, hunting and gathering and firing arrows at anything that moves. Sadly the morning we went hunting they caught nothing, we blame our clumsiness following them through the bush.

The Hadza people, or Hadzabe'e, are an ethnic group in north-central Tanzania, living around Lake Eyasi in the central Rift Valley and in the neighboring Serengeti Plateau. The Hadza number just under 1000. Some 300400 Hadza live as hunter-gatherers, much as their ancestors have for thousands or even tens of thousands of years; they are the last full-time hunter-gatherers in Africa.

The Hadza are not closely related to any other people. While traditionally considered an East African branch of the Khoisan peoples, primarily because their language has clicks, modern genetic research suggests that they may be more closely related to the Pygmies. The Hadza language appears to be an isolate, unrelated to any other.

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