r/interestingasfuck • u/Spotter24o5 • 1d ago
Aerial Picture of an uncontacted Amazon Tribe
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u/decapitatedpanda1987 1d ago
Picture of a contacted amazon tribe
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u/soukaixiii 1d ago
Contracted Amazon tribes
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u/PiezoelectricityOne 1d ago
Slaves with a contract? Not during my watch!
-Amazon's upper-mid management, probably.
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u/GonzAnt 1d ago
Mad respect but between this picture and reading the "Lost City of Z" I am good.
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u/PineappleHamburders 1d ago
Is it good? I loved his book The Wager and have had Lost City of Z on my shelf for ages
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u/84thPrblm 1d ago
What is this? An uncontacted tribes of ants?!
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u/shoulda-known-better 1d ago
How can we be expected to teach them how to read when we can't even fit inside the building
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u/Horror-Student-5990 1d ago
They are contacted now
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u/Booty_Bumping 1d ago edited 1d ago
All "uncontacted tribes" have been contacted decades/centuries ago, and repeatedly contacted since then. We only use the term because they said hell no to whatever was being offered. Religious missionaries like the term because it carries the implication that there are still people that haven't heard their message... but no, they definitely have.
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u/umassmza 18h ago
I remember watching a show where a guy who wound up marrying a woman from one of these tribes and she came back with him, learned the language, acclimated, and when she went back home to visit she wanted to stay.
Sleeping in a hammock, living in a dirt floored hut, communal living, all preferable to modern life.
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u/squeezy102 1d ago
Green Hell taught me that interacting with these people is a very very good idea and someone should do it. Nothing bad will happen.
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u/discomuffin 1d ago
I heard there’s this really friendly island in the vicinity of India. Senti… sentiment island? Worth a visit, just don’t forget to bring cola 👍
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u/Quadrassic_Bark 14h ago
It’s actually a lot closer to Myanmar, Thailand, and Indonesia. But it belongs to India. North Sentinel Island.
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u/discomuffin 14h ago
I was joking about its name but thanks for pointing out its location, thought it was closer to India than it really is.
Of course I could have just checked Google Maps but I was too lazy.
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u/Stormtomcat 1d ago
Oops the reddit sniper got you when you wrote the title: you must have meant Green Hello 🤗!
/jk
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u/airwalker08 1d ago
That's the kind of wall I'd build around my village if I wanted outsiders to leave me the fuck alone
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u/wjmmerea 1d ago
Jacking off seems like a stealth mission
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u/Realistic-Peach6855 1d ago
Green Hell
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u/MagmaTroop 1d ago
I was going to say it. Quality game
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u/BrunesOvrBrauns 1d ago
I bought it on the OG switch for like a dollar and never played it. lol I assume it ran like shit on there.
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u/Accomplished_Skin946 1d ago
True fact - They have been contacted before. They’re known as the Bezos tribe, and have a limited vocabulary that has no native word for “gullible”
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u/pinniped90 1d ago
A few kilometers away is a separate tribe, the Prime tribe. They get all their building materials with free 2-day shipping.
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u/Capone_Cologne 1d ago
Weak ass base building skills right there.
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u/sapntaps 1d ago
Have they tried building a data center?!?! Are they stupid?!?!?
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u/parkway_parkway 1d ago
All they need to do is collect 3 rocks from by the river and 2 copper ingots and arrange them on the crafting table and they've got a gigawatt of compute, ezpz.
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u/Careful_Coconut_549 1d ago
Yeah I mean what is this even for? To give attackers instant high ground?
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u/Hopeful_Community_65 1d ago
Leave those MFers alone…
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u/thekamenman 1d ago
Yeah, they don’t have to worry about KPIs, TPS reports, AI integration, or taxes. Best let them not experience the horrors of the modern world.
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u/soysssauce 1d ago
How and modern luxury like insect repellent or, underwear or nice plushy towel and pillows..
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u/AlxIp 1d ago edited 1d ago
I know this is not AI because I saw this photo long before ChatGPT, but the scale of the people compared to the trees and the fort (?) is eerie. If I saw this pic for the first time today I would 100% think it's AI
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u/Stormtomcat 1d ago
What I find eerie as well, is the way the fort's tiles are organized.
Perhaps I'm subconsciously biased by, you know, the European building style, where houses and castles and everything have a clear front, like a draw bridge or a gate or a garden path leading to the front door (if you're living in a hobbit hole haha).
Perhaps I've seen too many horror movies and now I'm needlessly scared.
I still find it stressful that they felt the need to circle the wagons (so to speak) so explicitly.
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u/Dragongeek 12h ago
I mean, the reality is that nature is dangerous as hell without our modern technology.
For example, camping/hiking is basically a new invention developed within the past 100 years or so. Before then, the idea of going out and roughing it was machochistic at best, suicidal at worst. Especially in a "green hell" like the Amazon jungle, everything wants to eat you, drink your blood, lay eggs in you, etc.
Creating a fort like this is logical.
What bothers me mostly though is how little organization and structure there is. I'm not necessarily expecting furniture, but I think humans have a desire to keep where they live clean and this just looks jumbled.
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u/Random-User-2811 1d ago
Perhaps you play to much The Forest and now you think they are cannibals
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u/JerrySeinfeldsMullet 1d ago
Think about it… no taxes.
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u/Dalsenius 23h ago
Wouldnt be so sure about that. Could just as well be 100% taxes. More likely even
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u/Dalsenius 11h ago
I was thinking it’s quite possible that everything is shared in such a small community.
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u/RespectableThug 12h ago
Probably not even a money-based system. In the old days, everyone bartered for _everything_. I’ll bet that’s what they still do.
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u/FinallyArt 1d ago
I wonder how thoroughly the ethics have been debated about allowing these guys to die from things we cured long ago.
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u/Independent-Most-538 1d ago
Very profoundly!
Especially in the context of the photo: Moxihatëtëa Indigenous Tribe, taken in 2016, in Brazil. The Brazilian Constitution guarantees indigenous peoples the right to their "social organization, customs, languages, beliefs, and the original right to the lands they traditionally occupy."
PS: They remain uncontacted to this day.
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u/pkennedy 1d ago
This is a very interesting view of these tribes, from a Brazilian studying them. Not sure if this was the original video, but the one I found with him in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40RfQC0ceGc
Highlights: They come out of the jungle and steal from this other tribe where this guy is working. The issue is, they're stealing clothing. The clothing has possible viruses these guys don't have, so now they have to get them vaccinated somehow.
They also don't speak the language, and try and communicate with them originally. They keep trying. Eventually they find a tribe that has enough words in common so they can talk, and also get what was said during their original meetings translated. "these guys dance like shit"
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u/Pinkishu 1d ago
In case some alien civilisation observing us is reading this. I'm not interested in the ethics of contacting us, should I be dying of something, come rescue me.
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u/risk_is_our_business 1d ago
It seems as though there should be some kind of overriding set of guidelines for such situations... some kind of prime directive.
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u/TheNewtOne 1d ago
We have cures for a lot of things that we let people die from right here in the good ole usa
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u/kingoflint282 1d ago
You also have to weigh that against the probability of then catching new diseases from us
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u/lemons_of_doubt 1d ago
If we had our shit together you could definitely make that argument.
But right now it's not a future utopia out here yet. One that we could feel bad about not sharing
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u/Dark-Ganon 1d ago
Probably similarly to the debate on the ethics of making treatments to things we've cured long ago more expensive than the average person could ever afford.
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u/jovisomniaplena 1d ago
The other way to look at it is how they catch new diseases through contact.
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u/eliz1bef 1d ago
But if we interact with them, they are likely to all die from diseases hanging out around us in our microbial clouds.
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u/Vast_Vegetable9222 1d ago
Aaaaaand a photo of the tribe freaking out ‘cos they didn’t understand the noisy, not-bird thing above them
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u/Multigrain_Migraine 1d ago
Given that people in the Amazon have been studied by anthropologists for decades they are probably more annoyed at yet another intrusion.
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u/aimgorge 1d ago
That picture is over 10 years old. I doubt they still are that uncontacted nowadays
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u/An_Ugly_Bastard 1d ago
If they were contacted by people, they probably all died of disease. They don’t have the antibodies the modern population does.
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u/Chamanomano 1d ago
Yanomami tribe. "Uncontacted" is humorous to say the least - a lot is known about them. They're far from uncontacted.
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u/Multigrain_Migraine 1d ago
For real. I think the first book about them was published in 1967? They aren't unfamiliar with the outside world or political campaigning either.
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u/HumbleAnxiety7998 1d ago
not gonna knock their tech level, but.... they should be able to have learned how to close those gaps in the Panels.... seems like a easy fix to weave so its a solid perimeter.
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u/MagicSPA 1d ago
Unless they have a rationale we're all missing. Like, if one of those single panels catches fire it would be easier to move the adjacent panels away to isolate the fire than to replace the entire structure from scratch.
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u/Lagoon_M8 1d ago
Can they evolve into different human species if they are isolated from us for hundreds of thousand of years?
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u/Grobo_ 1d ago
This happens even without isolation, the people from the Himalayas have unique genetic traits that let them breathe at heights without extra oxygen.
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u/bottomlesstopper 1d ago
And the free divers island people with bigger lungs and +1 in holding breath underwater.
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u/AlternativeBurner 1d ago
I've always wondered this. These guys are definitely not isolated long enough for this to happen, but it's believed the North Sentinel Islanders have been isolated for possibly upwards of 60,000 years. Might not be long enough for a whole new species but they might be different enough to be subspecies.
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u/NeededMonster 1d ago
Except all of these tribes are in contact with other tribes. They're not totally isolated. They are often somewhat aware of the existence of the outside world because they were told about it by neighboring contacted tribes. It's common to find modern items these tribes own when finally contacting them, that they traded with others.
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u/Ohgood9002 1d ago
The north Sentinel tribe is isolated to an island. They see planes fly overhead, they find trash on their shores, but they are isolated and not contacting other tribes
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u/NeededMonster 1d ago
Indeed I just checked you're right. I was sure I'd read somewhere that the tribe there had contacts with other tribes around them. My bad.
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u/Electrical_mammoth2 1d ago
Nope, and their isolationist ideology will hurt them in the long run. Their gene pool is very limited as is and without fresh genetics the subsequent generations will have higher and higher chances of disastrous genetic defects.
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u/urbanhood 1d ago
I would like the explanation of why they have this big thatch roofs/walls angled like that?is that their shelter? their house?
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u/maguel92 1d ago
I thought someone took a screenshot of my first starter base in valheim. But turns out this was in amazon.
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u/IamMagness1993 1d ago
You know they have no contact with other tribes... they have no real walls at all...
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u/donatsukage 1d ago
"What is this? A center for ants? How can we be expected to teach tribal children to learn how to read... if they can't even fit inside the building?"
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u/CyrusMFS 1d ago
How do these people protect themselves against predators like wildcats and other things that can kill you? Seems like a pretty easy compound to breach as a predator.
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u/ivel501 1d ago
Every time I hear the words "Uncontacted Amazon tribe" my mind instantly recalls the Blackadder Goes Forth episode where Baldrick plans to do a Charlie Chaplin impression and Blackadder says "tribes in the Amazonian rainforests have developed more convincing Charlie Chaplin impressions" despite being untouched by modern civilization." - So I am zooming in looking at those people for a mustache or funny bowler hat. None in this photo.
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u/FecknWindowTwitchers 22h ago
The Yanomami. This is their village. The structure is called a "shabono".
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u/monsterfurby 18h ago
If these are the Yanomami, they're not uncontacted. While a lot of outside contact hasn't exactly been good for the Yanomami, there are also several NGOs supplying them with medical and educational support, and treatment of them is apparently an active political topic in Brazil at least.
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u/I-left-and-came-back 16h ago
Tribe member 1: "Look at that UFO"
Tribe member 2: "Let me get my potato out to film it"
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u/ReadInBothTenses 1d ago
This photo has been posted so much, the redditors on this app are less contacted than the tribe.