Sentinels Tribe
Sentinels Tribe
The Sentinels did not let their guard down, continuing to deny any contact with foreigners. For this reason, they represent one of the last populations on the planet untouched by modern civilization.
The sentinel civilization is technologically within the category of the stone age. Sentinels are the only population on Earth to maintain a paleolithic lifestyle, their livelihood depending on harvesting, hunting, and fishing. According to some reports, they can clean coconuts with their teeth and fish with spears and bows with arrows. These tools are also used to hunt wild boars, turtles, and snails living on the island. Agriculture, on the other hand, is foreign to them.
Also, the Sentinels have built canoes that they use to move in shallow waters near the shore, but they are not equipped with rows. The propulsion is realized by pushing with poles. The sentinels use the fire, which they hide and guard with great strain because they do not know how to obtain it. Their language is unique in the world and does not even resemble those spoken in the rest of the Andaman archipelago. Beyond this, nothing is known about sentinel.
North Sentinel’s population is estimated to be somewhere between 50 and 400 people. An exact number cannot be obtained because the sentinels are not friendly to visitors. Moreover, the 2001 census was carried out from a distance by the representatives of the Indian government, of which the island belongs. The official results counted 39 people (21 men and 18 women), but the authorities acknowledge that they do not represent an exact measurement of the population of the island that covers 72 square kilometers.
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