From the blog: “The Jarawa are one of the few Afro-Asian peoples living in the Andaman Islands in India. They are pygmies. They lead a life of hunter-gatherers, and they’ve lived in total isolation for tens of thousands of years. The Jarawas are the last descendants of the first modern humans who left Africa to explore the world, 60,000 years ago. Their present numbers are estimated at 420 individuals. They live in small groups of about fifty individuals. They are semi-nomadic. Their diet is mainly wild pigs, turtles and crabs or fish they fish with bows and arrows in coral reefs. They also collect fruits, roots, tubers and honey. Very little about the history of the Jarawa are known. Their hostility to the outside world has preserved them but hardly anyone has been able to study their culture and language.”