Un-Contacted Amazonian Tribe Cooks with Fire

[L. Coyote]

and the really like turtle eggs. The Yine tribe has about 150 members.
One of their camps was found. They live on the Las Piedras river
in the Madre de Dios department of Peru. When I lived there (60's-70's)
several anthropologist had gone into this area to make contact,
never to return per what I last heard before returning to the USA.

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Indígenas no contactados cocinan alimentos con fuego
Vie, 11/09/2009 - http://www.larepublica.pe/sociedad/11/09/2009/indigenas-no-contactados-de-selva-peruana-cocinan-alimentos-con-fuego


Una tribu de indígenas no contactados que habitan remotos parajes de la selva peruana cocina sus alimentos con fuego y tiene predilección por los huevos de tortuga, según dijeron expertos que hallaron rastros de ese pueblo.

Se trata de un grupo de nómadas de la tribu Yine conformada por unas 150 personas y que habita cerca del río Las Piedras, en la región de Madre de Dios, dijeron el antropólogo Américo Baca y el especialista en asuntos Indígenas Hildebrando Ruffner, del gubernamental Instituto Nacional de Pueblos Andinos, Amazónicos y Afroperuanos (Indepa).

[JonQ]

1. That's not so impressive

I've been cooking with fire for a while now.

[L. Coyote]

2. But how do you start your fire?

I'm betting these people work a little harder to start a fire.

[JonQ]

3. I summon lightening when I need it

by sacrificing a virgin to Thor.

[BlooInBloo]

5. Waste of a perfectly good virgin. Should invest in a lighter.

[architect359]

8. ...and you almost made me spew my coffee! Thanks for the LOL. n/t

[Thor_MN]

9. Shipments must be getting lost in transit. Your bill is past due.

[laconicsax]

4. Why wouldn't they?

There's evidence that Homo erectus mastered the use of fire as early as 1.5 million years ago. It stands to reason that the sub-population of erectus that gave rise to H. sapiens would have possessed this skill, meaning that populations of H. sapiens would have always known how to use fire.

[Odin2005]

6. OMG, people cook! What an amazing discovery!

:rofl:

[laconicsax]

7. Even more amazing is that they don't have matches!

How is that possible?