Why Does My Rabbit Run In Circles?

Ten thousand years in just a few kilometers

Tanzania, Lake Eyasi, August 2010

Near the great parks of Tanzania, between the Serengeti and Ngorongoro, and precisely in the Olduvai Gorge, was found the skeleton of the oldest hominid in the world. She was a woman and was called Lucy. A few miles from that site, a tribe, which is considered the most direct descendant of those hominids. This is the tribe of the Hadzabe.
The Hadzabe are Bushmen who live around the lake Eyasi, but the style of life of their primitive ancestors. Are hunters and gatherers. Do not breed any animals and not cultivating the land. They live only along the shores of the lake, moving from side to side whenever the area is too poor to meet their needs.

Tanzania, Lake Eyasi, August 2010

hunt with bow and arrows, decorated with feathers. Hannno variety of tips for their weapons. The simplest is a reed arrow pointed: to teach kids to archery and small game. Then they pointed increasingly large, up to one for large animals, which, in addition to being large, is also poisoned with the juice of a plant.

Tanzania, Lake Eyasi, August 2010

Their diet consists of any type of animal hunted, except snakes and hyenas. In their belief, snakes and hyenas are unclean animals, as they eat the bodies. For this reason, avoid hunting them and eating them.
Women, by contrast, provide food gathering berries and roots from the earth. Unfortunately, the area is absolutely full of vegetation. In August, during the dry season, plants are sparse and difficult issues.

Tanzania, Lake Eyasi, August 2010

A big problem is to get the ' water. Eyasi The lake is a salt lake and during the dry season dries up almost completely. The water then is collected mainly during the rains or derived from plants. Often the water they drink is clean and this exposes the most vulnerable to the risk of many serious diseases. During our visit, in fact, the more welcome gift than we could bring them were bottles of mineral water, that the children had been drunk with greed.
Even their language is unique: their language, perhaps the oldest in the world, is made of clicks, whistles and clicks.
Hadzabe During the night's sleep on a skin in the bushes, next to a fire lit by rotating a stick in his hands, just like 10,000 years ago.

Tanzania, Lake Eyasi, August 2010

Tanzania, Lake Eyasi, August 2010

If you need repairs, use of the caves, probably the same ones that have been used since prehistoric times. The number of Hadzabe
unfortunately is falling steadily, and today their population is about 1500 people. The land set aside for them around the lake is less and less and they are suffering from serious diseases, mainly due to their nutrition and clean water is not the raw meat.
meeting was for me a moment unique, an incredible opportunity to know a people, perhaps the last of the earth, who now lives as they lived 10,000 years ago.

Tanzania, Lake Eyasi, August 2010