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National Geographic “The Hadza”

They grow no food, raise no livestock, and live without rules or calendars. They are living a hunter-gatherer existence that is little changed from 10,000 years ago. What do they know that we’ve forgotten?

By Michael Finkel

Photograph by Martin Schoeller

Read the article and see more photos here.

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Director's Statement

Excerpted from the Director’s Statement found in the downloadable press kit

here

. In the summer of 2004, I went on safari for the first time, to the Serengeti in Northern Tanzania. It wasn’t the "Big Five" animals, as magnificent as they were, that most struck us, nor was it the vast and stunning plains of East Africa. No, what made the most profound impression on us was seeing and being with a very small tribe of nomadic hunter-gatherer-foragers called the Hadza. We spent two days out with the Hadza, in a "fly camp" up in the mountains overlooking Lake Eyasi, just south of the Ngorongoro Crater, where mankind first walked upright.