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Savannah - The Hadza (in Progress)

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The Hadza of Tanzania are the world’s last full-time hunter-gatherers. They live on what they find: game, honey, and plants, including tubers, berries, and baobab fruit.
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  • A young Hadza hunter surveys the Yaeda Valley. The Hadza of Tanzania are the world’s last full-time hunter-gatherers. They live on what they find: game, honey, and plants, including tubers, berries, and baobab fruit.
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  • Not your average safari. Kapala, looking for lunch with his bow and arrow in the African savannah.
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  • Hunting for games. They spotted a bush baby.
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  • The day’s spoil includes a bush baby.
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  • For some cultures, eating off the land is - and always has been - a way of life. Returning home with an Hyrax.
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  • Young Hadza man.
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  • Eating a bush baby, hunted by arrow and cooked on the fire.
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  • For the Hadza of Tanzania, honey is an essential, concentrated energy source as well as a tasty treat. Foragers find honey by following honey guides, birds that track bees to their tree-trunk nests. Then they light small logs or bundles of brush to make smoke to lull the bees, allowing foragers to get away with the honeycomb.
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  • Mokoa smoking a beehive.
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  • Honey is the Hadza's favourite food. And it has played an essential role in human evolution. Honey is energy dense and in the wild it is packed with bee larvae, which is full of fat and protein.
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  • Ngosha bites into a honeycomb full of larvae.
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  • Hadza stung on the tongue by bees.
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  • Honey for stingless bees is easier to get.
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  • Women eating honey comb after men collected honey from a beehive of killerbees, by smoking the bees to pacify them.
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  • On the way to collecting tubers, a staple food of the Hadza and the women's work.
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  • Women collecting tubers, a staple food of the Hadza.
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  • Hunting giraffe in the Gideru mountains.
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  • Climbing a baobab tree to get its fruits and make a drink extremely rich in Vitamin C.
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  • Finding bird's eggs. Eggs are not taken yet… a hunter will hide until the mother bird comes back. The hunter then hopes to hunt her and get the eggs as well.
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  • Hadza teenagers tracking a warthog.
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  • Young Hadza man straightening his arrow.
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  • View towards Eyasi lake. Hadzaland landscape.
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  • A band of men going hunting in the morning.
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  • Mno cooking a Hyrax on the fire, after a successful hunt in the Gideru mountains.
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  • An old Hadza camp - all that is left behing is this house structure made of branches. It will eventually collapse.
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  • A hadza home, shaped like an upside down nest.
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  • Cooking tubers inside a Hadza home.
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  • Mokoa ready to go on his daily morning hunt.
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  • A Hadza man smokes marijuana rolled in newspaper and traded against honey.
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  • Preparing an arrow.
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  • Different type of arrows, including poisoned arrows (second left).
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  • Hunting for small game near camp.
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  • Hunter and young Hadza girl going in the savannah.
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  • Wande and her husband, Mokoa, set out to find food. She uses a bladetipped stick to dig tubers, a staple food especially in the rainy season. He brings an ax to extract honeycomb from tree trunks and a bow and arrows for hunting and defense.
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  • Holding a chirping chick in his mouth, a Hadza boy has his hands free to shoot his arrow at the alarmed mother bird.
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  • The Hadza boy then placed the chick on his head, to have his hands free to shoot his arrow at the alarmed mother bird. Life in the African savannah can be ruthless.
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  • After a missed shot at wild game, Kapala, a Hadza teenager, pulls out his arrow of an acacia tree.
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  • Young Makungu hunting birds at sunset.
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