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NEWS > EVERYONE ELSE > LAST MEMBER OF WORLD’S EARLIEST TRIBE FINALLY DIES
LAST MEMBER OF WORLD’S EARLIEST TRIBE FINALLY DIES
April 4 2010
Port Blair, Andaman Islands – Our earliest days remain, despite the best efforts of archaeologists, very much a mystery. It was in fact only in 2003 that scientists uncovered the remains of Homo Floresiensis, one of our most recent ancestors which
likely went extinct only 13,000 years ago. Still, science is slowly developing a picture of humanity’s rise to dominance on this planet, a search that may ultimately lead us to understand why we are such a unique example on this incredibly diverse place we call Earth.
One living example of our ancient past were the Bo people who once inhabited the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. The Bo were one of the great tribes of that region who migrated from Africa approximately 70,000 years ago and eventually inhabited the islands about 5000 years later while other tribes eventually populated Indonesia and Australia. Now the last member of that ancient tribe, a true link to our mysterious past, has died taking with her all the secrets her people may have held. Boa Sr. was the last living member of that ancient tribe and her death closes the chapter on one the clearest examples of early human migration and the spread of our people throughout the world. While some mourn the loss of the tribe, the culture, and the languages, others are happy to see her go so that we can finally get on with our lives.
“With the death of Boa Sr and the extinction of the Bo language, a unique part of human society is now just a memory. Boa’s loss is a bleak reminder that we must not allow this to happen to the other tribes of the Andaman Islands,” said Stephen Corry, director of Survival International to the Daily Mail. “It is important to keep alive this connection to the past, not as a part of scientific study but also as a way to understand just how far we truly have come. By having these people who cannot survive on their own and who frequently run into issues with modern society we are reminded just how precious and remarkable we are as species and how important we truly are.”
Others though are less impressed with the notion of keeping such archaic tribes around.
“The reality is many of these tribes do nothing to advance human society any more.
They did at one point, they were truly pioneers at one stage, but then they simply stopped. They are the antithesis of human evolution in so many ways and only by shedding them can we truly move forward as a species,” said Archaeologist David Cobber. “Sure, they are find as a curiosity but as a living, breathing representation of our past they are pretty lame. They broke free, went against the grain, and then found a nice island and took in the sun for 60,000 years. That is hardly the best representation of human evolution.”
Many of the inhabitants of the, including Boa Sr. before her death, relied on government assistance in order to survive.
“The truth is there are people who thrive and people who don’t. That is elemental Darwinian philosophy. There was a time when these people thrived but they can’t rely on that forever. There is a reason the Neanderthals died off and we didn’t. They didn’t evolve and time left them behind, just as it will the people of the Andaman Islands,” said Scrape TV Archaeology analyst Meyer Hernandez. “I guess there’s a melancholy of some sort but they could participate in modern society if they wanted, they have made a choice to go extinct and that goes against everything that makes us human so I say good riddance. The faster they die the better.”
Boa was not survived by anyone.
Emil Uliya, International Correspondent
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