Berries and liver porcupine: the primal diet?
The hadza — one of the last in the world of tribes of hunter-gatherers. Scientists believe that these people live in the North of Tanzania of not less than 40 thousand years, eating berries, roots, and different kinds of mammals.
Correspondent Bi-bi-si Dan Saladino went to see how these people live, and to see if we can all take some lessons from their diet.
Warning: the following photographs produced game can seem cruel.
I lay on my stomach, stuck his head in the hole and sniffed. Smelled like some animal.
I still couldn’t believe that someone’s going in that hole entirely and find this animal.
But Sivaji was going to do just that. He was hunting the porcupine.
For starters, he gave the companion hunting your bow, arrows and a hatchet, then stripped, took up a short pointed stick, and disappeared into the hole.
At first I thought that Sivaji just less growth, and therefore, of course, he reached into the hole.
But the longer I watched, the clearer it became that Sivaji just less than everyone else was afraid of what awaited him in the dungeon — and there could be anything: poisonous snakes, reptiles, fleas or ticks and so on, not to mention the porcupine, the needles of which reach 35 cm in length.
Until diet haddiscoe my diet was exclusively vegetarian — as is often the case among the hadza. Mostly berries, which we picked from the bushes, wandering through the Savannah past the acacia trees through the bushes of dried grass and thorns. Sometimes we found some tubers that were roasted on a fire built quickly.
Very often we ate the fruit of the baobab tree. From the pulp of the fruit, similar to a soft chalk is a drink rich in fibers and vitamin C.
Many decades ago, anthropologists have observed that the hadza are constantly hungry, but not starving. They are ready to eat almost anything — and here they are lucky because they are surrounded by edible plants and animals and know how to find them and what to do with them.
As it turned out, around us was full of food that I didn’t just notice, but which were well aware even 4-year-old hadza.
So, Sivaji disappeared in the depths of Nora — and soon was heard only his muffled voice. He was two meters underground, in the depths of the tunnels and “rooms” dug a porcupine. Hunter tried to touch to understand the structure of this space and reported to his companions outside, where it was necessary to cover the possible ways in which a porcupine might slip away.