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L. Coyote

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Tue Sep 22, 2015, 12:12 PM Sep 2015

Lost tribe found in Amazon warehouse

Lost tribe found in Amazon warehouse

Secret night filming has revealed for the first time a tribe untouched by civilization living deep within previously unexplored areas of Amazon’s Swansea warehouse.

Nicknamed ‘the pickers’ by anthropologists, they communicate only with grunts and beeps, and appear to live a very basic hunter-gatherer existence – hunting out cardboard boxes and gathering them into piles.

They appear to shun all forms of modern technology. Although everything from Plasma TVs to electronic toothbrushes are available to them in the warehouse, they seem content to keep them sealed within their cardboard boxes – when researchers indicated they should open one of the boxes and explore the contents inside, they reacted with fear, as if there was some great taboo, perhaps the fear of reprisals from a vengeful god. .....
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Lost tribe found in Amazon warehouse (Original Post) L. Coyote Sep 2015 OP
Perplexing. Surely hope there will be an adequate way to protect these innocent people. n/t Judi Lynn Sep 2015 #1
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