Talk:Andamanese

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[edit] Fire

To quote from a CBS News news article, Fate Of Indigenous Tribes Unknown:

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The tribes live the most ancient, nomadic lifestyle known to man, frozen in their Paleolithic past. Many produce fire by rubbing stones. They fish and hunt with bow and arrow, and live in community huts of leaves and straw.

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Khoikhoi 00:20, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Are you sure that this was not said in reference to the Shompen or another indigenous tribe of the Nicobar Islands? It has been a generally accepted tenet of anthropology for a very long time now that the Andamanese did not know any method of creating fire prior to contact with outsiders. Ebizur (talk) 22:34, 28 January 2008 (UTC)